>>IMO that's just silly. I disagree with Obama on a lot of things but I don't have any kind of passionate reaction against him.
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>>But I see him as a lightweight. Jimmy Carter for the new millenium. Just the wrong man in the wrong job. ( the rest of your list for one reason or another I don't have much of a problem with )
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>>I'm afraid, however that the nature of our current political process is that serious people of accomplishment don't have desire, temperment or time to do what is necessary to become President.
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>Reading up a lot after a week of abscence I came across this post today. Did the Pakistan raid change your view of him ?

No, I think he is a smart, pragmatic opportunist ...who is in over his head on these matters.

In this case he was smart enough to know he needed to take the advice of people who did know. I give him credit for apparently doing nothing to interfere.

I think a lot of policies he advocated while running to placate the Left were abandoned once he had to deal with reality and I credit him for recognizing that.

Now we'll see how well he handles increased chatter from the Left that we should declare victory in the "so-called War on Terror" and go home, and to what degree he panders on the campaign trail ( which is every minute between now and Nov 2012 )

But allowing Clapper to remain is inexcusable. Somebody apparently has reined in Holder and I give credit to whomever that is.

I think on the whole he was better in this case deciding which voice to listen to than Carter was in similar circumstances or than Bush was in listening to Rumsfeld ( and Cheney's support of Rumsfeld )