David Pietrusza
American Thinker
8/30/2010
By now, the adjectives have become commonplace for Barack Obama and his administration.
Progressive.
Game-Changing.
Wilsonian.
Yes, similarities do exist between Barack Obama and his Democratic predecessor, Woodrow Wilson. Both are frigidly demeanored but messianic academics. With barely two years of government experience in statewide office, each assumed the presidency and presided over fundamental overhauls of the existing American system.
But here’s where one can find another little-noticed but perhaps telling comparison: their work habits.
Barack Obama is already more famous for vacations, golfing, and theater-going than he ought to be. In a period of economic crisis, he is off to Maine and Hawaii and Broadway and Martha’s Vineyard. His wife communes with the King of Spain. In time of war, he ducks a Memorial Day ceremony to vacation in America’s favorite sun-and-fun vacation spot — Chicago. He plays basketball. He works out. He golfs and golfs — and golfs.
The pattern and the perception are set. Aside from Barack Obama’s time before the teleprompter, the American public, now out of work, remains unsure of just when this fellow works.
And that brings us back to Mr. Wilson.
It is quite well-known that Woodrow Wilson spent much of the last two years of his tenure stroke-ridden and unable to really work. This is fully understandable and to be sympathized with, not condemned.
But even before his crippling strokes of September and October 1919, President Wilson was no great workhorse.
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