This morning’s Times contains an oped by David Rothkopf with a deep critique of President Obama. The upshot is that Obama is simply a bad manager, coming into the presidency with no executive experience. And many of the key failures of his time in office stem from that single fact.
After you read it, if you’re game, I’m curious to get your feedback. Both from observers from a distance and from those more up close. Broadly, it doesn’t ring true to me. For two basic reasons. Read More
Video of Obama’s official swearing-in ceremony from a short time ago. Watch.
I agree with TPM Reader AK that the Red Dawn fantasy is what keeps both sides of the gun debate from coming up with sensible approaches to dealing with gun violence …
I’ve been a regular TPM reader for almost 10 years. I consider myself a progressive Democrat. I’m also a gun owner and an army veteran. And I’m rapidly creeping up on Social Security age.
In considering SS’s question, “… in precisely which “tactical” scenarios do all of these lunatics imagine that they’re going to use their matte-black, suppressor-fitted, flashlight-ready tactical weapons?” I think we have to talk about what I call the Red Dawn fantasy.