How is it that seemingly millions of Americans are not outraged by Obama's egregious lack of action in Libya and the Mideast as thousands are slaughtered?
If we don't get involved now and pay a small price, we will be paying a far greater price later on.
His disengagement at home as well is reckless, inexcusable and despicable.
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These are not halcyon days but judging by Obama’s frivolous and hedonist activities, you may be fooled. He has consumed plenty of time assessing and completing picks for the NCAA basketball brackets. Obama has also indulged in several White House parties, money raising events, basketball and golfing outings over the last few weeks. This weekend he is even going to Rio.
All fun.
Zero leadership or signs of responsibility.
Zilch!
The budget is at an impasse with an impending government shut-down. Obama’s only contribution here was an irresponsible, reckless and disingenuous plan adding $1.7 billion to the deficit just in one year.
Effective unemployment is over 10% and underemployment is around 20%. Tens of millions of Americans are suffering … while Obama parties and cavorts.
Revolutions and uprisings are occurring all over the Mideast and thousands are being slaughtered in Libya. Egypt. Tunisia. Bahrain. Saudia Arabia. Obama is “monitoring” the situations.
Iran continues developing nuclear weapon capabilities and is exporting and subsidizing terrorism. Obama is not home right now.
A nuclear apocalypse may be evolving in Japan. Obama has said little.
The list goes on…
This “president” is a disaster for America and the world.
More vehemence need be expressed and effective actions taken against him to rectify these situations.
The White House Disengages
Investor’s Business Daily 03/15/2011
Leadership: When Democrats held Congress, the Obama agenda was audacious. Today, faced with global unrest and an economic reckoning, the president is filling out basketball brackets and scolding school bullies.
'There is only one president," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., told Politico this week, when asked if President Obama should be exercising leadership toward reforming America's out-of-control entitlement spending programs, such as Medicare and Social Security.
The soothsayer famously told Julius Caesar to "beware the ides of March." One of the priority items for Obama on Tuesday, March 15, was taping his picks for the NCAA basketball tournament.
Last week, the president and the first lady were holding a "White House Conference on Bullying Prevention," at which he recalled being taunted because of "big ears and the name that I have." He lamented recent youthful suicides, such as those of Ty Field and Carl Walker-Hoover.
We can't just accept that "kids will be kids," Obama insisted, citing data showing that many American students have been "pushed, shoved, tripped, even spit on."
Then, of course, there is the partying. Late last month, the president and first lady treated themselves to an East Room concert by Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, comedian Jamie Foxx and others. At previous soirees, the Obama White House has hosted Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and even a cavalcade of stars from Broadway shows.
And let's not forget former Beatle Paul McCartney being flown in from England to sing "Michelle" to the first lady and attack President George W. Bush from the East Room stage.
As House Speaker John Boehner's office has pointed out, when Democrats were running Congress and Obama's legacy was at stake, the president "went 'all in' to push through his job-crushing health care law."
Now, after historic elections in which the voters were so troubled by the Democrats' trillions of dollars in new spending that they turned over the House to the Republicans, Obama chooses to play small ball.
The president plans new spending of $8.7 trillion, which would add over $7 trillion to the national debt during the coming decade. At more than three-fourths of the entire U.S. economy, this spending comes to nearly twice the debt that plagued us before the recession.
Yet as the federal government goes deeper into debt but keeps expanding, we have a president using the bully pulpit to generate enthusiasm for Washington bureaucrats supervising kids' elementary school recess. Instead of videotaping basketball picks, why isn't Obama working hard to find common ground with House Republicans as they craft proposals for the fundamental reform of Medicare and Medicaid?
There can be no budget balancing without reduced Medicare and Social Security benefits, and everyone knows it. But members of Congress from both parties won't embrace cuts or raise the retirement age absent presidential leadership. So where is it?
If we're to believe what White House aides have again and again told the press, one of this president's favorite maxims is, "Let's not play small ball." But what Obama is doing now is chapter and verse out of the Bill Clinton manual on triangulation — and its ultimate purpose is his own political self-preservation.
Clinton fought urban crime by funding midnight basketball tournaments and emptily promising 100,000 new police. He "reformed" public education by requiring school uniforms. And he "cleaned up" the culture by requiring TVs to have V-chips — which surveys show hardly any parents ever use.
The Japan earthquakes are threatening the nuclear power renaissance this president promised, the U.S. is impotent as the Mideast burns and Islamist terrorists wait to exploit the instability, and our still-tepid economy remains threatened by out-of-control entitlements.
