I honestly believe that’s where Obama learned how to be a “Leader”. He was president of the Harvard Law Review, sure, but he never perform any of the traditional functions of that position (there are no articles or editorials under his name). Hi forays into the private sector consisted of an internship at a company that published business directories (where he made no effort to try and get along with his co-workers, and he rebuffed all overtures at friendship by them), and a brief employment at a Chicago law firm where he met his wife (and made no other impression there… no seems to ever remember him doing anything that a clerk or legal assistant could have done). He played “community organizer”, which was pretty much agitating other people to go out and do things, but he never got actively involved. He supposedly headed the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago, but no one there remembers him at most of the meetings, and the majority of the decisions were made by someone else (in most cases, they were made by “…just a guy who lives in (his) neighborhood…” Bill Ayers. Obama never held any leadership positions in the Illinois legislature. He declined several committee opportunities in the U.S. Senate.

And now he’s the President. And he’s doing things the only way he knows how… by bullying, by lying about the opposition, by attacking. He doesn’t know how to persuade. Whenever he tries to push an idea in a positive manner, he falls flat (he gave over 100 speeches trying to pass the PPACA, and the popularity of it went down with every one. It now stands as the largest piece of legislation pass without majority popular support (53% of those surveyed were against it at the time of passage, and there’s still a majority against it now).).