Obama’s “PIDDLE Loop”
July 8, 2009
It’s just like the Marine/Air Force “OODA Loop.” Only completely different.
[A]s President Obama relies more and more on his friends and allies in whatever action he has decided to take . . . eventually, he simply takes on their characteristics as protective coloration, like a chameleon takes on the colors of its surrounding environment, and for the same reason: to hide from predators.
In effect, Obama’s temporary allies become his tribe, and he turns to them over and again for advice, comfort, and friendship. As a consequence, he turns away from those critics whose unwanted facts and uncomfortable observations make him feel bad — the worst sin in the liberal pantheon.
Far from bridging the ideological gap in Washington, Obama’s de facto tribalism segregates administration officials and lawmakers more than at any time since the Second World War. And his PIDDLE loop decision making apparatus guarantees even more presidential isolation from dissenting opinion, both here and abroad.
And the “PIDDLE Loop”?
He Partially listens to a random aide, acts on his first Impulse, angrily and bitterly Defends whatever snap-judgment action he took, Doubles-down on that first impulse, Laughs off any subsequent, game-changing information… then furiously Echos the pronunciamentos of any allies he might have gathered on the issue, no matter who they are — or whether their own interests align with or are diametrically opposed to America’s.
But read the whole thing, which analyzes the infuriating mess we’re making by meddling in Honduras. But it applies to any issue, really. Certainly, the economy.
This is what the guy does. He is fundamentally weak, and it’s going to hurt this country, and other countries. Badly.
Via Ace, who remarks:
People said that if I voted for George W. Bush, I’d get a president who was
intellectually incurious, ideologically inflexible, stubbornly unwilling to admit mistakes, recklessly willing to gamble the interests of the nation in order to protect his own ego — and they were right!They were just off by eight years.
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