Jon Sanders would likely agree with TIME?s Nancy Gibbs that humility is a valuable trait for a political leader.
I suspect, though, that Ms. Gibbs and Mr. Sanders view President Obama?s self-assessment in different ways. Gibbs writes this week:
I still don’t know what President Obama’s core principles are, but the fact that he even pays lip service to humility as one of them could give him the upper hand in the war for the souls of independents ? a group that’s larger now than at any time in the past 70 years. He was aggressively modest acknowledging his inconvenient Nobel Peace Prize. He regularly makes fun of his ears.
Meanwhile, Jon has offered a different view.
