Posted by
Catmman on Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:14:11 PM
Alternate title: Never send a community organizer to do a Presidents job.
President Obama has allowed a group of thug/criminal/terrorist SOB's to stand toe to toe with the United States, seize our property (
yet again today it seems), kidnap and ransom our citizens, threaten further violence (indeed our inaction thus far seems to have emboldened these SOB's as the previous link shows) and we have done...what exactly?
So far,
zippo. Our esteemed president must indeed feel overly tired from his Europe and other countries tour last week, since he has yet to even comment on the situation. How does this make you feel as a citizen? Put yourself in the shoes of the current Captain held hostage, except you know that your own President doesn't even feel the need to make at least a BS gesture of defiance in front of the cameras for your sake. Your life and the lives of other Americans aren't as important as "housing". How does this make you feel as a citizen of this country?
Of course the Left and Obama apologists will excuse his behavior away and if the situation comes off alright, his inaction will be taken as some stroke of foreign policy genius, when in fact he did nothing at all -
not even make a comment on what was going on.
This from
Ace: (
emphasis mine)
Obama doesn't seem to be doing much about any of this except distancing himself from the situation, so as to avoid being Jimmy Carterized.
But he can't distance himself. He's the president, not a senator, not a community organizer, and not a candidate for president.
As I figured, Obama is seeking not to solve foreign policy crises
through action, but to avoid giving them any press coverage by
studiously refusing any comment, hoping to take the oxygen out of the
story and hence limit how big it gets. Not solving the crisis, but
merely trying to keep people from envisioning it as a crisis that needs
solving at all.
By doing so he's signaled a reluctance to deal forcefully with the pirates, and, surprise surprise, they've become emboldened.
These 'pirates' as they've been labled have stared into the eyes of the greatest military power on earth and made her blink. Not through any fault of that military power, but by the ineptitide and apparent cowardice of her leader President Obama and his administration.