Riffing on Maya Angelou's famous observation about Bill Clinton, Kathleen Parker raises the above rhetorical question about Obama.
Stereotypes aside, and also setting aside how much of real male-female relational and socializing style in America is cultural and how much is genetically engendered, I'd say Parker isn't all wrong.
That said, is Obama's style "wrong"? No. But, if it's ineffectual, the search for compromise, or getting along, or whatever, has to be junked. Unless you'd prefer being popular (or trying to be popular, or conciliatory) to being effective.
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