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The "O" Team: sit back, relax, get ready to rumble


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He's taken everything in his stride, it seems. How will Obama and his team battle the GOP onslaught? How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying — or not saying? At meetings with his closest advisers, he likes to lean back, put his feet on the table and close his eyes. If he doesn't like how the conversation is going, he will lean forward, put his feet on the floor and "adjust his socks, kind of start tugging at them", says Michael Strautmanis, a counselor to the campaign. Obama wants people to talk, but he doesn't want to intimidate them. "If you haven't said anything, he'll call on you", says Strautmanis. "He's never said it, but he usually thinks if somebody is very quiet it's because they disagree with what everybody is saying… so Barack will call on you and say, 'you've been awfully quiet'". There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no drama", he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing. We're going to rise or fall together". Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign — or a presidency.
Chique

8 responses // The "O" Team: sit back, relax, get ready to rumble

  • Disgustingly smart and professional. He reeks of integrity and is just plain nice. Imagine that in a president.
    recommended by  Chique
    Marilynn_Murray
  • "to give power to someone ethical and elitist destabilizes their base and threatens their addiction to power, which is related to our addiction to oil and carbon, though that is another story."

    "he's slowly taking it easy, whatever will be, will be"

    "chill barack, sit back and apply CO2 taxation, keep it simple"



    newsweek, HAhahahahhahahhaha!
    NEWSWEEK.......hahahahha! ?!? ..... oops, hernia
    lfm
    • lfm
    • 2 months ago
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    Marilynn_Murray
  • big hang over, sorry i dont make much sense, but honestly, i never really do

    lets see..........

    barack's actions and attitudes are being scrutinized and future assumptions are being made on both right and left sides of the spectrum. the confusion is getting to the point in which neitehr side knows precisely how to move forward, we keep on waiting for the other's next move so as to then act accordingly.

    what im trying to say is that we have enough knowledge to start the serious work we have put on stand by for so long. barack should not be sitting back and chilling to see what the other side will come up w/ next, THE OTHER SIDE IS WASTING OUR TIME.

    is that clearer?

    one thing is to keep your eyes open for trouble and another thing is to keep them open to solutions.

    ps: rupert murdoch is the epitome of wrong doing
    lfm
    • lfm
    • 2 months ago
  • lfm - Hope you're feeling better! Yes, we have serious work to do and it won't be easy but I agree with Marilynn too because reeking with integrity is a great place to start and would be so very refreshing!
    Chique
  • i totally agree w both your statements...... it is just that sometimes it feels a lot like we are settling for crumbs of freedom.... :-/ whatever they allow us to do, or dont pay attention to, or willingly accept as "lost ground", those are the crumbs

    sometimes it truly feels we are jumping from one foot to the next, wasting energy and time, neither of which we have enough
    lfm
    • lfm
    • 2 months ago
  • There's no doubt about that, apathy has cost us way too much.
    Chique
  • You are right Chique, I think it is caused by not having decent newspapers or news. People don't bother looking anymore because no news is there. I wish we still had Walter Cronkite, and newspapers with big headlines screaming about actual news. Our Democracy is disappearing and no one is even aware. Maybe Obama will revive the fairness in broadcasting and break up the ownership of it all. Surely there are still some reporters out there?
    Marilynn_Murray

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