But He Was the Harvard Law Review Editor!

Jennifer Rubin - 02.07.2010 - 8:15 AM
The chattering class was entranced with candidate Barack Obama. So literate. So polished. So cool. We were assured that his lack of executive experience was irrelevant. After all, he ran a campaign. And then there were his years as a community organizer and Harvard Law Review editor, which showed… well… it showed something about his magnificent intellectual skills. But it turns out he lacks some key abilities — executive leadership, decisiveness, deal-making prowess, flexibility, and basic people skills — that are essential to a successful presidency.

This is not simply the conclusion of conservatives. The entire country witnessed his agonizing decision-making process on the Afghanistan war strategy. Now on health-care reform, his own party is frustrated and dismayed with the non-governing president. As this report notes:

President Barack Obama has left Democrats as confused as ever over how the White House plans to deliver a health care reform bill this year, following two weeks of inconsistent statements, negligible hands-on involvement and a sudden shift to a jobs-first message. Democrats on Capitol Hill and beyond say they have no clear understanding of the White House strategy – or even whether there is one – and are growing impatient with Obama’s reluctance to guide them toward a legislative solution.

…And some Democrats feel that every time they look to White House for clarity, they hear something different, as though the strategy is whatever the president or his top advisers said that day.

His floundering is not surprising, considering that Obama never ran a state, a city, or a business, and during his brief time in the U.S. Senate, he was never front-and-center in any significant legislative undertaking. Yes, he’s touted as an author, and he won the presidency (beating two flawed candidates who ran awful campaigns). But it turns out that all this was insufficient preparation to be chief executive and commander in chief.

In 2012, Republicans will look for a standard-bearer to retake the White House. And while a grounding in conservative principles will be essential to winning the nomination, Republican voters might do well to consider what experience and what talents are essential for a successful presidency. They might look for candidates who have done something – other than graduating from Ivy League schools, writing memoirs, and giving frothy speeches. By 2012, the country might be ready for someone who knows how to get something done.

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: incompetence; inexperience; intellect; obama; pseudointellectual


1 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:46:51 PM by Scanian
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To: Scanian
Moogly, the man-cub, strikes out...



2 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:51:28 PM by The Wizard (I support Madam President, the only President in America today)
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To: Scanian
Not that it really matters at this point...but I think the appointment at Harvard Law Review was just an arranged resume-builder and nothing else. They actually have hired people (paid staff) who do the real management of the Review, and there are apparently some professors in the background to ensure things don’t get screwed up.

You can go back and ask anyone before the Law Review appointment....about any experience with any school newspaper (even in high school), and you get the impression that he never was involved with any paper forum.

From the prospective of management or executive or team-leader experience...from the past dozen presidents...I’d say the President is likely at the bottom of the list. I’d even give Jimmy Carter several plus points because of his Navy background and governor period. Bill Clinton has his period as governor of Arkansas as a plus point. I’d have to go back to Woodrow Wilson to find another guy with similar background to President Obama.



3 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:56:00 PM by pepsionice
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To: null and void; metmom; Impy; MeekOneGOP; molybdenum; TigersEye
Corpse-men in all fifty seven states think he’s the greatest. They inflate their tires in honor of BO.



4 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:56:05 PM by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Scanian
The keywords you selected for this post say it all :)



5 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:56:20 PM by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines 66-67 (That's Corpsman, not Corpseman))
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To: The Wizard
MAO-bama was literally an empty suit without any professional accomplishments or executive leadership experience. Add his relationships with terrorists, marxists & racists, the lapdog media worked overtime to hide his flaws and intellectual shallowness.



6 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:56:39 PM by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Scanian
The chattering class was entranced with candidate Barack Obama.





7 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:57:56 PM by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: pepsionice
A stinking rat is a stinking rat. I rate them all at the sewer level.
Jimmy Carter? Anti-semite and economic disaster. Of course, yes — even the peanut farmer can look down on BO now. I’ll give you that.

Bill Clinton:

Another Pardon, Another Controversy
http://speakout.com/activism/news/5653-1.html
Hugh Rodham [Hillary’s brother] received a contingency fee in connection with a pardon ... a scheme to distribute 800 pounds of crack cocaine



8 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 7:59:54 PM by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Scanian
from the article:
They might look for candidates who have done something – other than graduating from Ivy League schools, writing memoirs, and giving frothy speeches.

