Ebola, Obama et le nouveau "tsar": un aveu de faiblesse?

L'auteur de cet article affirme qu'en retenant les services de Ron Klain pour coordonner les efforts de la lutte contre la propagation du virus Ebola, le président, une fois de plus, cède à la pression. Il y voit un signe de faiblesse qui indique que le président n'a pas les qualités d'un véritable meneur.

" Well before Friday’s announcement that Obama had chosen former Biden and Gore aide Ron Klain to serve as the administration’s “Ebola response coordinator” — and the hints about the appointment that the president made on Thursday night — the pattern was set. It’s one that’s played out many times in Obama’s nearly six years in office: Wait to respond to a crisis, draw criticism from Capitol Hill and the American public, dismiss outsiders’ suggestions as politically driven and reactive to a short-term Washington uproar — then eventually give in.

And instead of lawmakers and commentators being satisfied, they pummel Obama for having taken too long or for having made the wrong decision. Rather than projecting the hallmarks of leadership such moves are designed to emphasize — authority, decisiveness, action — his perceived caving undercuts those objectives and damages his image.

As much as Obama has made clear he disdains giving into pressure just for the sake of politics, he has often done so once it becomes clear that inaction is not an option, whether on foreign policy crises or domestic political flaps.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/president-barack-obama-ebola-112002.html?hp=f2