My main complaint about President Obama is his complete failure of leadership. We have big problems and he hasn’t a clue about how to lead us out.
Obama also makes me angry, just as much as W did but for different reasons. Bush was always smirking. The current guy admits he hasn’t led but wants me to accept that it’s not his fault.
Frankly, I see failure on the President’s part in both foreign and domestic affairs and I’m losing count of the examples but here are two, either one of which I think warrant the President’s pink slip.
Try these thoughts from the liberal Economist Magazine.
The Union’s State Is Dire
Jan 28th 2012, Economist print edition
This article is full of reasons to change Presidents but it also highlights one of my biggest problems with President Obama. Please don’t confuse me with my Congressman Joe You-lie Wilson. And I can assure you that I am aware that all politicians are happily fact free but this President is in my mind a singularly egregious liar. A favorite example of mine was stated this way by the Economist: “The president implied falsely once again that squeezing the rich was the key to taming the deficit, instead of admitting that returning the public finances to a sustainable path will require higher taxes all round and painful reforms of health and pension entitlements.”
My second highlight is this excellent column by Robert Samuelson which lists the good news about America’s energy situation and lays out the truth regarding both energy independence and the wildly unattainable objectives of the climate morons.
A Brighter Energy Future?
By Robert J. Samuelson - Washington Post
Monday, Jan. 30, 2012
I find the President’s personal refusal to begin work on the Keystone pipeline reason enough alone to send him packing. The pipeline would create 10,000 jobs plus thousands more in support and maintenance, make us more energy independent, move import expenditures to friends and away from enemies, grow the economy, help grow a major American industry [refining] and help to increase American exports. All of these are objectives claimed by the President and yet for carelessly calculated political reasons, he has arrogantly and personally mandated against the project. And make no mistake, this decision will in no way change America’s current or future emissions even by one atom – he counts on the climate crazies to be too dumb to know that.
A PostScript:
For those who read the Economist article, you may have been as confused as N and I were by the obscure reference in this sentence: [President Obama’s] “talk about reversing the flow of manufacturing jobs abroad brought to mind the words “King” and “Canute”.” This had to be looked up.
“Canute the Holy” was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. He was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy, devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church, and had designs on the English throne. Slain by rebels in 1086, he was the first Dane to be canonized. His subjects were unaccustomed to a king who claimed such overreaching powers and who interfered so much in their daily lives.
I doubt even Danes, let alone Brits and Americans are going to get something this esoteric.