He displays many of the same distinguishing traits that made Truman a great president and the most brilliantly right man of his time. Leadership among politicians is as rare as Yasser Arafat at a bar mitzvah. Anybody who depends on votes for leading is suffering from a conflict of interest, as fundamental as a man at an orgy wanting to have a good time while trying to put his clothes on. In a legal matter, a judge recuses himself when anything even resembling the possibility of a conflict of interest arises. They go in one direction until the polls they are following point in the opposite direction, and then they do an about-face.
Different times demand different kinds of leaders.
People don't necessarily know what is the best solution for their problems. We naturally assume that they know better than we do, and we take their advice. But with voters, it's the exact opposite. We elect politicians as experts and find we have changed places with them. Since we can throw them out of office if they don't take orders from us, they dance like puppets to the beat of the public drum.