After been sick for over a week, I must be feeling better. While fixing my wife some tea I was thinking about President Obama's leadership style and how to describe it. That he does not have an eye for details is evidenced by his putting his full faith in Congress to draft and pass the "stimulus" bill without input from his administration. The same "stimulus" bill that Obama said would define his presidency, he left to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Now, what he is calling the centerpiece of his presidency, health care reform, is being handled in the same manner.
I was thinking, is President Obama like a musher, whipping Congress like a pack of dogs along the frozen ground. Then I thought of how he handled the health care issue in August, that despite repeated calls for leadership by Congressional Democrats, he let that bill flounder and die in August and his own self-imposed deadline pass. Clearly that is not the case.
No, President Obama is like a drunken 1600's sea captain who gathers his men aboard his ship and cries out that they must reach the new world, then leaves it to the deck hands to figure out where that is and how to get there.
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