Obama isn't a Bureacurat??

 Barack Obama is an able administrator. He has won international praise for managing international affairs elegantly.

However, he has come under severe attack for the way he tried to handle the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Now his ability to master the federal bureaucracy is being questioned. His critics say that he is the first US president since John F Kennedy to occupy the White House without enough executive branch experience and thus he is foundering. It is this that came in the way of handling the historic oil leak that has done immense damage to the environment, sea species and businesses in the region.

People who have been associated with Obama concede this fact. They say that he doesn’t think like a bureaucrat. He mostly banks on his close aides and some expert bureaucrats. Obama’s management style is under scanner for the first time since became the first Black president of the United States.

John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor and who has worked with President George W Bush during his regime, said: "This is a centralized government power guy from the word go, and this may be the best education Obama may get on the ineffectiveness of government and just how hard it is to get the bureaucracy to solve problems."

John Burke, who teaches at University of Vermont and studied presidential management said: "He's strong on decision-making but weak on implementation and follow through,"