on Obama
June 18th, 2009 |He’s always a step or two behind where his supporters want him to be, getting pulled along by their enthusiasm, rather than out ahead of them where he might get cut off. It’s a community organizer’s MO. You never get out ahead of your constituency. Instead you shape the playing field so that your constituency’s desires flow towards where you think they should go, and allow them to carry you along behind them.
One Response to “on Obama”
sound’s spot on… the only critique is there will be times where he will have to step up and make a definitive statement. In those cases the organizer MO will work against him. He will appear “soft” to either side of the bench.
So like the situation in Iran… I understand they want to step carefully. But the verbal message is almost sounding too cautious.
But we’ll see, it’s only been 5 months…