May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here. -- Ronald Reagan

Thursday, June 24, 2010

That Sucking Sound You Hear Isn't Oil Being Skimmed

The sucking sound you do hear is the vacuum left by the lack of leadership from the White House. I've been writing since the second month of the Obama administration that this guy is a whinny crybaby that has no leadership skills. Because of his lack of any management experience, he can't even handle daily events, let alone an emergency like we have in the Gulf. The crybaby perception is the result of his blaming, over a year and a half into his administration, GW Bush for all his problems. Top rule of leadership is to never say anything about your predecessor.

I ranted in an earlier blog about his do nothingness regarding the Gulf oil disaster. We shouldn't be surprised. This is a guy that voted "present" on nearly every issue when he was in the Illinois Senate, and did the same in the US Senate. In the US Senate, to be fair, he missed a lot a votes because he was out campaigning right after he was elected to that once honorable body. So sometimes he didn't vote "present". He avoided making decisions then, never had to make any decisions before that in his professional life, and is avoiding making decisions now.

His lack of ability to lead or even manage, due to cowardice, has led to the dismissal of a fine General, General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Obama is Commander in Chief, and when in command, there has to be solid missions set out and adhered to until completion. In the military there's flexibility to adjust to the situation on the ground. In Obama's oligarchy, he has academics and political operatives that have no understanding of the military. If the top of the command structure is in disarray, then the subordinates will reflect that. McChrystal and his staff were wrong in what they did, but when their boss and his staff are incompetent, argue about the results they want what the mission is, it's a problem. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Biden, Gen. David Petraeus, Richard Holbrooke and their staffs all argue about the mission in Afghanistan, sending mixed messages to the Military. I guarantee you this is felt all down the ranks, and is seriously demoralizing. I experienced it first hand while in the Navy during the Carter administration. Remember, McChrystal asked for 40,000-45,000 additional troops for optimal success of the mission in Afghanistan, and after 10 months of waiting he got 30,000 promised, plus a deadline for end of the campaign. The inept Obama does not understand that if you tell your enemy your intentions, he will exploit it and kill your troops while doing other serious damage. US troop deaths are up. No surprise there. The Afghanistan mission is on the road to failure. I think that because Obama is so incompetent, the US Military should be withdrawn from the theater before he gets anymore servicemen killed.

Then there's the disaster in the Gulf, and right now 59% of the American people don't think he's handling it well. My thoughts on Obama's incompetency and inability, along with timeline of events and non-action here.

Money. Yesterday or the day before it was announced that the Democrat controlled Congress won't pass a budget, which is mandated by the Constitution. Actually it's one of the few things the Constitution says is a duty of the government. I'm not sure, but I don't think, at least in my lifetime, that Congress has not submitted a budget. I haven't even heard if Obama submitted a budget. Usually by this time of the legislative year, if there were a Republican president, we'd be hearing the Jurassic Press saying "the president's budget is dead on arrival". After looking at a $1.3 trillion increase in spending in about a year, the largest increase in domestic spending since WWII, and a multi-$trillion increase on a massive health care and insurance bill with no way to pay for it, this country is on track to have it's debt exceed the value of the assets of the country. No leadership here. He simply doesn't know what to do. He doesn't understand economics any more that he understands the military.

He's failed with the economy. He's failed with the military. He's failed with the crisis in the Gulf. The enemies of Western Civilization are rattling their sabers even louder because they know he's weak and a coward. We are in grave danger because an indecisive child is in a man's position of power.

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