As the leader of this country in the past few months, Barack Obama has been especially ineffectual-more so than an expired Ex-Lax, although the resulting product has been equally excremental! Under pressure to act, he has flown down to Louisiana to inspect the disastrous BP oil spill and to appear engaged in the issue has made a few seemingly affected statements about how he has lost sleep over this whole affair. At the same time, he has turned his back on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel in their perilous situation while managing to vacation, host sports teams and party down like it was 1988!
According to White House agenda notes, in the 50 days since the explosion on the BP oil rig, Horizon, President Obama has flown to Iowa ,Missouri and Buffalo just to have a slice of rhubarb pie at Jerry's Diner, lunch at Peggy Sue's, and hot wings at Duff's. He has held receptions to honor G-20 ministers and Earth Day. He's had several vacations-in Asehville, NC and Chicago with numerous rounds of golf. In between all of that important executive agenda he has thrown in a fancy DNC fundraiser and a Cinco de Mayo party. Does that sound remotely like a national leader who's focused on the needs of his citizens and a pressing crisis that promises to bilk billions from the livelihood of Gulf states? It sounds more like the good-time-Charley antics of a college frat boy!
Why just last week amid bipartisan outcries for some true leadership regarding the worst oil spill in U. S. history, he had Paul McCartney over to the house. The ex-Beatle serenaded Michelle with his song of the same name. The President‘s ‘back-pocket’ media in their celebrity-crazed fever has pointed that out to us totally disinterested folks ad infinitum in the past week. Look, Mr. Obama,you’re not Eddie Van Halen…as if anyone would want to be. You have heavy responsibilities that demand a certain amount of presidential decorum, dignity and, yes, somberness when required.
And you're certainly not Shaquille O'Neal. As much as you like basketball and other sports, it is not your main job to bring all of the teams to Washington for a good time! Again, since the Gulf crisis occurred in April, you have hosted the NY Yankees, The Duke Blue Devils, Navy football and University of Connecticut women's basketball team.
You’re the leader of, what is for now, the free world. There are potential disasters poised to happen all around the globe that need the committed presence of the President of the United States. Do you really have time for beer pong, meeting with U2's Bono and jetting over to Maryland to view...Secret Service binoculars? (What?)
Iran is close to having nukes. Israel is close to war with Iran because of those nukes. Hamas is staging bloody episodes on board blockade-busting “humanitarian” ships to instigate trouble with Israel. North and South Korea are about to time travel to the early 1950s, but it won’t look like it does on MASH reruns!
Now is the time for taking your fingers out of your ears. You have to stop pretending that everything will just go away. These are dangerous times. The world is faced with threats to liberty and freedom everywhere. The world’s economy is going to hades in a hand basket. These are matters that can’t be fixed with a White House memo from Rahm Emmanuel!
Mr. President, the oil spill that is spreading to Florida’s tourism industry is threatening to do more than leave greasy slicks on the backs of local wildlife. Florida is going to suffer financially from this for a very long time. We need answers. We need a government that is willing to sit down with BP, which by the way, I’m sure was merely an oversight in your daily planner.
We need to meet, discuss, organize and delve for realistic, timely solutions. Now is not the time for criticizing former Vice President Cheney-he’s been out of office for two years. Now is not the time for latching onto the disastrous oil spill as political fodder to further your party’s chances in the midterms elections this November.
But you have managed to find plenty of time since the oil spill occurred to host glitzy galas for two world leaders- Karzai and Calderon. ( a sad fact given the shoddy treatment you doled out to our longtime ally, Israel when Netanyahu paid you a visit).
With regards to foreign policy and what's going on in other countries, you can no longer afford to play the part of the heroic, Peace Prize winner who wants to hold hands with terrorists and sing Kum Ba Ya until they all cry uncle, lay down their AK-47s and turn in their jihad blueprints! All of the splendor of a decorated White House ballroom replete with champagne and caviar won't bring Iran and Korea to their senses!
Be a leader Mr. Obama. While there is still time to do something about these formidable problems that face the United States and the world, you need to settle down in your chair in the Oval Office and do the job that so many Americans wrongly chose you to do! Let’s worry about who to prosecute over the oil spill, who to sue and who’s rear end to kick at a later date- shall we say, after we’ve figured out how to permanently plug the oil leak and how to implement the cleanup process?
For better or worse, you’ve got the job you always wanted. But, you seemed to have dived under the desk when the worse times hit. You don’t have that option. You don’t get to ignore matters and close your eyes and hope that when you awaken, Valerie Jarrett has achieved peace in the Middle East between campaign stumps for endangered Democrats..
These are precisely the times that so many of us worried about after your election to the presidency. We’ve been hoping we were wrong. We really don’t want you to fail. If you fail, then we all lose! Yet, nothing you’ve done lately has eased our fears. Please prove us wrong or it may be curtains for this country as well as cataclysmic for the rest of the world.