One year after the coronation, we have time to reflect on the success of Barack Obama's reign. From where I sit the man is unfit to run the country. Ok already, I know it is a tough job, etc. etc. But it is more than that, Obama has bad in-stinks (sic), which means his "gut" is not in touch with what America really needs in a leader. Cases in point:
National Security. In his zeal to close Guantanamo Bay and satisfy his left-wing base, Obama really stuck crank in the door. His much vaunted effort to turn the War On Terror into a police action has backfired. Never once did he anticipate the furor that would erupt when ultimately terrorists will be shipped to the U.S. for trials and encarceration. Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General, has been an embarrassment and abomination (more on that later). His cavalier action on bringing Kahlid Sheik Mohammed to trial in New York has resulted in such a hue and cry that it helped hand Scott Brown a victory in Massachusetts, taking over Uncle Ted Kennedy's seat. Now Obama has to consider keeping Guantanamo open because no right minded people want those religious lunatics here. Duh! And the COST. My Lord, $200 million a year in Manhattan for security. Think of this in terms of BILLIONS of dollars from a bankrupt U.S. being frittered away on hundreds of "terrorist", not enemy combatant, trials. Again a Duh moment for Obama.
Foreign Relations. You can't even grade the guy on this one. Where to start; bowing to foreign leaders, an abject failure to rein in Iran's nuclear program, pissing on Israel while the United Nations drums up more human rights nonsense, selling Eastern Europe down the tubes by failing to install a missile deterrent and bolstering Russia's position and standing by mute while people take to the streets in Iran, probably our best hope for popular regime change in the Middle East. World Leaders recognize his weakness and will continue to exploit it in the coming years. His supposed dialogues with the mullahs in Iran have yielded nothing but derision and disdain from that quarter. The only thing I will give him credit for is killing the Somali pirates, something long overdue.
The Military. Obama now asks our soldiers to be policemen. Miranda rights, rules of engagement, protocols and B.S. We continue to bring our protectors before courts to prosecute them for doing their job in the field. After all, they are fighting a war. A dirty nasty business against an enemy Obama refuses to acknowledge for fear of alienating the Muslims. Must be the Hussein in him. What have these prosecutions brought? Have they made us bigger or better in the eyes of the world? No, mostly they are an embarrassment, as many soldier trials have ended in acquittals. The latest out there involves a few Navy seals that may have punched a terrorist while capturing him. Poor guy. In a war, not a "man caused disaster", the Seals would have finished their work in the field. Now a show of hands.....who wants to join the military, the police or Homeland Security if you could ultimately be tried in court for doing your work? Obama's in-stink on the military sucks. He and his administration are incapable of protecting us from our mortal enemies. We will continue to pay for his starry-eyed view of the world as long as he and his supporters rule.
The Economy. Spend, spend and more spend. Who gives a damn about jobs when you can force feed the public a sweeping health care bill. Or should I say power-grab? Well that went well didn't it? It blew up in Barack's face and cost the Democrats a supermajority in the Senate. Thank God. We now have a chance to limit the damage going forward. Having spend billions to stimulate the economy we are still waiting to see the results. But we have "saved jobs" right? Don't we all understand that? The administration pulled an unprovable, unpublished statistic out of its derriere in order to measure its progress with the Stimulus. That's like Captain Kirk reprogramming Star Fleet's computers so he could beat the Kobyashi Maru test. I guess if we can create our own yardsticks we would always measure up. Truth is we have waited so long for real results that the economy is essentially recovering on its own, as capitalist economies tend to do. After spending billions on TARP and bailouts, Paul Volcker, an Obama economic advisor, is testifying on why no more bailouts should be allowed in the future. The public has been screaming this from day one; "let bad companies fold". But no. Now we have the government and labor unions owning companies here in the U.S. of A. Say it ain't so Myrtle. Then there is the budget. Trillions in deficits spanning decades. Hold on to your gold and platinum folks, we're in for a bumpy ride. More in-stink.
Post Race Relations. Obama has done little to sooth tensions amongst the races in this country. Figuring prominently is Eric Holder's (there he is again) decision not to prosecute Black Panthers who were filmed intimidating voters outside a polling place. If we forget the black and white for a minute, let's look as some other "racial" clashes Obama has fomented. We must now hate corporations for they make too much money. We must hate bankers, we must hate the rich (as he defines it), we must hate the Tea Baggers (aka Patriots), we must hate talk radio and Fox News. Tell me I'm wrong here! The drumbeat is constant in the mainstream media. Mark my words, this is the most divisive president in history.
There could be a LOT more to write here, the least of which was Obama's Supreme Court bashing in the State of the Union address, but I simply have to stop or my one reader will tire and not finish the blog. To run this great country you have to know it. Obama doesn't know it, he doesn't feel it. Yes, he does know the Left, but he has an ivory tower view of the rest. People are going to tire of the name calling and the blame game and hopefully it will have a profound effect on the 2010 and 2012 elections. The Right will have to serve as the gut check for this president because he doesn't have the proper instincts to run the country. He only has in-stinks.
