Obama's Amateur Hour

Before BHO became POTUS I opined often at his lack of experience, his inability to maintain a focus, his lack of spine, the empty suit impression and the fear that when the tough times came he would crumble.

Thing's aren't really tough yet, but they will be. Yet he is acting as if he didn't know how HARD being President would be. I hoped he would hire some good people around him. He did but he seems to be tone deaf. Today Kathleen Parker nailed it. To be fair, I have problems with Parker's dismissive attitutude toward Sarah Palin.

On this I tend to agree with her when she says:

The first however-many days of Barack Obama's presidency have been a study in amateurism.

Many suspected that Obama wasn't quite ready, but kept their fingers crossed. Optimistic disappointment is the new holding pattern.

What's missing from Obama's performance isn't the intelligence that voters acknowledged in electing him. It's the experience they tried to pretend didn't really matter. Experienced politicians, after all, got us into this mess.

Absent is maturity -- that grown-up quality of leadership that is palpable when the real deal enters a room. There's a reason why elders are respected. They have something the rest of us don't have -- yet -- because we haven't lived long enough. We haven't made the really tough decisions, the ones that are often unpopular.

There's also a reason why it's lonely at the top. The view is better, but the summit isn't so much a mountaintop as a deserted city.

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