Obama as Leader

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Commentary: Obama a leader who actually leads

# Story Highlights
# Jack Cafferty: It's refreshing to have a president who is a leader
# Cafferty: Obama is working hard to solve the nation's problems
# Cafferty: Still, Obama has slipped up on spending bill and on some appointments
# Cafferty: Not all of Obama's ideas will work, but some of them will
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Editor's note: Jack Cafferty is the author of a new book, "Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream," to be published in March. He provides commentary on CNN's "The Situation Room" daily from 4 to 7 p.m. ET. You can also visit Jack's Cafferty File blog.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- What a welcome change to feel like someone is running the country instead of running it into the ground.

President Obama has done more in eight weeks than George W. Bush did in eight years -- unless you include starting a couple of wars.

While the armchair quarterbacks second guess the new president, he gets up every day and does things, lots of things.

Whether it's creating commissions for women and girls, ordering the investigation of President Bush's use of signing statements, or jamming a huge stimulus package through Congress, the man is working his tail off. And he seems to be loving every minute of it. It's almost as though our president was born to do exactly what he's doing. He's leading, and boy, is that refreshing.

I remember many times when Bush was in office wondering who the hell was running the country. Then he would appear somewhere in front of a handpicked audience to utter some banalities or say something utterly stupid and I would be reminded. I don't miss him.

That's not to say President Obama hasn't stubbed his toe here and there. Signing that omnibus spending bill with all those earmarks in it after campaigning so hard against pork was probably a mistake. The opportunity was right there to send that bill back to Congress with a note that read, "I told you I am against earmarks and I meant it. Now do it over and send me something clean." Nancy Pelosi's head would have probably exploded, but the American people would have been ready to crown him king.

There are serious questions about whether Tim Geithner has what it takes to solve the banking crisis. Either nationalize the big ones in trouble or let them fail. It doesn't seem that just continuing to hand them money is working.

Better background checks on some of his appointees would have saved him some embarrassment. There's no excuse for asking someone like Tom Daschle with his problems to do anything.

But the point, I guess, is this: President Obama is attacking our country's problems on several fronts. He's got ambitious ideas on how to solve them, and he communicates a sense of calm and confidence to the rest of us as he goes about his business. Will all his ideas work? Of course not. But if you throw enough stuff at the wall, some of it will stick.

And at least I don't go to bed at night worried that I'll wake up in the morning to find out we're about to invade someone.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jack Cafferty.
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interesting...... :hmm:
 
Well, I can say with confidence that no one can accuse Jack Cafferty of being an investigative jounalist.

What a good cheerleader he is, rah! :dizzy:
 
Here is a bit of class for all to see.....When asked for comment on Obama............

Quote of the day "I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him [Obama]. There are plenty of critics in the arena. He deserves my silence. I love my country a lot more than I love politics. I think it is essential that he be helped in office." ~ George W. Bush
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ASLGAL said:
Well, I can say with confidence that no one can accuse Jack Cafferty of being an investigative jounalist.

What a good cheerleader he is, rah! :dizzy:
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The same thing could be said for Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Bill O'Reilly when it comes to former President Bush. :)
 
Bush has class? Get real!
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Yes, he does, and yes it is real.

He could have done what Clinton and Carter did to him with their demeaning remarks in public forums but he has more class than that.
His father was the same way. You did not hear him slamming Reagan or Clinton or any other past or present President.
 
ASLGAL said:
Yes, he does, and yes it is real.

He could have done what Clinton and Carter did to him with their demeaning remarks in public forums but he has more class than that.
His father was the same way. You did not hear him slamming Reagan or Clinton or any other past or present President.
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That's right.
 
yes, because of his upper-class upbringing. Carter once said tht both Bush treated him better than Clinton when arranging for NSC national security briefings for ex-presidents..

Byrdie714 said:
Bush has class? Get real!
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ASLGAL said:
Yes, he does, and yes it is real.

He could have done what Clinton and Carter did to him with their demeaning remarks in public forums but he has more class than that.
His father was the same way. You did not hear him slamming Reagan or Clinton or any other past or present President.
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That isn't class.

That's manners.

Bush's class is considered the way he spoke especially with numerous "Bushism's" that provided Late Night shows with enough comedy to last us for another lifetime. :roll:
 
Byrdie714 said:
Sit back and have a drink on Bush. I'm sure he will drink you under the table! :lol:
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Jiro said:
I don't think it's nice to make fun of his neurological damage that affected his speech. :nono:
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You defend Bush because I made fun of his speech yet you want to legalize drugs that have the potential to cause permanent neurological damage. :giggle:
 
Hear Again said:
You defend Bush because I made fun of his speech yet you want to legalize drugs that have the potential to cause permanent neurological damage. :giggle:
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so is it appropriate of me to make fun of bipolar people and their extensive medication uses? have some class.....
 
Jiro said:
I don't think it's nice to make fun of his neurological damage that affected his speech. :nono:
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When former President Bush accepted the Presidency, he also accepted the ability for the public to criticize him -- just like Obama.
 
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