As a leader, Obama more like Bush

Barack Obama is going through a mid-life crisis. He was very successful in college, but hasn’t done anything notable since, and instead of buying a red sports car to assuage his sense of failure, he decided to become president of the United States.

Unfortunately, he, not John McCain, is the one who is most like George Bush. Obama compensates for his lack of experience by surrounding himself with brilliant advisers. The problem with these advisers is that they are often government officials, but not government leaders, or they may be political pundits, academic or journalistic, trying to apply perfect ideas to an imperfect world. (For openers, Obama wants 5 percent of the population to take care of the other 95 percent. It didn’t work for the Communists and it won’t work for us.)

A good leader needs good advisers, but leadership is more than picking and choosing from among your advisers’ best ideas. With Obama we’re just going to see the failures of the left instead of the failures of the right. But our real failure is in electing men with neither the experience nor the leadership qualities to head the most powerful nation in the world.

Beatrice Stein

Granite Falls