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LadyEllen -> Obama - failure, but change is coming (1/22/2010 1:48:11 PM)
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After a year of disappointing progress towards the change that was expected I contend that Obama has failed so far only due to a degree of naivity on his part that compares well with the scale of expectation placed upon him.
I contend that it has been his collegiate approach - something which may have served him well previously - that has undermined him as president, a position in which strong leadership rather than a cooperative approach is expected. I contend also that this approach on his part has not served to change the approach of others in congress, who have rather seen it as a green light to continue, indeed heighten their partisan self interested behaviours, the culpability for which when the American people observe it, is perceived to lie at the White House frontdoor.
I contend also that we may expect to see real change at the White House on this account in the very near future. A change in approach towards telling rather than asking, instructing rather than suggesting, directing rather than proposing. In other words I contend Obama has learned a great lesson - that a strong leader is respected and criticised only for his failures, whereas a weak leader is regarded as a joke and condemned for every failure that others might pin to him.
Obama was elected due to widespread public anger and the perception that he was a new broom in a deeply divided nation. In trying to sweep clean, changing the business as usual agenda, he has run aground as the congress refused change and went back to its everyday ways. Obama will no longer put up with this rubbish, just as the people will not; he is not foolish enough to ignore the ongoing malaise.
I contend that the change that was expected is coming, by way of a change in approach that will make heads spin - first and foremost in the Democratic party in the congress.
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