- With all due fairness to management-trainee-in-chief Obama, he has a good sense of the occasion and delivers his ghostwritten speeches very well off the teleprompter.
- So on important, solemn and emotional occasions of national triumph or, like this one, national tragedy, President Obama is a great president.
- Unfortunately, in part because he has never been an executive anywhere and in part because he is on the wrong side of history, he is at a serious loss when it comes to the executive fubnctions.
- And it is executive leadership more than speechmaking that is needed as rarely ever before in Washington and the world.
- But well done on the memorial speech Mr. President and extra kudos because you wrote this one yourself.