The Obama Paradox | Obama style of leadership: "Hagel... said he was the subject of repeated political micromanagement... there had been a fair amount of backstabbing, as well... Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, have offered up similar criticism of an Obama White House that often interfered with Pentagon business." | USAF: Fighter jet lasers 5 years away - CNN Video

M.N.: Demagogue - "community organizer" (Alinsky's student), ideologue - inspirational manipulative "preacher", paranoid controlling "micro-manager", cool (cold, detached, revengeful, angry) "transformer", and with all this - a "good person": warm, humane, caring, responsible, deep, not a show-off, has and enjoys a sense of humor, likes a comfortable and easy petit bourgeois life (mentality determines class), knows and appreciates the role and value of money. We are paradoxical creatures, our lives - paradoxical phenomena and experiences. 
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 "Like the defense secretaries in the Obama administration who preceded him, Hagel, in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published Friday, said he was the subject of repeated political micromanagement. In his case, the former Republican senator from Nebraska and decorated Vietnam War veteran suggested there had been a fair amount of backstabbing, as well.
The men who came before him, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, have offered up similar criticism of an Obama White House that often interfered with Pentagon business." - Chuck Hagel accuses White House of trying to 'destroy' him - POLITICO 

 Obama Is Too Cool for Crisis Management
"All in all, it’s a fascinating case study in the interplay of modern media and politics, the sort of thing that would make for a good graduate seminar. “As Obama used to say all the time,” Axelrod says, “ ‘This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t right in the middle of it.’ ”"
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 "He emphasized that Obama’s tightly-knit inner circle – and especially Valerie Jarrett, who seems to function as Obama’s consigliere – shielded the president from numerous signals warning that all was not well. As a result, Obama failed in the most basic task as a manager, since “he did not know what was going on in the single most important initiative of his administration.”
I’ve noted earlier that there are common themes connecting the Obamacare fiasco and the White House’s dysfunctional national security apparatus. Brill’s remarks underscore a major one: The president’s closest confidants squelch the flow of bad news and dissenting advice into the Oval Office.
Criticism of Jarrett’s extraordinary influence on policymaking has risen as administration setbacks multiply. Early on, a long profile in the New York Times magazine dubbed her “the ultimate Obama insider” while a review in the New Republic two months ago called her the 
“Obama Whisperer.” 

Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett chat outside the Oval Office in June 2009. Pete Souza/White House
Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett chat outside the Oval Office in June 2009. Pete Souza/White House

 Brill reports he’s heard from five senior administration officials that Jarrett is the “real chief of staff” in the White House on many issues. But according to a top Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill, she is “not only Rasputin” – referring to the mystical figure who served as a private adviser to the last Russian czar – but also “the Berlin Wall preventing us from even getting messages to the president.”... 
A piece in Politico counseled the president to dump Jarrett, while Dana Milbank at the Washington Post urged him to sweep the White House clean of the yes-men culture personified by McDonough and Jarrett. Instead, Obama has now reportedly stopped interacting with most of his advisers in favor of closeting just with McDonough and Jarrett.
As I wrote last week, the problem with all the talk about Obama now being free to pursue the policy agenda he’s always wanted is that he is only as good as the people he relies upon and the management style he’s installed in the White House. Until the president realizes this, he’ll find the next two years to be as frustrating as the previous ones. Domestic affairs will suffer from this, but so will U.S. foreign policy."
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Obama style of leadership




Paradox...
Yo, feel the flow
Que pasa paradox
Gente adelante, you know it never stops
Yo, feel the flow
Que pasa paradox 



Leon Panetta and Bob Gates slam Obama for micromanagement of the military

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