How can history be an accurate record when the elusive present is being recorded as wild distortions of reality? The mainstream media’s (MSM) record of the White House, which it reflects onto the American perspective, as well as it’s flaccid ruminations on the Obama Administration, commemorate Napoleon’s, “history is the invention of historians.” Obama is failing in his duty to country, and the MSM refuses to acknowledge the evidence.
The word history comes to us from the Greek word historia, which means knowledge acquired by investigation. The White House press corps is the supreme example of the current Fourth Estate’s inability to analyze, question or investigate as it panders to a President who was given a mandate to affect change in Washington. History is being distorted as it is being written.
The expectations of the taxpayers have not materialized, and anticipations have given way to disappointments, yet the MSM cannot bring itself to raise any serious questions. It’s not as if opportunities to question don’t exist. Obama has given a speech each and every working day of every week of his administration. Research should prove that no President in history will have made as many speeches, yet the Nation is stuck in anticipation of substance.
The latest sampling of this President’s systemic tepid engagement in his job as America’s CEO, came in the form of an unenthusiastic tropical response to the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253. Evidently the managerial capacities required to direct an administration were not part of the Obama tool-set when he moved into the White House. The blight from the dearth of experience, and the entrenched ideology in his Cabinet and czar brigade, has been unveiling endless failings from the outset, and yet, Obama can’t dismiss the likes of incompetents such as Napolitano. Admitting a mistake of posting would be a sign of confidence, rather than one of insecurity.
Political debts of this Administration run deep. The billion dollars Obama raised to win the Presidency expect influence. He lost all objectivity and independence from such influence long before he moved into the White House. Unfortunately, such is the state of politics in Washington. With tingling in its legs, the MSM gives his failures a pass, and in doing so, it forsakes its responsibilities to American taxpayers. The media refuses to demand the most important and reasonable expectation of the population – it refuses to demand Leadership.
Obama has been hiding behind the teleprompter long enough, and should be confronted with the obvious, the first of which is his tiresome blaming of the Bush Administration to deflect all responsibility for the economic and security challenges of America.
Obama and the current Congress are responsible for the accelerated government growth and spending of the past year. They are intimately and directly responsible for disastrous and ill advised programs such as Cash for Clunkers, bailouts for the Too-Big-To-Fails, dishonest promotions of a two thousand page health care bill, inept indulgence of Wall Street, bold pandering to special interests, and the explosion of unemployment to over 17%.
This Administration appears to be ensconced in the belief that a broad and rapid expansion of government, and its insinuation into all walks of American life, is the answer to economic problems facing the Nation. To be allowed his ramp-up of government, Obama validated in Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and their Wall Street friends, a right to abuse taxpayers through a confoundingly complex cash grab, and a purchase of unknown toxic assets. The Administration further succumbed to special interests by obliterating any calls for the return of Glass-Steagall. This White House is completely void of any understanding of the key drivers of the American way of life – the small to mid-sized businesses. It is also flailingly uninterested in genuinely furthering its own education on the subject. It has become evident that this President has no interest in fostering the encouragement and stimulation of the entrepreneurial spirit in America.
Obama also seems confused on the international front, having administered one misstep after another with perpetual miscues in his actions, and in the perceptions he leaves in his wake. The vexing list is rather embarrassingly extensive, and it includes everything from Obama’s extravagant bowing to a dictator, then to his doubling over to a king. At the other end of the perplexing-Obama-acts record is the snubbing slight of the Prime Minister of America’s biggest trading partner, Canada’s Stephen Harper. Harper was shown to a back door of the White House, and was received by an administrative minion since Obama was too “busy.”
More substantively, Obama extracted nothing from Russia when he reversed the proposed installation of a European missile defense system. Now Iran runs amok, with ample time to hide its nuclear fuel and uranium enrichment facilities. Hard sanctions on Iran? That would be a “hard” decision, very much in opposition to the appeasement strategy employed to date. Have we so soon forgotten the Administration’s condemnation of the constitutional removal of Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran, America hating, Hugo-Chavez supported despot? Given the MSM’s refusal to confront this President, we have also no doubt forgotten Obama’s appeasement, and offers of some engaging “rapprochement,” to the murderous Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan and his homicidal regime.
There was broadly felt consternation with Obama’s response to the Fort Hood massacre, and dismay with the languid nature of his address to the cadets as he announced that he was sending 30,000 young men and women into Afghanistan. No matter how much earnestness the President now pretends to convey in his prepared addresses, he long ago lost any appearance of authenticity, and the authoritative was reduced to an eerily natural self-righteousness. The capping may have been the weak-minded, insecure and vain B+ self grading.
