Obama as Manager. How's He Doin'?

In a recent comment Bax made an excellent point: "They have the power, they need to manage it."

I think in assessing Obama's management skills, as measured by his results so far, any candid viewer would have to say "He sucks!"

The global promise was "Change." He packaged it as "Change We Can Believe In." Nice promise and good idea. I like visionaries.

Now then, here comes the hard part: actually doing something. He did do some things that he promised he would do. He announced closing Gitmo. Turns out that managing the process is harder than making the promise and Gitmo isn't closed and I wouldn't want to have to forecast when it will be.

He did go around apologizing to the world, and the people of the world seem to feel good about him, but measuring a benefit of any consequence (accepting Gitmo Guys, for instance, or providing increased support in Afghanistan, or helping to arm-twist the Iranis) is hard to do. Getting results is hard.

But the biggest and most collosal management failure is Obamacare. He had an overwhelming majority in the House, a bulletproof majority in the Senate and, after one full year in office he has wasted his honeymoon good will, alienated HIS OWN BASE!!! not to mention the vast amjority of Independents, and, because of the emphasis on this failed mission, has gotten essentially nothing else done.

Mangement is about the allocation of resources towards problems and producing results that improve the prior situation. He should have been unstoppable, BUT (and many of us pointed this out during the campaign) he has never been responsible for a meaningful outcome in his life, other than a political campaign. He is a fantastic failure, so far, as a manager. Period. And don't blame Pelosi and Reid. They are the ones he chose to delegate to. He owns that decision and the consequences of that decision. Wrap you head around this thought: I want change, so I'm going to entrust my most important initiative to Nancy and Harry. wow.

I take no satisfaction in his incompetence. He has three years to go, and I am sure that the good guys and the bad guys around the world can also see that he is a management dofus.

Here's a simple question: Who's afraid of Obama? I am concerned that the answer is, Not our enemies. Even worse, I am concerned that the people who now fear Obama are our friends. Would you want to count on him if you were our friend in Pakistan? Afghanistan? Ukraine? Belarus? etc, etc.

He is a management moron, and we are all in trouble because of it.

Hags