Posted by
John Caile on Friday, April 03, 2009 10:44:14 AM
It is becoming painfully clear that in a hundred-watt world, Barak Obama is a nightlight. In less time than it takes to say "hope and change" the Bumbler-in-Chief has shown himself to be utterly inept in almost every aspect of governance.
In filling his cabinet he seemed unable to find anyone who had actually remembered to pay their taxes. Now, true, the majority of people who voted for Obama don't pay taxes either, but, come on, are you telling me he didn't even check to see if prospective senior officials in his administration weren't tax cheats?
His embarrassing gifts to foreign heads of state have included, are you ready for this, an IPOD and a pile of...CD's. Gee, that ought to go a long way toward "rebuilding America's image in the international community."
Then there is his crowning achievement (pun intended) - his horribly misnamed "stimulus" package. Obama's answer to what should have been a minor economic slowdown was to turn it into a disaster by initiating the largest deficit spending orgy in U.S. history...and "paying" for it by sending the national debt into the stratosphere. He then went off the Socialist deep-end by announcing that the Federal Government would be taking over the auto industry.
The result has been a plummeting stock market and skyrocketing unemployment, as business leaders reacted to each new example of Obama's lack of financial acumen. And Obama's claims of "inheriting" a troubled economy were not convincing, at least to anyone with a memory longer than a sitcom - barely a year ago the Dow was at 13,000 and unemployment around 5%. The business community looks forward, not backward - and they don't like what they see from Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress.
And Obama's missteps have not been limited to the domestic arena.
Just this week, Obama gave a speech in France, where after basically apologizing for everything America has done since the founding of the country, he gave forth as to how the world should move to "wind and solar power" - while standing in a room blazing with lights powered by...nuclear reactors. (For those of you who get your "news" from John Stewart, France gets 80% of it's electricity from nuclear powered generators.)
It seems that Obama's idea of diplomacy is to stop referring to terrorists as terrorists, refrain from labeling enemy combatants, well, enemy combatants. And in the most laughable example of liberal idiot-speak, the Obama administration has announced that terrorist attacks on civilians will henceforth be called..."man caused disasters."
But perhaps the greatest example of Obama's naivete is his almost suicidal view on nuclear weapons - he wants the United States to unilaterally disarm itself. Now, we expect this sort of nonsense from the unwashed professional protester class who inhabit Seattle coffee shops, but not from the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military force in the world.
After all, America may be the "big dog" economically and militarily, but remember that we represent less than 5% of the world's population, and in Obama's "nuclear free world" the United States would be as vulnerable as an unarmed man in a forest full of wolves.
And this kind of wrong-headed thinking on defense is not limited to nuclear weapons - Obama is just as eager to see every individual American disarmed. His visceral hatred of the 2nd Amendment is well documented, and the anti-gun loons currently in charge of the Democrat party share his views.
We have come to expect a certain percentage of the American public to be naive in matters of national and international policy. But for a President of the United States to be so unutterably clueless on so many issues cannot bode well for the future of the country.