Sarah Palin has actually DONE SOMETHING but she is still being trashed as an idiot.

The dumb-assed American people voted for an Affirmative Action, communist con man with no experience.

They deserve him and I hope he keeps shafting those fools until the next presidential election.

Give the American people what they asked for and GIVE IT TO THEM HARD!

I have no sympathy for a stupid people who thought the last presidential election was a political version of American Idol.

Elections matter. Hitler was elected.


9 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:05:50 PM by NoControllingLegalAuthority (As Wichita falls so falls Wichita Falls)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Corpse-men in all fifty seven states think he’s the greatest.

but he did know about 'the bomb' they dropped on Pearl Harbor!

10 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:16:29 PM by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: ComputerGuy
I always try to make them pertinent ;-)



11 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:17:22 PM by Scanian
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To: Scanian
mugabe II.

LLS



12 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:23:23 PM by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: pepsionice
I’d have to go back to Woodrow Wilson to find another guy with similar background to President Obama.
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Woodrow Wilson was the President (chief executive) of Princeton University for many years before being President of the US, and then was Governor of New Jersey.



13 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:28:18 PM by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: paulycy
Great quote by Churchill.



14 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:29:50 PM by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
The dumb-assed American people voted for an Affirmative Action, communist con man with no experience.

They deserve him and I hope he keeps shafting those fools until the next presidential election.
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You live in Tennessee, so aren’t you one of “those” that are being shafted? Not to nitpick, I get your anger, but when you are in a lifeboat and a lunatic starts to put holes in the bottom of the lifeboat . . . isn’t it your problem as well as the lunatics?



15 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:33:06 PM by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: Scanian
How Much did the Saudi Prince pay for the education for the Haaarvard training - wheeled Preschooler of the United States? So this same Prince has invested in Fox News. Has anybody else noticed how some of the people on Fox now are criticizing Palin, but praising of the POTUS for being more bipartisan(BS). Is Fox changing to be part of the LSM formerly (MSM)?



16 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:39:49 PM by hondact200 (hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan destroyed by Progressive Liberal Populism)
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To: Scanian
But He Was the Harvard Law Review Editor!
No he wasn't.

He was "president" of the Law Review.

I'm surprised that Rubin and the Commentary editors would get this wrong.


17 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:48:07 PM by ml/nj
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To: Scanian
I think the problem these folks have with running the Executive Branch is that doing so is really boring. You have to take one or two ideas and just flog the heck out of them, for years and years and years, just to get a few things done. It is a long, grinding, repetitive process. It is not about brilliance or intelligence or style. It is about persistence and determination.
These Obama fellas want to flit from flower to flower. They want to touch things with the magic wands of their dazzling intellect and instantly transform them. They are dumbfounded when the things they want to change stubbornly stay the same. They don't want to admit to themselves that the path to a successful Presidency is to find a rock small enough to move, and to push on that one rock for eight long, tiring years.

These guys thought they would get Health Care, Card Check, Cap & Trade and Porkulus all within the First Hundred Days. One wonders what they left themselves for the next two thousand eight hundred and twenty two.


18 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:49:41 PM by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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To: pepsionice
Part of the problem is that some people who couldn’t get into Ivy League schools - libs, anyway - tend to glorify those institutions in their minds.

I realize things are different today and security is tighter but back in the early ‘70’s, a buddy and I spent a couple days in Boston sneaking into classes at Harvard by day to see what was so great about the place and drinking in Irish bars by night.

I was more impressed by the bar conversations, personally.



19 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:52:23 PM by Scanian
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To: Haiku Guy
They had been itching to enact that liberal agenda for years and when they had the chance to take power with huge congressional majorities, they couldn’t resist the impulse to try to ram it through for all they were worth.

The Obamanoids knew the people would hate their legislation so they acted with breakneck speed to get it done before the folks woke up. Too bad for them that both communication and the attention level of the voting public had improved considerably by 2009.



20 posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 8:57:32 PM by Scanian