Comments on: Obama ‘Working the Refs’

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:47:19 +0000

If Obama is talking to them in an academic sense, I’m o.k. with that. I suspect though that he is using flattery of a presidential visit and what not to get the writers on his side. It is hard to write something nasty about someone you like or owe a favor to. It has little to do with the merits of his arguments.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:24:31 +0000

For good or ill (or perhaps both) Obama is an intellectual.

This is an ill--intellectuals tend to be elite liberals who care more about arugula than America.

This is why we need Joe the Plumber in charge. He isn't hampered by all that fancy-pants book-learning that plagues Hussein.

By: JKB

JKB — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:37:32 +0000

All well and good, I suppose but not when the excuse for blowing off the PM of Great Britain is that they are tired and overwhelmed. Also, not a good image since Obama is increasing being seen as fiddling while the stock market burns.

Leadership is about prioritizing attention. What has the leader's attention is what gets done.

If he turns it around, this seeking out good opinion will be forgotten but if not...

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:09:25 +0000

Preparing the battlefield is always a good plan.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:55:40 +0000

Assuming the press and pundits push him to defend his ideas, this is a net positive. If he is a true intellectual, he will want his ideas challenged and will incorporate other's arguments.

Steve