Bill, Echoing Obama, Says That President Doesn't "Run The Bureaucracy"

By Greg Sargent - January 25, 2008, 2:37PM
The Obama campaign just sent me some audio of an event -- from yesterday, the Obama camp says -- at which Bill Clinton said this:

“The President is not called the Chief Executive Officer of America for nothing. You don’t run the bureaucracy but you are responsible for seeing that your ideas turn into positive changes in other people’s lives.”
Bill's notion that "you don't run the bureaucracy" as President sounds awfully similar to something that Obama said the other day:

"But I'm not an operating officer. Some in this debate around experience seem to think the job of the president is to go in and run some bureaucracy. Well, that's not my job. My job is to set a vision of 'here's where the bureaucracy needs to go.'"
This Obama quote attracted sharp criticism from Hillary, who said that what we really need is a "hands on" president.

This is of course is why the Obama camp is now brandishing this similar remark from Bill himself.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/bill_seems_to_echo_obama_saying_that_president_doesnt_run_the_bureaucracy.php

Didnt Hillary saw that the job of President was to manage the Bureaucracy??? Guess Bill, somebody who would know disagrees.

BTW, I agree with Obama and Mr. Clinton. I would hope that the CEO of any company has better things to worry about than HR issues, databases, minutae that less important people should be handling.

that the vision gets turned into legislation or regulation which then gets enforced - and that is the "hands on" that Hillary was referring to.

when he said you get a team together and (key word) execute.