Obama's Leadership Qualities
On occasion I do listen to MPR and on my commute home I happened to of listened to an interview with Ralph Nader. The interview was about Nader's new book in which the ultra rich in America get together to push the US into a socialist's Utopian society. It's clear to me Nader's dream is that America becomes a communist nation. At the end of the interview the question was asked what Ralph Nader thinks of President Obama. I have to say I was shocked by the answer but I see his point.
The interviewer was clearly not expecting the answer he received because like most people on MPR, he clearly is infatuated with the president. Nader's answer to the question was he questioned Obama's courage to lead and felt he wasn't qualified to be president. He stated that Obama avoided conflict in his political career and felt Obama's abandonment of the public option in the heath care reform was a clear example of this behavior.
I think that Obama is definitely taking a back sit to the most controversial legislature being proposed. You don't see him coming out with a proposal, standing beside any bill and leading the charge. It really feels to me like he is sitting back and putting all the pressure on Congress to come up with some bill for him to sign. This isn't Barak Obama's Cap and Trade or Stimulus bill, it's other people driving these bills through congress.
Is this a bad position to take? Not really because if the bill fails it's not really his plan. Obama is letting Congress do what it should be doing which is create legislature. I do not believe Obama is working behind the scenes to get any bills passed. I think Nader's comments are interesting but it's clear that Obama isn't living up to the extreme left's dreams. Hopefully history will repeat itself and a Republican congress will return at midterm to bring the country back from the brink of socialism.
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