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Posted: Wed Jan 16th, 2008 07:00 pm |
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After answering a Nevada debate question about his greatest weakness, saying he was disorganized and couldn't keep track of papers, Obama echoed his previous statement:"I'm not an Operating Officer".
Last night’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas kicked off a new dispute over which top candidate has the right approach to actually running the vast bureaucracy that is the executive branch.
Prompting the exchange: Senator Obama’s admission that “I’m not an operating officer. Some in this debate around experience seem to think the job of the president is to go in and run some bureaucracy. Well, that’s not my job. My job is to set a vision of ‘here’s where the bureaucracy needs to go.’”
Last night, Hillary shot back “I do think that being president is the chief executive officer. I respect what Barack said about setting the vision, setting the tone, bringing people together. But I think you have to be able to manage and run the bureaucracy.”
“We’ve seen the results of a president who, frankly, failed at that,” she said. “You know, he went in to office saying he was going to have the kind of Harvard Business School CEO model where he’d set the tone, he’d set the goals and then everybody else would have to implement it. And we saw the failures.”
Obama laughed off the Bush comparison, and fired it back at Clinton. “I’m sure he never lost a paper,” he said. “What he could not do is to listen to perspectives that didn’t agree with his ideological predispositions. What he could not do is to bring in different people with different perspectives and get them to work together.”
Hillary isn’t letting the issue die there, though. At a post-debate rally in Las Vegas, she said “I think the job of the president is to set big goals and bring the country together. But it’s also to manage the government so you get the results you need out of it.”
And in an interview with Bloomberg, she said she was “taken aback” by Obama’s remarks. “We all need to be inspirational and set goals, and I’ve been doing that throughout this campaign,” she said. But Americans “want a president who they believe gets up every single day and works for them. That requires a president who is hands-on. Who after you set the goals and you give the speeches, you go back to the White House and you start holding people accountable.”
“You’ve got to take on this government, you’ve got to run this government, you can’t leave it to others.”
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/16/clinton-vs-obama-management-style/
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