Conrad says "there is only one president." But where is he? And how many more Democrats will it take to get him to step up and fulfill his responsibilities.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/566096/201103151855/The-White-House-Disengages.htm
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For those of us who knew that Obama the candidate for President was not who he claimed that he was and that he posed a substantial danger to America, we are not surprised by his attacks on the foundations of America. What is somewhat shocking and disheartening is how rapidly, severe and widespread his destructive actions have been on our way of life, rights, finances, freedoms, security, future, etc. There are no epochs in our history that have been anywhere near as noxious for the Country or the individual as this “president’s” two years.
To paraphrase one of his (narcissistic) slogans: “He is the one that the Founding Fathers were warning us about.”
Obama must be stopped. Neither the United States nor much of the world can afford 2 more years of his arrogant, corrupt, criminal, narcissistic, profligate, hedonistic misrule and tyranny.
Obama's First Two Years a Disaster for America
Chad Stafko March 16, 2011
Recall the euphoria that surrounded Barack Obama during the 2008 election season and after he was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. Life was going to be blue skies and rainbows, or at least we were told, with hope and change on the way. The American people would be better off and so would our nation with Obama in control. After a little more than two years as the President, those blue skies have turned gray with not the slightest hint of a rainbow.
Some professed that with Barack Obama as President, the staples of life would become affordable if not altogether free. Surely you remember Peggy Joseph who said, at a Barack Obama campaign event in August 2008, that she would not have to worry about paying for her gas and mortgage. Consider what has happened to those staples of life during the Obama presidency.
As of March 14, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.57/gallon. When Obama took office in January 2009, the price was $1.81/gallon. That represents more than a 90% increase in just over two years.
To put that in perspective, assume you have a 40 mile round trip commute to work, your car gets 20 miles per gallon and that prices remain the same going forward. Relative to January 2009, you are paying about $18 more per week and about $72 more per month at the pump.
The pertinent question we might ask is, "What has President Obama done in the past two years to limit the rise of oil and gasoline prices, if anything?" The answer is...nothing. If anything, his policies have contributed towards rising prices. Recall the moratorium he enacted on oil drilling following the BP oil spill that further limited the supply of the commodity from our own waters. His failure to support drilling in ANWR and his overt allegiance to the anti-drilling environmental fringe has also directly contributed to less supply of oil and therefore higher oil prices.
Ms. Joseph also looked forward to Obama paying her mortgage. Well, many Americans don't have to worry about a mortgage anymore, as they've had their houses foreclosed. In 2009, a record 2,824,674 foreclosures took place, while 2,872,892 foreclosures occurred in 2010. In other words, 5.7 million families have lost their homes, but at least they're not up all night wondering how they will pay their mortgage.
It just wasn't supposed to be this way, at least in the eyes of the 53% of voters who cast their ballot for Barack Obama. After all, President Obama's policies were going to reignite the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8% at least that is what we were told, thereby making those aforementioned mortgages affordable. The opposite has occurred.
In December 2008, President Bush's final full month in office, the nation's unemployment rate stood at 7.3%. From that point until December 2010, a period in which Obama benefited from accommodative Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, the unemployment rate rose to 10.1% at one time and remained at or above 9.5% from July 2009 until November 2010.
This resulted despite unprecedented government spending labeled as "economic stimulus."
What happened? Instead of a surge in America's economic growth, we've seen a surge in America's deficit. Under the direction of President Obama, the United States has seen its deficit increase by more than $3 trillion or by nearly $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.
Then there was the promise of "When there's a bill that ends up on my desk, as President, you, the public, will have five days to look online to find out what's in it before I sign it...." Again, the reality has been the complete opposite.
Rewind to March 2010, when then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in reference to the ObamaCare bill, said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Really? I thought that 2,700 page bill would be posted on the Internet for all to view for five days. Instead, it was rushed through and pushed down our throats, despite most Americans not in favor of it. Again, Obama failed to deliver, as he has time after time.
We are now just after the halfway point of the Obama presidency. Based on the facts, we are no better off as a nation than we were when Obama took office. The average American citizen has failed to see an improvement in his or her lifestyle versus two years ago. This is a presidency, up to this point, that has been an absolute disaster for our nation and our people.
Chad Stafko is a writer and political consultant living in the Midwest. He can be reached at stafko@msn.com
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obamas_first_two_years_a_disas.html
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This is an absolute scathing commentary by an expert regarding Obama's utter ineptitude and amateurishness regarding foreign policy, directed partially at the Egyptian crisis. The questioning MSNBC far left cheerleaders are horrified by his unbridled attacks - as this is their messiah who is being taken to the woodshed, shot and quartered.
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