President Obama On ’60 Minutes’: ‘Leadership Isn’t Just Legislation’

November 5, 2010 9:56 AM

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From Steve

NEW YORK (CBS) — After a suffering a “shellacking” in the midterm elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness – failing to sell the importance of several legislative milestones to the American people.

“I think that’s a fair argument. I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation. That it’s a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone,” Mr. Obama told 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft in an exclusive interview set to air Sunday.

Let me translate the Obamaisms:

For once he's right, Leadership isn't about him as leader or his legislation or his idealogical whims, and it certainly is not about him giving us confidence. Many of us possessed all the confidence we needed to stop his out of control leadership and we are confident, with a majority in the House and greater representation in the Senate we will reverse his policies and his idealogical agenda. Hats off to our Intelligent, Confident Electorate for recognizing a narcissist for what he is, a man who claims, "We are the ones we've been waiting for."

Two Years Later, November 2, 2010
An Historic Day in America

Today is the day to get out and vote and tell those in Washington they are fired for not listening to the people.

I have been at work for over a year now, with a very specific goal of educating my circle of family and friends and community, of the overreaching policies of the current administration. Myself and so many other patriotic Americans found ourselves drawn to a cause that was greater than ourselves. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, brothers, young and old, knew that our way of life was under a new kind of attack, an attack from within, with a plan to transform and dismantle America as we know it.
It's as simple as that, but complicated to the everyday person to conceive, that there are forces at work and blueprints being drawn that will have the inevitable result of a more dependent, less free nation. That's not the country we want to turn over to our children and grandchildren. Which leads me to why I became involved in local politics. I began to see the wisdom of the saying, "All politics is local." We must start with our local communities, towns, cities and states to start to effect change. And many Long Island residents have been doing exactly that! We will begin tomorrow by electing candidates who believe in less government and who embrace policies that guarantee a return to fiscal health, job growth and the power of the individual.
These candidates embrace this philosophy.
Republican Candidate for 4th Congressional District, Fran Becker
http://www.beckerforcongress.com/5point.php.
Republican Candidate for 2nd Congressional District, John Gomez
Republican Candidate for the 5th Congressional District, Dr. James Milano
Republican Candidate for Governor, Carl Paladino.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu59lXm7XTM