Obama's Executive Talent

This is a response to a post that said that Obama's successful campaign shows that he has superior executive talent.

I disagree on several points. The Clinton staff has hardly been incompetent. They have a much more difficult product to sell. Obama is a handsome, vibrant 40-something male, Hillary is a 60 year old woman. Which is easier to sell, a Corvette or an Edsel?

Also, it aint over until it's over. The latest electoral vote polls, which are all that really matter, show BOTH Hillary and Obama losing to McCain by approximately the same number of electoral votes.

In point of fact, Obama's campaign may be very poorly positioned for the general election. In order to win the stupid primaries, he took the strategy of spending time in irrelevant red states. That was quite clever for winning the primary caucuses, but that is totally meaningless in the general election.

Dems aren't going to carry stupid states like Wyoming and Kansas. Meanwhile, he lost BIG in the biggest and most important Democratic and swing states. He lost by so much in California that there's even a possibility that that state could go Republican. Note who the Governor is.

Thru his disenfranchising Florida and Michigan, he has definitely lost Florida, and possibly even Michigan in the general election. These 2 states, the 4th and 8th most populous, control 44 electoral votes, second only to California's 55.

Giving FL and MI the cold shoulder has been an EXTREME error on the part of the Obama campaign. Of course, the only reason that they have done so is because FL and MI were Hillary's state, where Obama got clobbered. So he has been clever, in the short run, in CHEATING Hillary out of those votes. But it will be remembered by us Floridians. We don't like being treated like *****.

There are a lot of other blunders emerging in the Obama camp. He would have been smarter to have kept Wright out of the picture. Wright is going to be a lead bowling ball around his neck for the duration of the campaign, if he is indeed nominated.

Farrakhan is also rearing his ugly, fascistic head. Wright voted Farrakhan man of the year and took a trip to Libya with him. Something the Republicans are going to talk about endlessly. His wife's bigmouth remark about being proud to be an American for the first time in her life. Obama not putting his hand over his heart during the national anthem. Those are things that are not going to go over well in the general election.

Also, I am not convinced that Obama really runs his campaign. He is good at inflaming the masses and filling them with false hope. They go out and do things for him, but are they really what Obama wants them to do?

There isn't much real discipline in his campaign. Just lots of enthusiasm based on his charisma.

There's a saying in the Old Testament that you should not dance on your enemy's grave. Because you may anger God and he will put you in the grave instead. So don't go trashing Hillary's staff as "incompetent" just because they are trying to sell a product that is much harder to sell.

One of the turn-offs of the ObamaManiacs, which has definite negative consequences, is all of their stupid name-calling. Anybody who opposes them gets called names. That is really counter-productive. That puts off many people who would otherwise go to Obama.

If you want to criticize people, then criticize people. But don't just call them doo-doo heads. It doesn't work, and that isn't effective campaigning.


Obama's Executive Talent, or Lack of It:

Actually, Obama has not shown himself to be that strong in executive skills. His main skill is oratory. He can inspire and inflame large numbers of people.

However, one-on-one he is apparently rather incompetent. His one-on-one interaction with people in coffee-shops in Pennsylvania has been criticized by the press. He is rather cool and distant. That does not indicate "executive" talent.

Also, his actual record of results in Congress has been rather dismal. He ain't done much. And he didn't do much in Illinois either.

He's a great speaker, but that is not an indication of executive talent. He is also clever and crafty, which I personally consider to be a good thing. I'm a Machiavellian, not a Boy Scout.

But there hasn't been much evidence of overwhelming executive talent on the part of Obama. He apparently never had any executive talent before.

Let's face it, a good-looking young lawyer like Obama, coming out of Harvard Law, should be worth about $109 million dollars today. But Obama's only worth about a mil. That is no indication of executive talent. If he's so smart, how come he's not rich?