Saturday, January 9, 2010

Obama is right: "the buck stops" there

Today's Post says President Obama is running a one man show and his last speech (with lots of "I ordered" this and "my cabinet" that) is proof.

Maybe President Obama is a private tyrant. I don't know how his cabinet operates internally -- and no one in the public will know until the memoirs come out in a decade or so.

But saying "I" and "my" was not arrogance. It was taking personal responsibility for his administration's actions. And I say good for him!
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1 comment:

CanadianSense said...

MI is doing worse than Dion.


On the “beer” question, Layton (29%) is clearly ahead of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (16%), Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe (10%) and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (6%).

The NDP leader also garners the largest proportion of mentions for serving as a babysitter (22%) and being on a respondent’s own sports team (22%).

Ignatieff was selected by 25 per cent of respondents as a partner on a trivia quiz team, and 22 per cent say the Liberal leader would provide a good recommendation on a book to read.

Harper leads as the preferred person to deal with a terrorist attack (36%), negotiate with U.S. President Barack Obama on trade and security issues (33%), negotiate with Russia over arctic sovereignty (32%), face a new Quebec referendum (29%), and represent the country at the next round of climate change talks (25%, followed by Layton with 22%).

About half of Canadians say they are not interested in reading the memoirs of the four party leaders, watching them on a reality television show, or finding out what they were like in high school.

http://www.visioncritical.com/2010/01/three-in-ten-canadians-would-prefer-to-have-a-beer-with-jack-layton/