There’s a lot to admire about the President’s consensus-seeking style, however frustrating it can be to activists. But his press conference yesterday, and the management problems that led up to it, show the limits of that style in times of crisis. Hopefully the oil tragedy – let’s not call it a “spill” when it’s more like a sustained explosion – will help the Administration understand something that seems to elude them at times: You can’t negotiate with disaster or compromise with danger.
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