With little more than the skills of a community organizer when he was elected president, Mr. Obama’s dithering on Libya as the rebels face defeat, is turning off many, not the least his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a recent interview almost at the end of a mid-east mission, Clinton said she would not serve a second term, even if Obama wins in 2012.
“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told the Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”
Clinton, like many others, is tired of Obama’s indecisiveness as the U.S. dithers, even as those fighting for democracy lose their lives and get crushed by Lybia’s strong armed dictator.
Although Mr. Obama had said more than two weeks ago Col. Moammar Gadhafi has got to go, he has refused to back a no-fly zone over Libya.
There are reports that the tension between Obama and Clinton is so strong that it even was evident in a recent meeting with European diplomats. Pressed by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy that the U.S. should take a tougher stance against Lybia, Clinton repeatedly said, “There are difficulties,” reports the Foreign Policy magazine, according to the daily.com.
One insider has described Obama’s foreign policy shop as, “It’s amateur night”, reports the daily.com.
In an interview on Wednesday with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Clinton repeatedly said “no” four times when asked the question whether she would accept to serve a second term should Obama be re-elected.
Who can blame Hillary for her four emphatic “nos”?
Mr. Obama’s lack of leadership has been evident for quite some time now.
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