Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010 – Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
What’s costing the president are three things: a laissez faire style of leadership that appears weak and removed to everyday Americans, a failure to articulate and defend any coherent ideological position on virtually anything, and a widespread perception that he cares more about special interests like bank, credit card, oil and coal, and health and pharmaceutical companies than he does about the people they are shafting … The time for exhortation is over. FDR didn’t exhort robber barons to stem the redistribution of wealth from working Americans to the upper 1 percent, and neither did his fifth cousin Teddy .. FDR had no legs to stand on, but he sure had spine
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