Some have accused Obama of dithering, particularly on concerns of international affairs and national security. “Dithering,” is a colorful term, but is inappropriate here. Obama is simply incapable and unqualified. He was given ample room to demonstrate the claims of his intelligence. Wasn’t he a professor with a law degree, after all? Didn’t he rouse audiences with a couple of lofty speeches that bordered on sermons during the campaign? Yes he did. And, . . . well, that’s it.
His detachment, and apparent lack of passion, was initially rationalized as “well, he’s listening and he’s thinking.” Now this insensibility surprises, even befuddles, a majority of the electorate that launched him into office. Whether or not he actually lacks passionate disposition toward his country is no longer relevant. Smart or not, is also irrelevant. He is not a leader, and that, he cannot, and will not change.
America still waits for promises of speeches, given during the most expensive Presidential campaign in history, to materialize into actions that will be positive for a Nation facing unprecedented debt, deficits and unemployment. Though it yearns for leadership, America now knows better than to anticipate it from this President, and knows that such misplaced hope is too disheartening.
While the MSM continues its fawning ways, America will look to the next Presidential election to find a strong and willful leader. America doesn’t want or expect to support all of its President’s policies, or decisions, or compromises, or appeasements, however, America wants to know it has a leader of integrity who is never in doubt, and who makes it proud. America wants a leader who takes decisive actions nationally and internationally. America wants, and deserves a leader who says, “I will not rest until, . . .” and then doesn’t jump onto Airforce One, heading off on another golfing trip, or other holiday, or other speech in another zip code.
One good piece of news: The vacuous promises of Hope and Change will be decidedly wiped from the lexicon of Presidential campaigns for at least one generation.
Crossposted from The Pacific Gate Post
A constituent of the vast baby boomer generation with a career which has been fortunate to know the ponderous corporate worlds, as well as the intimately pressurized, and invigorating entrepreneurial domains of high tech and venture capital, I have harvested my share of mistakes meandering through corridors of enterprise from Silicon Valley, to London and endless, colourful, sometimes praetorian points in between. The voyage has provided an abundance of fodder for a pen yielding to an inquisitive keyboard, a foraging mind, and a passionate spirit.
Whether political or business or social or economic or personal, is it not all political? It is a privilege to write, and an even greater privilege to be read by anyone, and sometimes with the wind at my back the writing may occasionally be legible. I do not write to invite scorn, nor to invite respect, but if I get really lucky the writing can stimulate thinking. I also write for the very selfish purpose of animating my own processes, and engaging the best of what life offers. Above all, whether biting fire or swatting shadows, I am grateful to be gifted the freedom to write and publish whatever flows down to the keyboard. To all those who enabled this freedom, and to all those standing guard to preserve it, I am indebted.
PEBO so reminds me of all the CEO’s of the companies I have worked for that get hired to lead the company but end up doing nothing but sending out e-mails about working together and making them proud to work there. When it comes to actually making decisions they never fail to choose the wrong course of action, cost the company millions of dollars and end up “retiring” early with a huge buy out and no blemish on their records. Two years later we get another one with his book o’ catch phrases under his arm promising the same things the last 5 CEO’s promised with different words.
Leadership? From this administration? The main objective of this administration is to create chaos in order to promote the neo world order of Islamism and Communism.
Please do read the following article. Coptics in Egypt are now being targeted by Islamic Jihadists in their quest to eliminate any infidels in the region. The same religious zealots are working hard to get Jews out of our promise land, as well as Christians.
What is our President doing? Leadership?
Meantime, Al-Assad and Ahmadinejab are already discussing a new world order.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200905294948/global-terrorism/iran-and-syria-are-leading-a-new-world-order-and-the-west-is-over.html
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=52325
Our dear reader is an actor not a thinker.
You notice how most screen actors when seen in person seem to just strut around and smile? It’s what happens to you when you read scripts for a living, or teleprompters for that matter. You can’t think, because all you do is read. And when they do speak, you ask yourself, are they that dumb. Painfully the answer is yes they are. Smile, don’t talk.
@ Aleric,
That unfortunately happens way too often. Boards of Directors in the Fortune 1000 are too intertwined for there to be real objectivity. Not enough CEOs get turfed unceremoniously without severance.
Can’t wait to read Obama’s next two autobiographies. They should prove to be as insightless as his first two narcissistic diatribes. No doubt we’ll read how great it is to travel on Airforce One, and how good his teleprompter sermons were.
