Beginning the autopsy on Obama administration decision-making disasters
Jan 22, 2016 09:40:21 #
A long process beginning as a former key cabinet officer speaks out forcefully.
I hope to live long enough to see the Obama administrations disastrous track record objectively evaluated. The overwhelming media support Obama has received, combined with his demographic characteristics, personal charm, winning smile, sense of humor, and comedy timing, has kept his level of public esteem far above the merits of his p**********l decisions.
As his second term winds down, some t***h-tellers are beginning to emerge and discuss the quality of decision-making they experienced. Among the first is Robert Gates. Aaron Kliegman reports in the Free Beacon:
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that President Obama thinks he is smarter than his advisers and that he surrounds himself with people who will not question his views. As a result, the White House has struggled to develop and implement effective strategy during the Obama administration, according to Gates.
You know, the president is quoted as having said at one point to his staff, I can do every one of your jobs better than you can, Gates said on MSNBCs Morning Joe.
Oh my God, host Joe Scarborough said.
Gates statement was in response to Scarborough, who asked, President Obama has actually been criticized for always thinking hes the smartest guy in the room Did Barack Obama always think he was the smartest guy in the room?
Video: http://youtu.be/pDHireIp2Zk
As someone who studied and taught group decision-making at Harvard Business School (as well as a non-i***t with a few scraps of common sense), I can attest that this is the worst possible way to go about reaching collective decisions. The entire idea of such an approach is to bring together diverse information, experiences, and perspectives; weigh them; and reach a conclusion reflecting more considerations than one person could bring to the table.
So how did Obama come to such a level of arrogance?
One answer must be doting grandparents who raised him in the absence of both parents (who had better things to do with their lives). They must have consoled him with stories that he was very, very special. Perhaps, as dedicated l*****ts, possibly c*******ts, they saw him with a historic mission ahead as a member of the group, African-Americans, that the CPUSA identified as the revolutionary vanguard in America.
As fate would have it, young Barack Obama entered the educational system of the United States at the precise moment when a desperate need to atone for past sins led to the lionization of black students who showed promise, and a corresponding reluctance to criticize them. This sort of condescension is r****t at its heart, anchored in an unspoken belief in racial inferiority, but it masquerades as righteous anti-r****m.
This is all speculation, of course. But something has to explain such an intellectually inadequate man rising to the level of responsibility Barack Obama achieved.
On second thought, I am very unlikely to live long enough to see any of this honestly and fairly appraised.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/beginning_the_autopsy_on_obama_administration_decisionmaking_disasters.html#ixzz3xz5GWWs2
I hope to live long enough to see the Obama administrations disastrous track record objectively evaluated. The overwhelming media support Obama has received, combined with his demographic characteristics, personal charm, winning smile, sense of humor, and comedy timing, has kept his level of public esteem far above the merits of his p**********l decisions.
As his second term winds down, some t***h-tellers are beginning to emerge and discuss the quality of decision-making they experienced. Among the first is Robert Gates. Aaron Kliegman reports in the Free Beacon:
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that President Obama thinks he is smarter than his advisers and that he surrounds himself with people who will not question his views. As a result, the White House has struggled to develop and implement effective strategy during the Obama administration, according to Gates.
You know, the president is quoted as having said at one point to his staff, I can do every one of your jobs better than you can, Gates said on MSNBCs Morning Joe.
Oh my God, host Joe Scarborough said.
Gates statement was in response to Scarborough, who asked, President Obama has actually been criticized for always thinking hes the smartest guy in the room Did Barack Obama always think he was the smartest guy in the room?
Video: http://youtu.be/pDHireIp2Zk
As someone who studied and taught group decision-making at Harvard Business School (as well as a non-i***t with a few scraps of common sense), I can attest that this is the worst possible way to go about reaching collective decisions. The entire idea of such an approach is to bring together diverse information, experiences, and perspectives; weigh them; and reach a conclusion reflecting more considerations than one person could bring to the table.
So how did Obama come to such a level of arrogance?
One answer must be doting grandparents who raised him in the absence of both parents (who had better things to do with their lives). They must have consoled him with stories that he was very, very special. Perhaps, as dedicated l*****ts, possibly c*******ts, they saw him with a historic mission ahead as a member of the group, African-Americans, that the CPUSA identified as the revolutionary vanguard in America.
As fate would have it, young Barack Obama entered the educational system of the United States at the precise moment when a desperate need to atone for past sins led to the lionization of black students who showed promise, and a corresponding reluctance to criticize them. This sort of condescension is r****t at its heart, anchored in an unspoken belief in racial inferiority, but it masquerades as righteous anti-r****m.
This is all speculation, of course. But something has to explain such an intellectually inadequate man rising to the level of responsibility Barack Obama achieved.
On second thought, I am very unlikely to live long enough to see any of this honestly and fairly appraised.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/beginning_the_autopsy_on_obama_administration_decisionmaking_disasters.html#ixzz3xz5GWWs2
Jan 22, 2016 09:46:29 #
JMHO wrote:
b A long process beginning as a former key cabine... (show quote)
There are many who "see it" & agree with you!
Jan 23, 2016 11:57:00 #
JMHO wrote:
b A long process beginning as a former key cabine... (show quote)
Robert Gates entire statement on this subject and not some right wing rags piece mill fragmented posting.
"The president is quoted as saying one time to his staff that he could 'do every one of your jobs better than you can,'" said Gates. "I don't see the kind of strong people around the president who will push back on him. I give him credit, I pushed back on him a lot, he never shut me down, never told me to be quiet, never refused to see me. I don't see people like that around him now."
When asked for key strengths in recent presidencies, Gates said that Obama is willing to make tough decisions; George W. Bush was courageous in taking on serious problems, such as with the 9/11 attacks, and George H.W. Bush had the unifying ability to bring together large coalitions, but he doesn't think any of the wide slate of candidates running for the presidency has those sk**ls."
Newsmax January 19, 2016
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