SBW

Mr. Brown nails it here.

March 21, 2014
Too Busy to be President

By Jeffrey T. Brown
Is Barack Obama simply too busy to be Chief Executive of the United States? Apparently. One of the primary functions of the president is to keep the nation safe, to preserve it from its enemies. To do that effectively, one would actually have to maintain something of a consistent level of attention to the moving pieces that directly influence how future events will unfold.

None other than the truly sycophantic thinks for a second that President Obama cares a whit for anything that does not involve fundamentally altering the social composition of this country. Or golf. During the five-plus years that we have been without a real president, meaning one who actually was aware of all aspects of the position and tried, even just a little, to perform them, everything that was predicted to occur during his tenure has materialized. We are weaker, less respected, less feared, less liked and, well, just less. No surprise there, really. Conservatives had this guy figured out early in the first campaign, and they were spot on. No record, no experience, no consistency, no integrity, no background, no evidence of morals, no normal friends or associates, and no supporters who cared more about their country than about their silly self-congratulation over electing the first black man who seemed just like them: unserious.

If we assume that the president is even half as smart as we’ve been told he is, which would still make him the smartest person ever to live, you’d think he would have picked up some skills along the way, or gained some firsthand experience that might come in handy. You know, maybe how to read the tea leaves to foresee the bad things that could happen if you take a certain action, or what might happen if you decide to take no action at all when action is necessary. Perhaps you’d think that someone that smart would be open to what more informed people in fields like intelligence and foreign relations have to say, and would use his smarts to discern which advice seemed most sage to plot his course, and ours. He could still claim credit for the successful final decision, after all, which is really all that matters.

But you’d be wrong. In every single crisis that has arisen since the beginning of Obama’s reign of error, he has had something else to do, something that was so much more important than the grenade going off behind him that he just could not find the time to address the crisis of the moment. The celebrity and the trappings of the position have always been vastly more important to this man than the responsibilities, so much so that when faced with the choice of focusing on something hard requiring judgment and decisiveness, and giving in to something easy and self-indulgent, he always goes with easy and self-indulgent.

The day after Benghazi, with four dead Americans to explain, he gave a perfunctory speech in the Rose Garden and flew off to a fundraiser that somehow rated higher than a crisis of national reputation and security. The truth implicit in that action, which some recognized, was that Obama simply did not care that this apparent tragedy had happened. Or perhaps, equally troubling, he had known it was likely to happen because his surrogates did nothing to protect our people while carrying out this his orders, despite dire warnings, and he had already moved on.

Either way, the business of governing never seems to get in the way of the absurd posturing and trying to seem cool. There’s always a television show, or fake cable interview between potted plants in which to push social chaos, that takes priority over actually being an American president. There are shows populated by chatty progressive women, and chatty late night men, where one can talk about bowling comparisons, or perform rap antics with a comedian. There are Democrat happy hours that come within minutes of making dire warnings over Russia’s encroachment on Ukraine that make clear that this president is either suffering the worst case of ADHD ever, or he really is just playing a part he neither understands nor believes in.

And there’s the addiction to golf. I love a good round of golf, but can we finally dispense with the silly talking heads who deflect attention from the president’s irresponsible obsession with golf, making it sound like he needs a break given how hard he works? Giving speeches written by others that scroll on a teleprompter, or flying around the country doing and saying nothing constructive, is not working hard. Working hard means more than just showing up and hoping things don’t blow up on your watch. Leading a country, and committing your life for four or eight years to its advancement and preservation is working hard. We are still waiting on that one. I recall being momentarily surprised to learn that the president was golfing in Key Largo when the Russians predictably entered Ukraine, but quickly corrected myself. The surprise was a remnant of when our country was governed by serious people who cared and worked hard.

I won’t deny that dismantling history’s most successful experiment in self-determination is probably hard work at times, but most of that is being done on his behalf by others. After all, how many times have we heard the president tell us, through his equally disingenuous spokesperson, that he had no idea that everything being done on his behalf, consistent with his vision for a socialist America, was actually occurring. So perhaps that doesn’t count as work.

The obvious lesson, of course, is that if you elect a pampered, spoiled, coddled, insulated, shielded narcissist, male or female, whose image bears no resemblance to his or her substance, you get chaos, and decay and danger. You get bored, disinterested and dismissive brats who resent accountability, and the expectation or insistence that they do what they are paid to do in positions they sought, with skills and traits they lied about having. You get dead Americans, likely with more to come, whose sacrifice means nothing compared to a speech or fundraiser, which itself finances the continuation of the damage being done daily by the poseur and his equally fraudulent cohorts.

In short, you get what we have right now: a fake grown-up, lacking a moral compass, whose protectors have allowed him to escape criticism for saying and doing meaningless and dishonest things, who is paralyzed by his own inadequacy in times of adversity. You get someone who never did his homework and read off classmates’ papers during the test. You get someone who has never had to make a really difficult decision in his life in which he stood to lose something important to himself, rather than something he could simply steal from others. You get an unprepared toddler. The grownups with evil designs can’t believe their good fortune. The grownups with a country to lose can’t believe it, either. Our future is in the hands of toddlers.

hollidaypr

I'm glad my vote will cancel out his vote. And my wife's will cancel out yours.

SBW

Speaking of sycophants.........

dljen Loc: Central PA

I just know when I get as old as some of these coots, I won't be as hateful. I don't even read these long C&P garbage. Who needs to hear this venom? :cry:

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

well said...well read...a shame all the idiots that helped get him elected (twice even)were uneducated and too blind to see what this a$$hole was all about long before they cast their vote. It was plain as day and you failed to see it. You new what he was all about while we struggled to survive and were mocked and laughed at from other countries during his first term, yet you re-elected him for a second term. What the hell has happened to our once great nation....how ignorant, how stupid are you. It doesn't take much education to see, to know, to have suffered and to lose hope in what once was, all because of this lame brain imbecile who lives in the Oval office that those who supported him. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will be paying their dues for what the Obamadamdingalingo has done to our once great country. And what's even worse, he still has 2 1/2 more years to continue destroying America. Trust those who support him are living a better life because of him.....this is your "JOKE" of today and our future.

dljen Loc: Central PA

I voted for Mr. Obama twice and stand by my votes. :shock:

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

You have my sympathy and you got what you deserve. He is destroying America just like the article before mine has openly expressed. I trust we can agree to disagree. I stand behind my comments knowing that I am not alone. I suspect you will stand behind yours as you have admitted herewith. No response is necessary. Your support says enough about you already.

SBW

The real problem is that after bho is tossed onto his well deserved trash heap of history the people that put him in office will still be here to vote in yet another disaster. They are the real perpetrators of this destruction of our country.

dljen Loc: Central PA

I worry that people with your limited intelligence are allowed to vote.

SBW

A little bit too much rust between your ears union boy? Hope it keeps you awake and BTW, glad to be living rent free in your head.

dljen Loc: Central PA

Blind, Lion-boy? Don't bother answering because I'm sure you've provided the others with a laugh :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

SBW

I am so overwhelmed by your sharp wit and intellect that I am speechless. Thank you for the enlightenment. BTW, WD-40 will do wonders.

dljen Loc: Central PA

Time for your meds :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

Another noteworthy comment on your behalf SBW. It's good to know there are still a few decent/honest people that have a brain and can see right through this lame brain a$$hole of a "so called President". You have my back SBW...well said my friend.

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

either that or you would have to be able to imagine Palin and Ryan.... bud-dup 1 heartbeat away from the presidency

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