@ URI,
PREDICTION:
Obama providing terrorists the capacity to Lawyer UP, will prove to be his most dangerous decision, and his undoing. The backlash on this absurd decision will drive his polls into the tank in 2010.
Obama has eliminated any chance of interrogating terrorists, even with velvet gloves on. So much for any possibility of extracting factual information on the broader network, organizations or tactics these murderers are using.
Obama will now have no leverage with these lunatics but to ask his lawyer in chief Eric Holder to provide lenient sentences in exchange for information. This is no doubt very satisfying for his warped crowd of minions in the White House, and for his extreme fringe supporters.
Can things get any more strange? .
Looks like we’re gonna have to wait for 3 more years….
Sigh~
Sarah Palin is that leader.
@Tom N,
After the current leader is finished decimating the landscape, I suspect America will want a much stronger, and more experienced leader than what we have seen from Palin. The Obama experience will have burned the roads and bridges for many coming up the ranks.
James… after BO and his traveling circus is done socking it to us, we will be more than willing to go with someone who says what she means and means what she says. She’s got more experience and common sense – not to mention PATRIOTISM – than BO will ever have!
He’s only been screwing us for one year – imagine what he will do in the next 3.
Pray for our country!
Sadly, any Real Leadership requires, integrity, experience in crisis management, honesty, good judgment, humility and guts.
I quite frankly do NOT know anyone with those values and character traits that would allow themselves to become soiled with today’s version of politics or dealing with today’s slimy career politicians on a daily basis. The term guilt by association kinda sticks in my mind.
@Old Trooper:
I read earlier today that al Qaeda attacked the CIA base in retaliation to the drone strikes that killed their militants.
When picked up the local paper today I found that the CIA chief that was killed was a young lady from my town. Earlier I had a heavy feeling that that attack was close, but when PatVann mentioned that one of his friends died in that devastating suicide bombing I thought my intuition was picking up on that. It was closer.
What the local paper was missing was Obama responding to our loss.
You were saying:
Where is it?
Old Trooper, very fitting comment. Seems on par with Geroge Washington’s:
Nothing about this current White House or Congress is even remotely honorable in reputation. Even Bush had his faults and issues. If now is the time for the legal American Citizen to rise and grasp the powers invested and entitled to them by the United States Consitution. We, as a People, can not rely souly on the two party system and the bloated machines that both parties use to cut out and eek out the very people who built this nation and allow only elitists whom carry only special intrests to the floor of Congress.
Missy, sadly you are correct on the assassination of the Station Chief. That comes from allowing Foreign Governments to Vet Agents due to a lack of CIA HUMINT capabilities. We do not have a robust CIA with operatives vetted entirely by the CIA.
We have had not had that since the end of actually the Kennedy Administration. With the exception of the Reagan Administration, each successive Congress and Administration has reduced the CIA World profile and relied upon “Allies” or “Others” to do the HUMINT work, often with disastrous consequences. Jordan, in this case is responsible for this tragedy.
The CIA is now a very questionable source of information although they have some very stellar folks on the payroll. The prime issue in my opinion has been making National Security Advisor, CIA Director, Counter Terrorism crew to answer to Fools or Janet Napolitano that caps it all
under criminal negligence and incompetence for me.
Adults are in charge in Military AFPAK at my level.
I worry about the morale and loyalty of the agents within the Intellegence agencies as they are slammed by the likes such as Speaker Pelosi or President Obama. The more these agencies get assaulted politicaly at a domestic side, the greater the risk of quting from the Government duties and a seeking another career in the private sector.
@ Mr. Irons,
. . . . It is also not helpful that the Intelligence community has been further hindered by enabling the worse offenders, and terrorists to “Lawyer Up.”
We’ll offer them clemency to get info on their networks?
Just like the military, shouldn’t the Intel community be provided the sense that the country is behind it? NOT against it?
Billtb, excellent point, I have worked for many of the Hollywood types: what a disappointment it is to realize the screen heroes of your youth were a bunch of empty vessels for the most part. Relying on someone else to supply you your lines must leave an empty shell. Obama is a perfect example.
For example, did you know that James Arness or Marshall Dillon couldn’t gallup two strides on a horse without having someone to catch him. Sorry to disappoint you Gunsmoke fans, but the whole thing was a hoax: sort of like our very own C-I-C, a manufactured piece of crap.
For the record, John Wayne could ride and enjoyed helping the wranglers with the livestock. Although most of them couldn’t lead a stick horse to water.