"You Could Grow Orchids in There" / That's not Leadership

President Obama, is a new brand type of leader. He is going to do things differently in Washington.

For example, he has decided to forgo the outmoded tradition of entering buildings through doors.

(Oval office, no less. Photo here. Might I remind everyone that there was recently a "door photo" that embarassed Bush. Difference was, Bush was trying to open a locked DOOR, -- pictured in the same link.)

But that's just an aside. The REAL story is here:

The Obama that waxed eloquent only last May about the need to change our habits:

We can't drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world's energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we'll be fine. Don't worry about us. That's not leadership.
-[Emphasis is mine. The oratory is, you know, simply breathtaking.]

Is the same Obama that was seen without his jacket, at his first day of work in the Oval Office.

Is it because he was working THAT HARD for the little guy? Was it to put other staffers at ease with a less formal atmosphere?

Nope.

Here his advisor explains:

WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.

Hey Mr. President. To quote no less an authority than yourself:

"We can't ... keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times... That's not [you know] leadership."

You can't really argue with yourself, now, can you?

You being that all-new-and-different-sort-of-leader would NEVER demand that we do as you Say, not as you Do...

Right...?