America's First Female President
Just like Bill Clinton was called somewhat unkindly “America's First Black President” an article came out today in the Washington Post written by Kathleen Parker suggesting that Barack Obama has far too many female characteristics in his personality for him to be a strong and effective leader, and that he is “America's First Female President.”
His compulsion to build coalitions and talk it out, rather than stick to his guns and his campaign promises and engage in battle is claimed to be a typically female trait. It makes sense...he was raised by his mother, and he didn't have a good male role model on the scene when he was growing up.
His lack of leadership skills and his passivity fit right into this picture.
I worked in his campaign, but I have since gradually grown less enamored with him. He buckled on single payer health care, then on the even far weaker vigorous government option. The number of people in America who are denied access to health care are now larger than when he got elected. Obama supports the mythical concept “clean coal.” He thinks nuclear energy and off shore oil drilling are far more important than conservation and reducing our energy wastefulness. He supports drilling in sensitive areas environmentally of Alaska which have been closed off in the past.
Barack Obama promised to close down Guantanamo and all the secret prisons, as well as stopping rendition and all torture; he has not done it. He ran as an anti-war candidate, but upon winning he almost immediately increased troop levels in Afghanistan enormously.
His efforts at re-instituting responsible regulation in the banking and financial arenas have been almost a total failure. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker is very unhappy that part of the proposed Obama reform still uses his name, because it has been so vastly watered down as to make it ineffective. Since Obama is in no way an environmentalist, he did not press his people in the executive branch to resume effective regulation of the oil patch or the nuclear industries, any better than he did with the sleeping Wall Street regulators. Cash for clunkers was supposed to get people to move to cars which got significantly better fuel economy, but Obama backed off and compromised and shuffled his feet until in the end it was all almost meaningless.
Mr. Obama claims to be an ex-community organizer, and during the campaign he was portrayed as having the very most liberal voting record of any United States Senator. But his behavior as President is like a wannabe Republican. Of course the Republicans are racists and hate black folks. Especially uppity black folks.
Obama is turning out to be a terrible waste of time for the country. The Republicans are certainly far far worse, and I am not aware of any particularly good Democrats who have the leadership skills and background to be President. I'm sorry to have to say it, but I think Barack Obama will go down in history as a bad leader and a highly ineffective President. He is smarter and more articulate than George Bush Jr., but in the end he will be shown to be much weaker and more ineffective than Jimmy Carter.
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Maybe President Obama should check into starting Testosterone supplements.
LINK: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903997.html?sid=ST2010062904419
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