Listening to President Obama's press conference about the Gulf oil spill, I found myself actually relating to what he was saying, seeing things through his eyes and feeling some real sympathy for him. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to cut the little guy some slack.When he said that there has never before been a disaster like this oil spill [leaving aside the fact that there actually have been worse ones], and that therefore there was no precedent to guide him in how to deal with it, I realized that there was nothing in his studies or his life experience to prepare him for such a thing. After all, none of the people who influenced or inspired him was ever confronted with a catastrophic oil spill.Saul Alinsky didn't devote a single chapter of "Rules for Radicals" to catastrophic oil spills. Neither Marx nor Lenin nor Trotsky ever had such a calamity thrust upon him. Neither Stalin nor Mussolini ever encountered such a challenge. Even Dr. Goebbels, that...(Read Full Post)