How to be the President – Learning on the Job
A very insightful article on the Obama Presidency thus far.
While proud of his record, Obama has already begun thinking about what went wrong — and what he needs to do to change course for the next two years. He has spent what one aide called “a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0†with his new interim chief of staff, Pete Rouse, and his deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina. During our hour together, Obama told me he had no regrets about the broad direction of his presidency. But he did identify what he called “tactical lessons.†He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat.†He realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects†when it comes to public works. Perhaps he should not have proposed tax breaks as part of his stimulus and instead “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts†so it could be seen as a bipartisan compromise. -Peter Baker The New York Times
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How to be the President – Learning on the Job
A very insightful article on the Obama Presidency thus far.
While proud of his record, Obama has already begun thinking about what went wrong — and what he needs to do to change course for the next two years. He has spent what one aide called “a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0†with his new interim chief of staff, Pete Rouse, and his deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina. During our hour together, Obama told me he had no regrets about the broad direction of his presidency. But he did identify what he called “tactical lessons.†He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat.†He realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects†when it comes to public works. Perhaps he should not have proposed tax breaks as part of his stimulus and instead “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts†so it could be seen as a bipartisan compromise. -Peter Baker The New York Times
For the full article…
This entry was posted on Monday, October 18th, 2010 at 3:43 PM. It is filed under POLITICS and tagged with Election, Obama, Politics, social commentary, The Obama Presidency. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.