Does Obama Sell The Deal Well?

In an article for the upcoming edition of The Weekly Standard, editor Bill Kristol has an interesting take on the first major accomplishment of the Obama administration-the so-called economic "stimulus" scam.
Mr. Kristol is right in condemning the fact that President Obama let the Democrat congressional leadership of Laurel and Hardy, aka House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have their signature all across the bill. Thus, letting them dictate the bill and get absolutely no input from Republicans, it looks like what it is. A 1,073-page Crap sandwich.
I think that this part of the article is very telling:

And where is Obama amid all this turmoil? Well, he's not amid it--and he's apparently not curbing or directing it. He seems to be magnetically levitating at least a few inches above the ground, doing campaign events in swing states and in his home state of Illinois, revving up the crowds to  .  .  .  do what? To encourage congressional Democrats to support their own package?

See, President Obama is out on the campaign trail to keep his own supporters excited. The reality is that he did not need a Republican vote anywhere. In the House or the Senate. And, all three Republicans in the senate, the Three Stooges of Sens. Collins and Snowe of Maine and Sen. Specter of Pennsylvania, could have voted against the bill and it still would have passed.
What it showed that even in four, or two because of campaigning, years of being a senator, he is already a creature of Washington and the Beltway. By letting two of the worst Democrats have their fingerprints on the so-called economic "stimulus" scam, he can not in good conscience say that this was his baby. That he took the lead in horse-trading to get some Republican support.
Bottom line.
It is time for President Obama to show the leadership skills that he touted in the campaign. As Mr. Kristol says, it is time to govern.
And, it is not something that President Obama has done at any time in his professional or academic life. Until now.
I hope that next time, he takes the lead and does not overly defer to the congress. He needs to be able to bring aboard as many from all sides as did his predecessors.
Otherwise, the "levitating" act will wear thin and President Obama will come crashing down to earth.