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The Leadership Trait That Barack Obama and Dick Cheney Share
Though vastly different, both think more highly of their own judgment than any law.
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"Do you see the similarity now? When it comes to doing whatever the hell one wants, or not doing it, due to legitimate constraints, Cheney's avowed preference and Obama's revealed preference are the same. In their own ways, they both subvert whatever it is that gets in their way. Obama thinks of himself as balancing lots of complicated factors -- and somehow it always comes out that he has to assume more power than he thought prudent when others were exercising it.
What a coincidence!
Cheney and Obama both had apologists encouraging this arrogance in them, though in different ways. Cheney's cheerleaders argued for a powerful presidency, testicle-crushing and all. Obama's arrogance has been bolstered more by the pundits insisting that his decisionmaking prowess is akin to Reinhold Niebuhr playing 12-dimensional chess against Wile E. Coyote."
He is so wise, thinking dimensions beyond the comprehension of his doubters! We're so lucky to have him!
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-leadership-trait-that-barack-obama-and-dick-cheney-share/276916/
dkf
(37,305 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)The notion that the press is always hyping the President's "decisionmaking prowess" as the OP commentary claims is beyond silly. To claim that the President doesn't welcome debate is nonsensical spin, especially when the bizarre stretch is to find a common trait between Obama and Cheney. Ludicrous.
President Obama:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589732/obama-on-nsa-programs-americans-not-getting-the-complete-story/
Excerpt: Obama talks NSA in Charlie Rose interview.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023039098
dkf
(37,305 posts)And why didn't he do it himself earlier?
Coulda woulda shoulda.
discopants
(535 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)That's gonna leave a mark.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)phhft. rubbish.
we all know that Cheney is satin and Obama is muslin.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--not sure I'd compare him to The Dick tho. A president must be a Decider, as the chimperor put it. True, so the following equation doesn't exactly work for me:
"they trust their own judgment so thoroughly, and value it so highly, that they recklessly undermine all institutional and prudential restraints on their ability to exercise it whenever they see fit."
Trying to make Obama out to be the same as Darth is a stretch IMO.