Obama has misplaced priorities

From the files of Dan Bongino at The Conservative Review

One of the core components of strong leadership, whether in government or in business, is knowing how to allocate your time and attention.

A business leader who spends most of his time and attention on items which do not add value to the company and its workforce will quickly find himself out of a job.

Unfortunately, given the paucity of leadership in Washington DC today, this principle of effective prioritization is tough to find among today's political class.

Exhibit one: President Obama, in an October interview, when asked about his priorities in the last year of his presidency said, "[W]e have this weird habit in this culture of mourning and, you know, 48, 72 hours of wall-to-wall coverage, and then ... suddenly we move on... And I will do everything I can to make sure that there's a sustained attention paid to this thing."

One would think that the "thing" he was referring to, if his priorities were in order, was the growing ISIS threat, the struggling economy, the porous border, or the dreadful failures of Obamacare. The subject of the president's focus: gun control.

You read that correctly, the Commander in Chief, whose time is incredibly limited, plans to focus a significant portion of his remaining second term not on the threat of a catastrophic terrorist threat from ISIS or any of our other ongoing problems, but on gun control.

As a former Secret Service agent who spent many years working inside the 18-acre White House complex, I am familiar with how the scheduling of the president's time works. Contrary to what many people believe, the president's work day (not the content of the work, just the schedule) resembles that of most corporate executives.

He works about 10-12 hours a day and most of the day consists of briefings and meetings. Many of these meetings are photo ops only, which eat up a lot of the his time, so under the best of circumstances he has roughly 6-8 hours a day to focus on his strategic vision for the country.

With all of the global chaos occurring right now, the country needs a focused and attentive president with the leadership skills to triage and fix problems.

Read more from Dan Bongino at The Conservative Review

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Dan Bongino is the bestselling author of the book Life Inside the Bubble and is a Contributing Editor at Conservative Review. He was the 2012 and 2014 Republican nominee for the United States Senate and 6th congressional district in Maryland. He served for over a decade as a special agent in the United States Secret Service, and currently owns a security consulting business. 

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