Says Michael Goodwin:
Perhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted “present” 130 times in the Illinois Legislature couldn’t possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time.
Yet even the pessimists among us are alarmed by the cloud of uncertainty and confusion hanging over the White House. Less than a year on the job, President Obama seems to have run out of both charm and ideas.
The biggest issues facing a president are the economy and national security. They are the whole ballgame. Everything else is detail.
It is now frighteningly obvious Obama doesn’t have a clear, understandable strategy on either.
It’s one thing to lack confidence in a president’s plan. It’s quite another when he doesn’t have a plan.
He began his hokey job summit by conceding many viewed it as a gimmick, then promptly confirmed those suspicions by saying it was time to put aside partisanship. This from the guy who gives blank checks and high praise to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the most partisan congressional leaders in recent memory.
Obama also said he was open to new ideas, then shot down a corporate executive who complained too many big-government initiatives were creating uncertainty and leading employers to hold off hiring.
The president said it was a “legitimate concern,” then plunged ahead by rote to defend health care, carbon taxes and massive education spending — the very things the exec said were the problem.
Why bother telling him anything? He doesn’t listen to what he doesn’t want to hear.
“He doesn’t listen to what he doesn’t want to hear.” That’s because Obama really believes he is a “more perfect” being when compared to us “regular folk”. He is the Anointed One. He is the Carrier Of The Torch. That’s what millions told him last year, and he believes it still.
“The president said it was a “legitimate concern,” then plunged ahead by rote to defend health care, carbon taxes and massive education spending — the very things the exec said were the problem.” Obama believes that he is not a representative of the people, but The One with a single vision, a Mighty Shepherd that must lead the Sheep to the Promised Land. He doesn’t know where the Promised Land is, nor how to effectively lead his Sheep, but he spends no time worrying why his Sheep are complaining or are not happy.
“This from the guy who gives blank checks and high praise to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the most partisan congressional leaders in recent memory.” Everyone understands that Pelosi, and to a lesser degree Reid, is a rabid Liberal, not anywhere close to a Moderate Democrat. Obama knows he cannot lead, that he is nothing more than a pretty face in front of a teleprompter reading scripts written for him. He may have a vision of American Utopia, but he knows he cannot take us there himself, so he leaves all the dirty work, all the heavy work, to his two little minions Pelosi and Reid. It is them that are actually running this Republic, with Obama doing nothing more than those Talking Heads anchorpeople on the local nightly news programs.
Here is your Hope And Change.
Obama, Reid, Pelosi, health care, carbon tax
