Open Letter to My Friend Les Rosen
That is a fascinating piece of history, Les. And we agree but for difference reasons. Obama is very weak as a negotiator, and his leadership skills can be justifiably questioned by extension, but basically he is a very smart, decent guy who tried to hit the ground running unlike Bush 43 whose presidency was simply disastrous. The other piece you're missing is racism. Many people do not like Obama because he is black. Their criticism is couched in coded terms like "incompetent," though. Conventional wisdom likens him to Jimmy Carter, an equally smart peanut farmer from Georgia with an engineering degree from Annapolis, whose single term was marred by crises after crises. Your assessment of how Obama came out of nowhere upsetting the proverbial [powerful Clinton political machine] apple cart is point on. They repaid him in kind by lending loyal Clinton staffers to his administration without any of the bonds that typically characterize such high level, critical even, appoint