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President Obama forgot all about his "CHANGE"..

source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-staff-20101106,0,5810934.story

Reporting from Washington — Despite the historic defeat dealt to Democrats on Tuesday, President Obama appears to be resisting wholesale staff changes that would pry apart the circle of advisors he has relied on since the 2008 campaign.

Obama conceded he has made mistakes over the past two years, telling CBS's " 60 Minutes'' in an interview to be televised Sunday that he failed to clearly explain his decisions — a communications problem he said had diminished him as a leader.

But he shielded his staff from blame, saying: "I take personal responsibility for that. And it's something that I've got to examine carefully as I go forward.''

With Republicans now in control of the U.S. House, the White House quickly announced a few symbolic gestures intended to show they had absorbed the lessons of the midterm election. Obama invited both Democratic and Republican legislative leaders to a meeting followed by dinner in the White House on Nov. 18. It will be the first in a series of bipartisan overtures in the months to come, White House aides said.

But the lack of White House personnel moves — combined with the likely return of Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats and Harry Reid as majority leader of the Senate — leaves a different impression.

A Democratic strategist characterized the lack of change at the White House as "willful defiance." The strategist, who discussed the issue on condition of anonymity, said, "The political operation from top to bottom, north to south, east to west, needs to be really carefully looked at.''

Even within the White House, some aides have objected to what they see as an insular culture. Obama's practice of grooming understudies to fill big White House jobs is also under fire.

"The president needs a broader range of views on a daily basis than he's gotten up till now,'' said William Galston, a onetime aide to President Clinton and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "One reason that Ronald Reagan succeeded as president was that he got out of his comfort zone when he appointed senior people, and I think this president needs some people around him who are prepared to challenge not only his policy instincts but his political instincts. The idea of constructing the White House simply by promoting from within is simply ridiculous.''
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    • http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-11-06-scott05_ST_N.htm

      Obama has continuously reminded us that he inherited the economic equivalent of a house on fire and that the situation was dire when he was handed the house keys. One does not have to be a firefighter to conclude that the best way for Obama to put out this proverbial fire was not to use a bucket of gasoline — as he has. The administration policies that were implemented under this regime have failed to meaningfully reverse the unemployment hole which is looming heavily on most voters' minds. Existing home sales are still sluggish at best and new home starts are anemic during a good month and non-existent in most months since 2008.

      Hundreds of billions have been spent to right this economy to little or no avail. One could argue that we are perhaps worse off with the rebound boyfriend than the former one as the federal deficit has skyrocketed under the current administration. The honeymoon is officially over.

      The voting populous initially issued the Obama administration a free pass on taking economic ownership, but somewhere along the way that free pass has been revoked. Based on Tuesday's election results, this economy is now Obama's baby.

      The country may now be done with their rebound phase and on the prowl for a longer-term mate possessing the qualities that are more in line with our core values and less about the rebuff of a former lover. This could not be more evident than the mass exodus of so many Democratic members of Congress. Not since Harry S. Truman's administration in 1948 has there been such an increase for either party in the number of seats gained in the House of Representatives. Obama and his Democratic colleagues would chalk this up to anti-incumbent sentiment or impatience on the speed in which the economy has recovered. This line of reasoning fails to grasp the essence of a rebound mate. Obama's attempt to pinpoint the disconnect of the voting masses is rooted in faulty logic predicated on misguided assumptions about how a slighted lover feels.

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