First, Maureen Dowd of The NY Times, is furious that Pres BO is so passive about everything, from same-sex marriage to the federal budget talks:
But now he is misusing them. It’s not enough to understand how everybody in the room thinks.
You have to decide which ones in the room are right, and stand with them.
A leader is not a mediator or an umpire or a convener or a facilitator."
Let me translate what Maureen Dowd is saying: Be more like Bush! Make decisions and don't worry so much about what everyone thinks of you. We want a leader not a community organizer!
Second, David Gergen of CNN does not understand Pres BO's Afghanistan speech:
"As someone who has seen a lot of military decisions made in the White House, I am accustomed to presidents paying great heed to the views of their commanders on the ground.
In this case, Petraeus was not just the commander on the ground -- he is one of the very best American generals in modern history, a man who has turned around the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
One might think that given his extraordinary success and the great respect in which he is held on Capitol Hill and around the country, Obama would give Petraeus the benefit of the doubt and go with his preferred option."
Dowd & Gergen are both expression frustration with Pres BO's leadership, or lack of leadership.
We need Pres BO to get into the debt discussions. We definitely need Pres BO listening to his generals rather than his Chicago associates.
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