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We didn't see much of the soaring rhetoric that Obama is so good at tonight. Now wasn't the time for mere inspiration. Instead, his tone was of a sort of national CEO, talking as if he could look at America's balance sheet, reorganize various departments, and lead us to a more prosperous fiscal year. Judged on those terms, it was a successful speech.

But of course a country isn't a corporation, and can't be run like one. Obama's brand of managerial liberalism blurs that distinction. The continuing ascendance of the notion that the president is the all-powerful boss of the country is more than a little worrying.

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Tim Williams| 2.24.09 @ 10:47PM

Indeed. He assigned Congress to bring plans to him several times, as well, and even explained that the stimulus bill was something he'd directed Congress to do. In Obamaworld, the Congress reports to the President, it seems - as do the rest of us.

Sebastian B. O. Buniontow VI| 2.25.09 @ 12:56AM

And, what in Obama's resume demonstrates his capacity for leading anything (much less a corporate CEO)?

The guy is a community organizer for crying out loud.

ame| 2.25.09 @ 9:30AM

Finally, with Jindal we have a leader on the national stage, not an empty styrofoam Greek column Obama poser.
Bobby Jindal is one of a very few truly brilliant people who have ideas that work and have proven to do so. He has more smarts in his socks than Obama has in his pretend sentimental idiotic "dreams."
Jindal is a man of principle, not politics; a man with an ethical and moral center, not "above my pay grade" - "I screwed up" - "I won" pureile whining; a leader, not a facilitator; a person of action, not staging; someone who believes in the power of America and Americans, not the power of government; a man of purpose, not empty promise.
Bobby Jindal has actually served the America he leads, not just taken from it for personal gain.
Jindal and other young Republicans such as Cantor and Ryan finally give me some real hope.
Obama couldn't lead a dog to a fire hydrant, but he can put dogs in a "study group" and teach them to bark.
Jindal is real, a leader who has proven himself through his actions, someone we can actually trust and someone who delivers, not the solipsistic pathetic frat brat elitist race baiting welfare Chicago thug wind blower we now must endure. I didn't listen to Obambi's speech because he never says ANYTHING - NO SUBSTANCE, just dissembling equivocation, but I did listen to Jindal because he not only speaks with substance, he delivers it.