This article spells it out perfectly: “Obama, the uninterested president”

This “take no responsibility” president gets briefed on the AP phone record heist from the news and immediately removes himself from any responsibility. As another poster opined on this forum he grabs the spotlight when something goes right but runs behind the WH dumpster like a scared Chicago sewer rat when things go wrong. Disgusting.

“(Obama) wants no control over the actions of his administration. As the president distances himself from the actions of “independent” figures within his administration, he’s creating a power vacuum in which lower officials behave as though anything goes. Certainly, a president can’t know what everybody in his administration is up to — but he can take responsibility…”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-the-uninterested-president/2013/05/14/da1c982a-bcd7-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?hpid=z2

nochain wrote:This “take no responsibility” president gets briefed on the AP phone record heist from the news and immediately removes himself from any responsibility. As another poster opined on this forum he grabs the spotlight when something goes right but runs behind the WH dumpster like a scared Chicago sewer rat when things go wrong. Disgusting.

“(Obama) wants no control over the actions of his administration. As the president distances himself from the actions of “independent” figures within his administration, he’s creating a power vacuum in which lower officials behave as though anything goes. Certainly, a president can’t know what everybody in his administration is up to — but he can take responsibility…”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-the-uninterested-president/2013/05/14/da1c982a-bcd7-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?hpid=z2

He wants the power and title with no responsibility or accountability...As some have said before...'an empty suite'....