The leadership Divide| NYT

Mata Bai escribe en 'The Caucus' en el NYT 19/12/2007

The Leadership Divide - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog Annotated

Un interesante, pero de momentos ambiguo comentario acerca del rol de la capacidad de liderazgo para la presidencia - entre aquel forjado y el innato. Extrapola algo al hacer entender que el de Hillary Clinton es forjado mientras que el de Barack Obama es más bien innato.

"For all the back and forth between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mr. Obama here (a dynamic that, as my colleague Adam Nagourney points out today, may well help John Edwards), this is the defining difference that’s emerged. It’s not about foreign policy or domestic policy, or what qualifies as experience and what doesn’t. It’s really about the source of leadership — whether leadership as a skill is crafted or innate. Mrs. Clinton argues that you learn to lead by making big decisions (or, in her case, at least being proximate to them). Mr. Obama would have us believe that you are born with the qualities of leadership and that they can be honed by any number of life experiences that may have nothing to do with the specific task at hand. He got some support in this notion yesterday from another of my very smart colleagues, David Brooks, who made the case that while Mrs. Clinton may be a better senator, Mr. Obama seems to him like a more intuitive leader."