If he fails to keep defining himself aggressively, his pastor's paranoid and angry comments will let opponents do it for him.
Eventually he started hiring others to do it for him.
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In late 1990, the United Nations had decreed, in an ultimatum, that if Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein did not remove his troops from Kuwait, then an authorized coalition led by the U.S. would do it for him.
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Obama tried to sidestep the issue Friday, saying that while he believes the provision is "the right thing to do, " it was premature for him to talk about what he'll do before he sees a bill on his desk.
Rather than helping him to do things himself, it assigned a helper to follow him around and do everything for him.
His illness notwithstanding, it will not do for him to adopt a passive end-of-regime persona after the manner of Ronald Reagan.
While it will of course be more politically embarrassing for him to do so at this point than it would have been a month ago, the costs to his Administration will only increase as the looming Senate battle over this controversial candidate is joined.
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For him to do it at every single stop with the consistency he's done, he's a tremendous, tremendous, tremendous coach.
Tonight would have been a good time for him to do it.
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Jackson had been pleading with him to do whatever it took to help him sleep so he would have the energy for his rehearsals and concert tour.
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But overall, yes, it was wise for him to do the interview and confess of sorts.
My only criticism is that perhaps it was too easy for him to do.
Now, however, thanks to an unforeseen but welcome change in the composition of his government coalition, it has become easier for him to do the right thing.
Not until the last fitful months of the Bush Administration did a serious person with a meaningful understanding of communications strategy come to the fore, and even then, it was too late for him to do anything.
Indeed, it would seem disingenuous for him to totally do away with the old days.
"It would be easy for him to coast along and do nothing, " Bader says.
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