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Posted By pc25 7 months ago in NewsLet the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast!
The primary job requirement of a good senior executive is the ability to judge character and ability, in order to be able to select people to whom responsibilities may be safely delegated. If these advisors and staff are inadequate, the responsibility for their failures should be laid at the feet of the person who was ultimately responsible for their selection and placement.
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pc257 months ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/08/paglia-obama...
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Paglia: Obama’s floundering
Camille Paglia takes aim at Barack Obama in responding to correspondents at Salon today. Not only does she blast Obama for a series of embarrassing gaffes, including the bow to King Abdullah, she blames the media for letting him off the hook. The result? A boon for Republicans (via Instapundit):-
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pc257 months ago
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Obama’s staffing problems are blatant — from that bleating boy of a treasury secretary to what appears to be a total vacuum where a chief of protocol should be. There has been one needless gaffe after another — from the president’s tacky appearance on a late-night comedy show to the kitsch gifts given to the British prime minister, followed by the sweater-clad first lady’s over-familiarity with the queen and culminating in the jaw-dropping spectacle of a president of the United States bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia. Why was protest about the latter indignity confined to conservatives? The silence of the major media was a disgrace. But I attribute that embarrassing incident not to Obama’s sinister or naive appeasement of the Muslim world but to a simple if costly breakdown in basic command of protocol. …
Whether the Obama presidency succeeds or fails will depend on his ability to sustain his ideals in the face of the testing crises that will inevitably erupt in far-flung regions where ethnic or religious strife has been a way of life for thousands of years. And closer to home, Obama will need to cut the umbilical to his hometown posse, whose inefficiency and poor decision-making took the shine off his honeymoon and brought the dispirited Republicans back from the dead.
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pc257 months ago
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the Obama administration
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the model of efficiency
http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/washington/200...
The White House press corps is stranded in Istanbul.
Originally scheduled to depart for home soon after President Obama and Air Force One took off Tuesday afternoon, the press corps stayed behind, first to file stories on Obama’s Turkey visit, then a little later to file stories on Obama’s secret trip to Baghdad. -
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pc257 months ago
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White House: Bow? What bow?
The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.
“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Washington Times called it the alleged bow a “shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate,” and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted, that American protocol apparently rules out bowing, or at least it reportedly did on the occasion of a Clinton “near bow” to the Emperor of Japan.
Interestingly, a columnist in the Saudi-backed Arabic paper Asharq Alawsat also took the gesture as a bow, and appreciated the move.
fess up O sure as hell looked like a bow. -
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pc257 months ago
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A TALE OF 2 BOWS - STARRING BARACK OBAMA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJtIss7xso
No bow? You tell me. Obama’s a lot taller than Queen Elizabeth, too, so compare the two greetings for yourself:Originally, the excuse that had gotten floated around the media was that Obama was picking something off the floor. This video pretty much destroys that excuse: -
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Wolfie20077 months ago
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The author of this piece says they still believe in Obama's vision. Which vision would that be the one about hope and change or the the one where he taxes our azzes off because of climate change? Or his vision of how difficult it's going to be and we'll just have to suffer and do it to save the planet. Even if he bankrupts our country and enslave future generations of Americans into debt.
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If the United States of America is destroyed, then as far as I'm concerned the planet can go to hades as it won't be a fit place to live any longer anyway.-
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nostalgia7 months ago
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Where are all of the environmentalists on this?
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Obama to Look at Climate Engineering
he president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.
John Holdren told the Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Mr. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123920773503201665...
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nostalgia7 months ago
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If these advisors and staff are inadequate, the responsibility for their failures should be laid at the feet of the person who was ultimately responsible for their selection and placement.
Charles
Pennsylvania
You are absolutely correct! The buck stops with the top executive. But we all know how little executive experience Barack Obama has had. He was elected for his vision and his steady, deliberative character, not his résumé. For better or worse, Obama is learning as he goes -- and surely most fair-minded people would grant him reasonable leeway as he grows into the presidency, one of the hardest jobs in the world.
We all know that he brought the thugocracy from Chicago to the White House. What else would you expect from these advisers? -
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slate7 months ago
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What constitutes a 'nod'? Many men shake hands and give that lil 'nod' we are all accustomed to seeing.
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What constitutes a bow? I'd say, when your head ends up 'level' with the persons waist line, it would move past the 'nod' definition into the bow definition wouldn't you? -
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