Pannetta says Obama has "given up"

[Ishmael]

Here is the MSNBC interview.

Given up

I don't think he's given up, I think he's just flat lazy. He wants all of the perks of the presidency without having to do the work. He's treating his office just as he's treated everything else, trying to lead from behind.

Being a leader, being a president is damned hard work. You have to glad-hand, back-slap, coerce, threaten, compromise, jaw-bone, make friends and alliances even if you don't agree with them all the time. Obama has shown NO interest in any of the dirty little mechanics of the office. He's made no effort to reach out to his own party let alone the opposition.

His MO seems to be, "I tell you what I want and you just go do it." Sorry Mr. president, neither DC nor the real world work like that. And it's no wonder that things so often get botched up, but he is quick to affix the blame elsewhere, isn't he?

He's playing at being president in the manner he imagines it should be, just as he is trying to re-make the nation, and the world, as he thinks it should be. And instead of rolling up his sleeves and working to make it happen, when he meets with opposition he schedules a tee time.

Ishmael

 

[NeverEndingMe]

we all know that obama's kind isn't capable of doing anything for the long haul. they want the quick fix regardless of whether its right nor not aka obamacare (total disaster wanting to implode)

 

[snugglestruggle]

Great he should resign and give Joe his last 2 yrs hehehe

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Great he should resign and give Joe his last 2 yrs hehehe

Oh gawd no!

I prefer lazy over brain cloud...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He still gives a grand speech.



In the past few days, Bill Clinton has been trying to keep up. :snicker:

 

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[NeverEndingMe]

Great he should resign and give Joe his last 2 yrs hehehe

God no, one one wants that. obama has done enough damange but if Joe was in office America would become a 5th world country behind and below cuba

 

[Busybody]

I don't know about

Giving up

or

Lazy

Maybe its just sheer incompetance

 

[Que]

Biden was complaining about criticism from former administration officials...

Panneta, I think was trying to rebuff the president as diplomatically as possible in hopes of encouraging him to listen to his advisers for a change.

I don't think he had hopes of altering what passes for policy, rather put him on notice that you can't keep deciding to not decide and then blame people that gave you viable options for the very advice you didn't take.

I thought it gutsy of Panneta to be forthright and timely in his criticism. I didn't detect any back-biting motivation.

The usual suspects have continually insisted that the unreserved bug-out from Iraq was what "the commanders on the ground" or "the previous administration" or even his own advisers had planned.

Just as I have been saying and was said at the time, the administration deliberately queered the deal on the status of forces agreement.

 

[Busybody]

or

Naïveté

he may have believed if the US took many steps back, and said SORRY and him being BLACK and MUSLIM or MUSLIM background

ALL WOULD LOVE US

 

[Busybody]

or

deliberate

attempt

to

degrade

us

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Biden was complaining about criticism from former administration officials...

Panneta, I think was trying to rebuff the president as diplomatically as possible in hopes of encouraging him to listen to his advisers for a change.

I don't think he had hopes of altering what passes for policy, rather put him on notice that you can't keep deciding to not decide and then blame people that gave you viable options for the very advice you didn't take.

I thought it gutsy of Panneta to be forthright and timely in his criticism. I didn't detect any back-biting motivation.

The usual suspects have continually insisted that the unreserved bug-out from Iraq was what "the commanders on the ground" or "the previous administration" or even his own advisers had planned.

Just as I have been saying and was said at the time, the administration deliberately queered the deal on the status of forces agreement.

You know, it might be credited to a movent to distance Hillary to keep her more electable.

I just keep thinking, if he felt that it was to the detriment of his country, he should have manned up, spoke his mind and resigned, but instead he played the protect the party and president game and, so to me, his words are no longer those of iron.

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[ms_ann_thrope]

He got his healthcare. What else does he need to do?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When I set out to do something I aim for the outcome I want. When I get something else I assume I'm not competent, and need remedial learning. With Obama you must conclude he's incompetent and ignorant of it, or he gets the outcomes he wants.

That is, he wears a KICK ME sign on his back.

 

[dan_c00000]

He's playing at being president in the manner he imagines it should be, just as he is trying to re-make the nation, and the world, as he thinks it should be. And instead of rolling up his sleeves and working to make it happen, when he meets with opposition he schedules a tee time.

So he didn't get health care legislation passed? Or kill Bin Laden? Or bomb ISIS? Or well I could go on but clearly you're fucking piece of shit.

 

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[Disgustipated]

Ish, when are you publishing that anti Obama video you made before the first time election he won?

 

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[ms_ann_thrope]

Panetta has a huge nose.

 

[Ishmael]

It didn't take long for the Obama shills to fire back.

Panetta 'sad, dishonorable.

Ishmael

 

[Disgustipated]

Ish, when are you publishing that anti Obama video you made before the first time election he won?

 

[phrodeau]

Did anyone watch the O'Reilly interview of Leon Panetta tonight? The upshot, Panetta is fearful for his country under Obama's leadership.

If I had to watch Bill O'Reilly up close, I'd be afraid for America too.

 

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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its pretty bad when Jimmy Carter says youre a clueless dweeb.