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Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style
"President Obama needs to reflect on whatever is driving his compromised approach to leadership. He will no doubt accomplish many good things in his four or eight years in office, in part because there is so much damage from the preceding administration to undo, and with a Republican Party in complete disarray, he will no doubt accomplish incremental change we can believe in if that's really what he wants to take to the voters in 2012.
But if he does not change course, he is on the path to being known as the first black president -- nothing more, nothing less -- a solid caretaker on the order of Dwight Eisenhower, who tinkered around the edges of the ideology of the last visionary president, FDR, the way Obama is tinkering around the edges of the last game-changing president, Ronald Reagan.
With his extraordinary intellect and his ability to speak to people's hopes and aspirations, this president has the capacity to be the transformative leader we all thought we were electing. But if he wants to be known for giving eloquent speeches followed up by field goals where he could have had touchdowns, he is well on his way to the thirty yard line.
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Hope and History | Advocate.com
Really, this is so reasonable, and so close to my opinions on the subject of teh gays vs Obama, I have trouble believing it's from the Advocate.
Op-Ed Contributor - Please Raise My Taxes - NYTimes.com
Instead of trying to shame companies and executives, the president should take advantage of our success by using our outsized earnings to pay for the needs of our nation.
No shoes thrown at Obama | Salon News
Obama and his speechwriters, though, had scoured holy texts of the three religions that were founded in the Middle East. And he seemed content to let his closing words answer his most aggressive critics. Quoting from the Koran, the Talmud and the Bible, he called for peace. "The people of the world can live together in peace," he said. "We know that is God's vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth. Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you."
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