As I was sorting through my notes this weekend, I happened upon a few pages of blog ideas left over from last fall’s campaign. While most are no longer particularly relevant, some ideas stood out, notably this one:
Obama “Cool”/He gets that by avoiding making decisions, yielding to congressional Democrats.
And this seem particularly relevant in two of the issues dominating the headlines these past few weeks, health care and Afghanistan. On health care, Democrats in Congress, particularly on the Senate Finance Committee, have been trying to cobble together a bill while the President watches supportively from the sidelines.
On Afghanistan, he has given no clear signals about which path he plans on taking.
Jennifer Rubin believes his dithering has led to “a remarkable and widespread loss of confidence in the president’s handling of national security” as indicated in recent polls: “This should actually come as no surprise. Neither his rhetoric or his decision-making to date has projected strength.”
It is easy to look cool when you have no experience in making decisions or being a leader, and the media looks at the shiny things you throw to distract them.
And when I say “no experience”, I literally mean ZERO. NONE. NADA.
Jimmy Carter at least had executive experience. And that comparison ain’t sayin’ much, folks.
Hey the old saying the electorate gets the person they deserve. A majority voted for the community organizer. I didn’t I wasn’t fooled. And I’m no boob.
In other news… today being the first day of the Supreme Courts new term, can anyone confirm that,
New Justice Sotamayor asked chief judge Roberts if they could overturn the IOC slap to Chicago? Another liberal boobula.
There are reports that Obamas 25 minute meeting with General McCrystal on the tarmack…..was spent dressing down the General for putting pressure on the President to make a decision on Afganistan before the war is lost. It wasn’t 25 minutes of a debriefing or strategy session, it was Obama yelling at the General for making him look bad.
The military and Generals in particular are serious people. I’m betting they have very little patience for the always camera ready Obama dithering while troops are being lost. While Obama was working to get the Chicago Olympics 8 more troops were killed in the Afghan theatre.
This is approaching criminal mismanagement.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6259582/White-House-angry-at-General-Stanley-McChrystal-speech-on-Afghanistan.html
To me, Obama is a sign of how dangerously stupid the world has become.
Now I read SecDef Gates wants more troops in Afganistan, General McCrystal wants more troops and our young inexperienced President is ….what? Studying? His delaying is criminal. And the media is…..
Was the Copenhagen embarassment humiliation the last straw for our visiting leftists? It seems they’ve abandoned this blog totally now.
The Obama’s “sacrifice” in flying to the IOC Committee meeting wasnt appreciated enough and so they are probably pouting. The General actually had the nerve to ask Obama to make a serious decision when his feelings were hurt – how uncompassionate!!! Not!!! The President needs to start making some serious decisions about serious matters that take some experience (oops!, that is right – he doesnt have any).
Obama is getting Americans needlessly killed. Period. Not that the war is unnecessary, nor that it is un-winnable, but that he is personally hamstringing our military, and personally preventing victory.
Obama’s made a decision! And reduced spending.
of course it’s an agency tracking human rights abuses in Iran.
Why does President Obama hate free people?
Yeah, Livewire, that is a very troubling reduction, very troubling.