We need a butcher!

One rule of life, which I have found seldom wrong, is that the people who ‘talk the big talk’ are not good at ‘walk the walk’. I had an uneasy feeling that this would be the case with President Obama, and it is proving to be right. Please do not get me wrong. President Obama is sincere about what he advocates, and he really wants to change the world for the well being of the humanity. But he is not capable of doing some arm twisting and bashing a few heads to get his way. He can make up this deficiency by keeping some tough ‘executioners’ behind him (like Cheney and Rumsfield for President George W Bush). Rahm Emanuel, the Chief of Staff, is supposed to be the enforcer for President Obama. So far he is proving to be thoroughly useless. Rahm made a big huff and puff about getting the Congress to come up with an effective healthcare reform. His backroom meetings with Congressmen and Senators yielded nothing useful. (Now, thanks to the last minute efforts some veteran Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid, there may be a health reform with some meat behind it). Even the Pentagon, U.S. Military, has started showing disrespect to their Commander-in-Chief. I am shocked at the temerity of Gen. Stanley McChrystal who leaked his report on Afghanistan before the President can act upon it. Why is he allowed to keep his job? As President Nixon said, one has to be a good butcher to be an effective leader. Should know when to let go people who are not useful. President Obama certainly is not a butcher, and there is no one behind him to do that dirty job for him. I am concerned.