One minute to tell

In baseball, 3 strikes and you’re out. In appraising a person, 3 criteria applied within one minute will tell the whole story. 1. Appearance, score him a Hollywood actor, 2. Conduct, score him, fashionable and dignified, 3. Language, score him party line pimp. When President Obama was asked ‘selected’ questions in his 1st news conference, pre-packaged answers, glibly given, resulted. But when he faced the challenge of answering a question about the baseball icon, A-Rod’s use of steroids, he punted. Obama looks good, smiles appealingly and dresses impeccably, but when he speaks - the master of compromise, non-committal and lukewarm steps up to bat. Within one minute, every American should have been able to recognize our leader as a man without the dynamism to lead. Rather than 1. reprimand a reporter for asking the President an irrelevant and unnecessary question about a sports’ scandal, Obama passed. 2. Rather than using the opportunity to speak directly to the American people ( he hopes are watching his conference and supporting his porkulus package) Obama takes the easy, 3rd person, conciliatory, soft-spoken way out by saying he hopes our young people don’t get the wrong message. So, 3. Rather than using language driven by character, principle and conviction, Obama struck out. Nothing new or surprising here - or in major league baseball today. The public gets the President it demands and deserves.