According to liberal Naomi Klein, Obama is to blame.
There are very few U.S. Presidents who have squandered as many once-in-a-generation opportunities as Barack Obama. More than anyone else, the Copenhagen failure belongs to him. http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/12/obama-no-opportunity-too-big-blow
The liberal Huffington Post:
Consider the president’s leadership style, which has now become clear: deliver a moving speech, move on, and when push comes to shove, leave it to others to decide what to do if there’s a conflict, because if there’s a conflict, he doesn’t want to be anywhere near it.
Health care is a paradigm case. When the president went to speak to the Democrats last week on Capitol Hill, he exhorted them to pass the bill. According to reports, though, he didn’t mention the two issues in the way of doing that, the efforts of Senators like Ben Nelson to use this as an opportunity to turn back the clock on abortion by 25 years, and the efforts of conservative and industry-owned Democrats to eliminate any competition for the insurance companies that pay their campaign bills. He simply ignored both controversies and exhorted.
Leadership means heading into the eye of the storm and bringing the vessel of state home safely, not going as far inland as you can because it’s uncomfortable on the high seas. This president has a particular aversion to battling back gusting winds from his starboard side (the right, for the nautically challenged) and tends to give in to them. He just can’t tolerate conflict, and the result is that he refuses to lead.
We said he was "Senator Present" last year because he seldom took a stand in his vote record. You guys on the Left scoffed. Now he is proving to be the Present of the United States. Sorry. You guys don’t get to complain. You guys chose style over substance. He's so handsome. And articulate. You guys voted for this empty suit. Eat it up. Every last bite. And clean your plate.
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