Comments on: ‘There are Be-ers, and There are Doers’ http://neuroticdemocrat.com/2009/06/there-are-be-ers-and-there-are-doers/ "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:46:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neurotic Dem http://neuroticdemocrat.com/2009/06/there-are-be-ers-and-there-are-doers/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Neurotic Dem Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:24:18 +0000 http://neuroticdemocrat.com/?p=742#comment-757 Great point, Loyal. I agree. There's a risk, too, as we're already seeing on health care: institutions, individuals, and organizations (ie, the AMA), are already attacking the parts of the health care plan they don't like, and there is not yet a political consenus on the sum of the parts. But I think overall, he is exercising leadership -- as you say -- at the highest level, and that gives us the best chance of getting this thing done. -ND Great point, Loyal. I agree. There’s a risk, too, as we’re already seeing on health care: institutions, individuals, and organizations (ie, the AMA), are already attacking the parts of the health care plan they don’t like, and there is not yet a political consenus on the sum of the parts. But I think overall, he is exercising leadership — as you say — at the highest level, and that gives us the best chance of getting this thing done.
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]]> By: Loyal http://neuroticdemocrat.com/2009/06/there-are-be-ers-and-there-are-doers/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Loyal Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:26:39 +0000 http://neuroticdemocrat.com/?p=742#comment-752 Obama is providing a path to getting things done, letting the things be molded by the fitters into square or round shape so they can get through the holes that otherwise are road blocks. And then he gets on teh bully pulpit as need be. I think this is what used to be known as leadership. Obama is providing a path to getting things done, letting the things be molded by the fitters into square or round shape so they can get through the holes that otherwise are road blocks. And then he gets on teh bully pulpit as need be. I think this is what used to be known as leadership.

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