Barack Obama: Not A Leader
Monday, November 16th, 2009Several recent events have convinced me that our current President is not only woefully unqualified for the position, but also that he is probably too dense to know it. Let me explain:
Decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan: Obama’s hand-picked General, who the President sent to Afghanistan to evaluate the situation and return a strategy for winning the conflict, made his recommendation over 11 weeks ago. Yet, our President, who has exactly ZERO MILITARY EXPERIENCE, chooses to ignore the recommendation and instead lounge around the White House trying “to get it right.” He also chooses to play golf and attend several Democratic fund raisers. Meanwhile, American Military personnel are dying in Afghanistan while the President tries “to get it right.” It looks more and more like Obama is the reincarnation of Lyndon Johnson.
Decision on having Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in criminal court in New York City: Of all of his bad decisions, this may very well be the most bone-headed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) is a terrorist, captured on the battlefield, and kept in custody in a facility not located on American soil. As the admitted mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, he has committed war crimes against America, the same as the Nazis did during World War II. Therefore, he should be dealt with in the same manner as the Nazis were — given a trial by Military Tribunal on foreign soil. Bringing this terrorist to New York for trial will only create a circus atmosphere as all of the media reporters try to get a story, as all of the lawyers try to get a client and then parade in front of the cameras each and every day, and as the terrorists themselves proceed to put America on trial. Also, I have not even mentioned the fact that bringing these terrorists to the US will give them many rights and protections under the law to which they are not entitled. I guess Obama feels that watching out for the terrorists’ well-being will win him some more friends abroad.
Decision to bow before yet another foreign leader: There is, perhaps, nothing else that this President does which displays his hatred of this country as much. All he does on the foreign trips is bow before everyone and apologize for anything and everything American has done over the previous two hundred-plus years. Apparently, he isn’t enough of a leader to realize that all this does is make both him and America look weak to our enemies. But that’s OK to him, as long as the Europeans invite him to more parties and Scandinavians keep awarding him prizes.
The entire Health Care Reform Debacle: On something like this, which Obama and his cronies talked about for over two years while campaigning, a leader would have gone to Congress (a friendly Congress) with a plan outlining what he wanted and how he wanted it to work. Then, the Congress could have started from that and worked its way forward. Instead, Obama simply said, “I want health care reform” and left it to others to come up with the legislation. This had the effect of making it look like he and the Congress were not on the same page, as there were several times when Obama would promise some rally attendee that a specific provision was in the bill, when in fact it was not in any of the 5 bills being passed around. This is the best example which shows that Obama is not a leader; he’s just a talker. He tells everyone what he thinks they want to hear, but never bothers to lead the people working for him.
Thus, America has been saddled with nothing more than a big-mouthed talker as its 44th President. We can only hope that he doesn’t talk us into bankruptcy and socialism
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November 19th, 2009 at 12:20 am
“We can only hope that he doesn’t talk us into bankruptcy and socialism”
As of now, we seem so fearfully close to both of these horrors that we’d never even dreamt were in our future a few years ago! TheOne talks about not wanting to add to our debt but yet he wants to sign a bill that will more than do that; a bill we cannot afford right now. Do something for the uninsured, but don’t tear down everything we have as of now? It’s crazy.
What an amateur. We are in a continuous run of Amateur Hour. And it’s only been about 11 months! Amazing to think of what the next three years can bring.