Community Organizer in Chief II
A Community Organizer works with aggrieved parties to get satisfaction from the System. His creative role is primarily tactical: how to create a buzz, how to put the representatives of Oppression in a corner. What the aggrieved want is simple: more money and power. The CO figures out how to get them.
In Washington, getting a big bill through requires presidential arm-twisting, cajoling and bribe offers. The classic example is Lyndon Johnson, famous for making Congressmen see the light of their own self interest. The current Congressional leadership is ineffective, and too far to the Left, in the hands of Reid and Pelosi to produce bills that can pass without presidential involvement. In the face of public opposition, and in the absence of presidential cover, Congressmen are wary of committing themselves.
Obama’s aloof method has not forced resolution from the legislature. Like a broker, the Community Organizer does not force the parties to the table. For a conventional leader though this appears as weakness–he is failing to get what he wants. Obama might retort that “It’s not about me. Congress needs to send me a bill.” This explains his up till now complacent inaction.
