Monday, February 08, 2010
Is the Chicago Mob hurting Obama
And I should apologize to the Windy City wise guys because they got things done. Steve Clemons looks at an FT article that surveys what Obama's Chicago Three + 1 have done for him in DC and it is not pretty.
But this Luce piece is unavoidably, accurately hard-hitting, and while many of the nation's top news anchors and editors are sending emails back and forth (I have been sent three such emails in confidence) on what a spot-on piece Luce wrought on the administration, they fear that the "four horsepersons of the Obama White House" will shut down and cut off access to those who give the essay 'legs.'To cut to the chase, what Luce and Clemons see as the problem is that the Chicago 3 + 1 are a tactical group that is muscling out the policy people and determining Obama's strategy for him. And Obama is letting them do so. Read the Clemons post first then go on to the Luce, it is eye opening.
But in the too regularly vapid chatter about DC's political scene, serious critiques of the internal game around Obama not only deserve review on their own merits but have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing and people need to consider why.
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