12 thoughts on “Obama’s Leadership”

  1. If “Obama’s Leadership” isn’t an oxymoron, then I do not understand the meaning of the word.

    1. I learned about leadership in the Army. Obama couldn’t lead me to use the bathroom if I had dysentery. The man is a fraud.

      1. What’s that old 80’s, fake HR listing about leadership, or lack thereof?

        Couldn’t lead a pack of starving wolves to fresh meat.

        Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Barack ‘Barry’ Hussein [Soetero] Obama. It just occurred to me, and why it took so long is a strike against ME, that usually a guy with that many names / handles / aliases has his picture on the wall in the Post Office.

        But NOT as the BOSS!!

  3. One of the things I find most amusing about professional politicians is that they spend their entire lives fighting their way through the political machine to get their chance to become ‘leader of the free world’.

    Then they win the election… and finally have the power they’ve dreamed of for decades… and…

    …play golf.

    In the past, they at least seemed to realise they were President, whereas Obama never seems to stop his election campaign.

    I read a book a few years ago on the study of military incompetence, which it blamed on military leaders having spent most of their life following orders, then suddenly being expected to tell others what to do. I suspect political incompetence has a very similar source.

    1. But unlike military officers, Obama has never taken orders. He11, he’s never even worked a drive-thru.

    2. I can speak for how the Army raises combat leaders. Take your freshly minted butterbar 2Lt. He’ll be put in as a platoon leader, typically having 3 squads under his command and under the “supervision” of an NCO. By the time he makes captain, he could be a company commander in charge of several platoons, up to a couple hundred people, and millions of dollars of equipment. Sure, he still takes orders but he gives a lot of them, too. Assuming he has what it takes, he’ll advance through battalion staff and command positions as his career progresses. By the time he’s a colonel, he could be in command of a brigade or even a division. The Army knows how to grow leaders. From all I’ve read, the Marines grow leaders pretty much the same way as the Army. It’s a proven method. I think the Navy generally follows a similar plan but don’t know for sure.

      Now, I also spent many years in the Air Force, which is a great alternative to military service. In my experience, a captain might have a couple people working for him. A Lt Col. (O-5) might be in command of a squadron. You need serious rank to command a wing. The comment about not knowing how to give orders might apply to the Air Force. In my experience, I had some good bosses but only one or two (out of 13 years service) that approached leadership, at least from this old Army grunt’s perspective.

      Obama has never followed and can’t lead. I know of precious little real world job experience on his part doing any job. As George Turner pointed out, he’s never even worked at a drive-thru.

  4. Having worked for a couple of those freshly minted 2nd LT’s, I can tell you the successful ones always took their cues from the NCO until they knew what the $@&# they were doing. That learning curve was sometimes very long. Many suffered because their bad decisions, but those bad decisions lead the good ones to make better choices.
    There are a lot of parallels here with this president. Not learning from mistakes causes your problems to multiply. He hasn’t reached Jimmy Carter levels yet, that said, he isn’t learning from his mistakes either.

  5. Reply to JJS (this is in mobile mode for some reason or other).

    One of my bosses is a retired Army Colonel. His career began during the height of the Vietnam War. He said that when he arrived at his unit, he saw a corpse in a body bag waiting to be flown out of the area. He asked the NCO where the man he was replacing was and the NCO pointed to the body bag. My boss told the NCO quietly, “You’re in charge until you think I’m ready to be in charge.” The NCO replied, “Good answer.” New 2LTs had a short life expectancy in those days. Obviously, my boss survived so he must’ve been a good student and had a good NCO. He went on to become a Ranger and member of Delta Force. He’s full of many stories and he tells them well. One of the best is his description of leading the force that captured these guys. He also has mentioned operating by himself for several months in Beruit after our CIA guy there (Buckley) was killed. Not bad for a white guy from Lousianna. I’m trying to convince him to write a book. I’m willing to help.

      1. He’s getting old and slow now. He saids, “I used to be hard.” A life like that can wear out anyone’s body. I’m still urging him to write a book. He’s a terrific storyteller and has some fun stories.

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