obama has realized that whatever he does, it's wrong, so he's opting to do nothing further in his presidebtcy. He'll play golf, go on vacation and the nation can just coast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/u...idden-hand-approach.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
The essence of Eisenhowers hidden hand, of course, is that there was real work going on that people didnt know at the time. If thats true now, then Obama really is emulating Ike. If, on the other hand, hes simply doing nothing or very little, that would be passivity, not hidden-hand leadership.
Mr. Obama has learned through hard experience that responding to news media pressure for his views on the latest news can be hazardous. He discovered that months after taking office, when his reaction to the arrest of an black Harvard professor in his own home stirred controversy. The perils came home again more recently, when sharp comments he made about court-martialing members of the military accused of sexual assault provided ammunition to defense lawyers, who called that improper interference.
Its not his job to narrate current events for the public, Mr. Pfeiffer said. It can complicate an already complicated situation.
Mr. Pfeiffer said an exercise in lessons learned, conducted when he became communications director early in the first term, showed that Mr. Obama was talking in public too much. What we saw from that is if youre talking about everything all the time, its harder for the public to distinguish the things that are most important, he said.
In other words, obama doesn't know what he's doing so it's best that he does nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/u...idden-hand-approach.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
The essence of Eisenhowers hidden hand, of course, is that there was real work going on that people didnt know at the time. If thats true now, then Obama really is emulating Ike. If, on the other hand, hes simply doing nothing or very little, that would be passivity, not hidden-hand leadership.
Mr. Obama has learned through hard experience that responding to news media pressure for his views on the latest news can be hazardous. He discovered that months after taking office, when his reaction to the arrest of an black Harvard professor in his own home stirred controversy. The perils came home again more recently, when sharp comments he made about court-martialing members of the military accused of sexual assault provided ammunition to defense lawyers, who called that improper interference.
Its not his job to narrate current events for the public, Mr. Pfeiffer said. It can complicate an already complicated situation.
Mr. Pfeiffer said an exercise in lessons learned, conducted when he became communications director early in the first term, showed that Mr. Obama was talking in public too much. What we saw from that is if youre talking about everything all the time, its harder for the public to distinguish the things that are most important, he said.
In other words, obama doesn't know what he's doing so it's best that he does nothing.
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