Obama has been advanced beyond his ability to serve. He needs to be reassigned. Community Organizer? Maybe. President? No

We have included these words from Christipher Edley, a former Obama professor from Harvard and his criticism of the Freshamn Senator now serving as President. The come the TimesOnLine:

President Obama’s self-confidence borders on complacency. He is ill served by senior staff, especially his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. He does not appear to be learning on the job as he did when campaigning for the White House. His Administration is too deferential to Congress, too reliant on the President’s personal charm, and as a result is regarded by its enemies as weak and ineffectual.

As Mr Obama prepared to release his $3.8 trillion (£2.4 trillion) budget today, this assessment of his first year in office came not from one of his established critics on the Right, but from one of his most respected mentors — his former professor at Harvard Law School, Chris Edley.

“What I fear is that having made history, having won a Nobel prize, having been celebrated around the world, a measure of complacency may have set in,” Professor Edley told The Times. “I don’t mean that the effort is not there, but that the discipline of self-criticism has perhaps faded.”

Professor Edley, who worked in the Clinton and Carter Administrations and is now Dean of the Law School at the University of California, Berkeley, added: “I wouldn’t give [Obama] as high a grade as President as I gave him when he was my student. I know he can do better.” end of quote.

One of the recurring election year themes in Midknight Review will be commentary from friends of Obama. It is this Review's belief that Obama is in over his head and doing an exceptionally poor job at "president." Such is no better presented than by those who are or have been allied with Bararck Obama.

In some circles within the corporate world, there is the behavioral theory of advancement that encourages corporate leaders to discover the full potential of their leadership personnel via advancement. The theory suggests that levels of incompetency can be discovered via the advancement process. Potential leadership are advanced from one assignment to another, from the less complicated to the more involved, until that corporate member is placed in a position he does not serve effectively. Rather than letting that employee go, this corporate theory suggests that the employee be placed back into positions that he best served.

Obama has obviously promoted himself passed the point of effective national leadership. What was most amazing with the State of the Union Address was the fact that he was "all over the place," and the consensus of opinion in this regard included those at CNN, MSNBC, and any number of liberal pundits. He promised the closing of GITMO without a plan in mind. He promised the removal of the Iraqi forces without having a plan. His economic recovery plan is self-contradictory and doomed to failure for that very reason. One cannot punish business, for example, with tax after tax and then promise a one time tax break for hiring and increases to wages. Look at his foreign "policy." He has none and this is the most critical of all considerations. Look to Iran. His administration will be the administration that allows Iran to become a nuclear power. He has increased the tension between the US and China rather than improving US/Chinese relations as promised during the campaign. He has given cash and council to Islam thinking that this would lead to peace between the Muslim and the non-Muslim world --- effort rewarded with rejection. We could go on and on, but the point is clear -- Mr. Obama is in over his head. Obama has appointed himself beyond his level of expertise and we are all about to pay for this failure -- jds.

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