When in doubt stick with what you know. Barack Obama knows how to campaign. As a result he has been campaigning non-stop since he was elected. Instead of spending his time in the Oval Office making executive decisions and leading, he is the perpetual pitch man for everyone else. The problem is the American people didn’t elect Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as their president, nor did they elect a politburo of 30+ czars. They elected the most inexperienced and inept chief executive since the Harding administration.
Biden’s Brushfires
Remember it was almost one year ago that Joe Biden said, “Mark my words…” that within six months of taking office a President Obama would be faced with an international crisis. Maybe it took a little longer than six months and maybe it is not yet a full blown crisis, but are there brushfires? Let me count the ways:
- Ahmadinejad thumbs his nose at the world while buying time to finish building nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them to Israel. Obama had the opportunity to put the same kind of pressure on the mullahs that the mullahs put on the Shah of Iran in 1979, by speaking out strongly against the fraudulent election in Iran. Instead he issued a tepid response and the mullahs cracked down hard. Now Obama is negotiating from a position of extreme weakness.
- The Poles and the Czechs are thrown under the bus, while the Russian bear licks its lips as the missile defense bases are cancelled by Obama
- Obama has spoken to his commander in Afghanistan but once in the 70 days that the commander has been on the ground. The general says he need more troops. Obama is calculating his response.
- Hugo Chavez is getting chummy with Ahmadinejad and would love to have nukes in Venezuela so he can take over as leftist strongman in South America as Castro fades away.
- And if the nukes can’t get to Venezuela fast enough, Chavez wants to put puppets throughout the region. He is currently trying to re-install Zalaya in Honduras, after Zalaya was removed for trying to illegally alter the Honduran constitution. Hillary and Obama are not helping the democratic government of Honduras, but Chavez and Zalaya.
- North Korea continues to play cat and mouse with Obama, while they also expand their nuclear and missile capabilities and see who they can sell the technology to for hard currency.
Amid all of this, one might expect President Obama to be burning the midnight oil in the Oval Office. Well, not when there is another campaign that needs his special talents. So he will travel to Copenhagen, to campaign for his hometown of Chicago, as they bid to be the host of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
It almost makes you pine for Jimmy Carter.
