Regardless of where you stand on the President or the proposed health care legislation, I think you might find this column about the President's communication and leadership style to be quite interesting. It's a very long piece of writing but it uses the health care fracas to suggest that Obama's preference for conflict-avoidance above all else may be a weakness, something with which I agree.

Obama's Leadership Style

It is still VERY early and two years down the line perhaps the President will have changed his approach to things. But I'm not sure that's possible. Time will tell.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.