Political Lipskip

Obama is Not a Leader – Fascination at Executive Incompetence

Sometimes you find the best analysis of a situation from the oddest places. I’ve been fascinated at the absolute incompetence of our president. I knew from the start he was not a leader, he’s never held a position of authority in his life. But he is the chosen one so what do I know. A column on Phil’s Stock World discusses Obama tipping the jobs number Friday  as being a good one. His speech at Carnegie Mellon declared the economic recovery on track, blah, blah, blah. I found this article politically insightful:

Obama gave a longish speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh today blaming most of the problems in the US on the Republicans and a few greedy Banks, extolling the fine reforms in healthcare and the financial system that he has been able to push through despise the minority opposition, and recalcitrant leftish supporters, after he saved the country by the unfortunate but unavoidably necessary bank bailouts.

He speech sounded good. And if you do not look too closely at what is going on, and how things are being run, and the lack of actual reform, you might have had a feel good moment. It was about as effectively staged as the case that George W made to the American people for the invasion of Iraq. And it was probably just as phony and self-serving.

I come away feeling that Lincoln had it exactly right. There will be a die hard group who will never lose faith in their party, or any of their chosen leaders, and will find desperate comfort in partisan blindness.

But the great majority of the American people are waking up, and that spells trouble in the November elections for most incumbent politicians. So the pace and velocity of the spin will have to be adjusted. Hence the speech today. And the outlook for the tortured American economic system, and the official descriptions of it.

In other words, it will be tough to believe anything D.C. has to say as it will be tightly spun to try to avoid the massive carnage awaiting for incumbents, hopefully on both sides, in November. Honestly I hope the voter wrath in November is impressive and totally destructive to the system in place in Washington. Leaders don’t blame others for their problems. They find solutions for the problems today. But the statists prefer to be victims. So every day they continue to blame Republicans and the prior administration for their problems. It’s pathetic. Obama is not a leader. He has no idea how to govern. He is a figurehead that can read a speech well. 2012 cannot come soon enough.

Dick Morris wrote an interesting article on The Hill on Obama’s incompetence:

Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis.

…the president acts like a spectator, interrupting his basketball games only to excoriate BP for its failure to contain the spill.

…Conservatives may dislike Obama because he is a leftist. But liberals are coming to dislike him because he is not a competent progressive.

…the truth begins to dawn on all of us: Obama has no more idea how to work his way out of the economic mess into which his policies have plunged us than he does about how to clean up the oil spill that is destroying our southern coastline.

Both the financial crisis and the oil come ever closer to our shores — one from the east and the other from the south — and, between them, they loom as a testament to the incompetence of our government and of its president.

And, oddly, to his passivity as well. After pursuing a remarkably activist, if misguided and foolhardy, agenda, Obama seems not to know what to do and finds himself consigned to the roles of observer and critic.

America is getting the point that its president doesn’t have a clue.

Makes sense to me but I’m partisan and do not care for Obama’s policies.  I’ve said all along Obama would not be an effective leader as he had no executive experience. Now we are all suffering for it.