Obama’s Crisis:Credibility

By Michael Gerson,Washington Post

Obama and Carter both lacked credibility

President Jimmy Carter once sent a note to an adviser extolling the importance of crisis to leadership. "When a president has authority to act unilaterally (as in a crisis),his leadership can be exerted. Otherwise,compromise,delay and confusion [...]

Obama’s LBJ Syndrome

By Jeffrey Lord,American spectator

Obama is building a credibility gap

The 1967 board game was called “Credibility Gap.”

Created by two academics,it was inspired by what now might be called LBJ Syndrome,the pattern of behavior exhibited in the 1960s by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. A pattern of [...]