Obama Unprofessional?
I heard a recent complaint about how Obama has nothing a true president would need, a true leader would need. In fact, according to her, he had many very unleaderlike (that’s a word now) qualities. She also finished her comment with several less-than-friendly terms for the president, which I have decidedly chosen to omit.
First, she said Obama shouldn’t be working on a basketball bracket while at work. Unless she spends every waking moment at work, I don’t think she should fault anyone else for doing something they enjoy during their downtime.
Second, she says it is irresponsible to call people “sweetie” in the workplace. I find this interesting because the president has yet to say “sweetie” in the White House (with the possible exception of his wife). As I recall, the last recorded person he called “sweetie” was a reporter who was trying to interview him In early May, 2008.
Third, she says that anybody who had made jokes about the Special Olympics would be fired in any other situation. I disagree. Most, though not all, bosses would ignore it altogether, or even laugh themselves. The Special Olympics has reached a point in American society, for better or worse, where it is respected enough that most people feel it is safe to make a joke. After all, nearly everyone would agree that Congress is an important and irreplaceable body of the U.S. government, but that won’t stop people from poking fun at it.
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wrote on 27 March 2009 at 20:39
The comments this woman makes are so riddiculous, they should just be ignored.
However, given that we live in a country who needs 24 hour cable news stations, and, given that those stations can only survive and get viewersip by dramatizing every comma in a speech (and I mean acting like bad drama queens who need to make Everests out of ant hills), it is not surprising that someone has to make a drama out of man who is uniquely more qualifid to be leader of this country than every Republican president from Reagan onward, and more conciliatory and bi-partisan than the Democrats since then also. He has everything we would ever want of a great leader: great oratory skill that are backed up by a solid character and solid facts, empathy, a willingness to listen and engage people of other opinions (a virtue the Repulicans have lacked for decades), a laserlike intensiy to concentrate on what is important, an almost uncanny ability to view overwhelming problems and crises as challenges rather than distractions and sheer horror, the support of a large part of the electorate, and even the love of a large portion of the American people.
No wonder the Republicans (who I think this woman must have been) are sh*#@ing in their pants.
Having said all that, let me just answer the first allegation: I don’t think there is a medical or mental health professional on this planet that would not tell you that you HAVE TO take time-outs from the stresses of your job, or you will, actually, die. I don’t think President Obama does enough of that. In the first 64 days of his presidency,he has accomplished, tackled and done more and insituted more sweeping changes than the last person in the White House in 8 years (if you discount the road to hell we were put on fighting illegal wars, wiretappings, torture etc.). Taking time out from this incredible job he is doing, to work on basketball brackets (!), is so laugably little, it astonishes me it even got reported.
What the reporter should have done to her and any Republican who ever DARES to question this president’s work ethic is asking them to document how many ACTUAL DAYS Bush was in the White House, vs. on his ranch in Texas, and how many ACTUAL HOURS he worked during the time he was in the Whtie House. We know that Bush spent the majority of his days either in Crawford or doing nothing in the White House. Those are facts. Cheney did the work. Of course, Bush didn’t have the intelectual capacity to do it and that is not a secret either. It is shamful beyond belief that the press never reported on this for all 8 years of the Bush Administration. Americans were asked to work harder, while Bush bicycled (and badly at that) in Crawford. Shame on you, Republicans!