• Thursday, January 28th, 2010
What else should Obama do now?
He should confront his base. Every great political leader has the courage to tell his/her followers when they are wrong. Think of Reagan negotiating with Gorbachev when most conservatives were furious about it. Turns out Reagan was right.
Unfortunately, in the first 12 months of the Obama presidency, we have not seen many examples of this kind of presidential leadership. In fact, we’ve seen the opposite. Perhaps the best example was the stimulus package, where the White House essentially let Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid write the bill.
If President Obama will start being more forceful with his own party, he will start to win back some of the independent voters that he has lost in the past year.
