But now that he's safely reelected there are some coming out to point out his shortcomings. It's not like they haven't been known since he come on the national scene, but as the recent attacks by "objective journalists" on Bob Woodward has shown, leftists protect their own. That being said, it's good to see something like this come out.
One of my consistent points I've made on B Hussein is he was highly educated by had no real accomplishments to show for it. In ten years in the Illinois Senate he cannot point to one issue he pushed significantly and said "I'll make my stand on this." In less than 200 days serving in the US Senate the only thing he's was working on was the 2008 election. And he has never led or managed anything. I've often said he's not qualified to supervise the night shift of a McDonald's because he has no concept of leadership or management. He's never done it.
One of the things you must do as a leader is trust the people around you to handle things. An Army adage is great commander's surround themselves with great staff officers. Not in the case of the B Hussein regime. And this book shows some glaring examples of this.
Barack Obama a 'dithering, controlling, risk-averse' US president
The insider-account of the damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department comes as diplomats around the world wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr Obama to greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East.
Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a "Berlin Wall" of domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama.
"The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics," Mr Nasr writes in The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat.
The book sets out in detail how Mr Holbrooke, appointed with great fanfare in 2009, was systematically cut out of decision making as both he and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, tried to argue the merits of engaging with the Taliban and the dangers caused by the overuse of drones.
"The White House seemed to see an actual benefit in not doing too much," Prof Nasr writes, "The goal was to spare the president the risks that necessarily come with playing the leadership role that America claims to play in this region."
Admiral Mike Mullen, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 2011, is quoted lamenting how little support Mrs Clinton received from the White House, even though she remained on good personal terms with Mr Obama.
"They want to control everything," Admiral Mullen is quoted as saying of a White House that Prof Nasr says was "ravenous" in its desire to manage foreign policy, even by the to-be-expected standards of turf wars between diplomatic and national security teams....
Im reminded of the great quote from The Godfather, "Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.", and that is what B Hussein did in 2009. His biggest adversary in the Democratic Party was Mrs. Bill Clinton and in a brilliant stroke, he neutered her. She took the State Department assignment and then he appointed Czars to handle the real work. So Mrs Bill Clinton was stuck on trips with Lady Gaga. But she was part of the family and couldn't do anything. She wants the support of his supporters in 2016 and that is all that matters to her.
As Lyndon Johnson once said about appointing his political enemies to high positions, "I'd rather have them inside the tent pissing out then outside the tent pissing in!"
..."American foreign policy has been on a four-year autopilot, which I argue has been excessively risk averse and domestically focused. I don't see any clear decision yet to change that," said Mr Nasr in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
"I wrote this book to problematise the way Obama has approached this whole region, and that it is dangerous to disengage and confuse a low-level foreign policy with success in foreign policy," he concluded.
"My hope is that Kerry will be able to do more, but it is still early. He's definitely trying to create more US engagement, but there has to be a fundamental, strategic decision in the White House to reorientate our approach."
I would not count on that Mr Nasr. John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, is not know for decision making or being bold. But that suits B Hussein fine. He is not finished destroying America as a superpower and fundamentally transforming us into a second rate European nation.
God help us all.
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