A Call to New Leadership

Apropos of my previous post, here's Maureen Dowd with her NY Times op-ed piece pointing out that there is a higher standard of leadership available:

... there was Michelle on Friday, the first day of spring, with a bunch of fifth graders, digging a veggie garden on the South Lawn.

She told The Times there would not be beets, because her husband doesn’t like them, but there would be arugula. And she promised that the entire Obama family, including the president, would go out and pull weeds, “whether they like it or not.”

The tableau of Michelle Obama hoisting a pitchfork on Friday with her sinewy arms and warning that the commander in chief would be commandeered into yard work left me wondering if the wrong Obama is in the Oval.

It’s a time in America’s history where we need less smooth jazz and more martial brass.

OK, Dowd is being over-the-top, but she has a serious point. I sure wish Barak Obama would take some tips about leadership from Michelle Obama!