Reply #153: Obama was not Senate majority leader like LBJ

[DFW]

If he had been, he would know the ins and out of how to rein in an unruly group of his own party.

The trouble is, he came in as the new kid on the block, and although he beat them at their own
game the first time around (he IS, after all, in the Oval Office), he hasn't risen through the
ranks and garnered the respect of his Democratic Senate peers along the way. He has few (if any)
IOUs to call in.

This may go over well with the electorate, but less so with his former Senate colleagues who
are acting like so many officers who feel passed over for promotion to general in favor of some
smooth-talking, frustratingly popular PFC.

For the record, it is my opinion that Obama has good intentions and is trying (too hard) to not
stumble along the way. I wish he and his closest advisers would take note of the fact that the
fastest guy in the race has usually stumbled a few times in his career, and the one who was so
cautious that he never stumbled at all has also never won a race.