Originally Posted by Guest

That's what gets me ... I've worked in government, served in the military and in private industry and each had it standards you needed to meet or exceed. In short, you really did have to deliver or you would hear about it.

Someone like Obama, who is clearly all talk and no action, would never have made it to a senior rank in any of those environments based on merit. As it turned out, he was able to "talk" his way, with some help from the teleprompter, and promise a lot of gullible people the moon and they bought it. Human nature seems to be constant in every generation, because people love to hear stuff like that.