James Sefcak (Yuma Sun, June 15) excoriated us for totally ignoring the fact that President Obama “has had numerous and very successful accomplishments with his logical agenda” I am not sure what he means by the president’s “logical agenda,” but’s it’s telling that in 7 column inches Mr. Sefcak was unable to mention one of those accomplishment.
Mr. Sefcak also commends Obama for his intelligent leadership, a defensible position if you define leadership as watching calmly above the fray. It is patently clear that the Medicare and Medicaid programs are unsustainable. The problem simply must be addressed. What is Obama’s proposal? That we must stop Republicans from killing seniors outright. His leadership is so lacking that he couldn’t get a budget passed for 2010 when his party had control of both congressional houses. He has a difficult time making decisions. He voted “present” 129 times as a legislator in Illinois.
Because their countries were being overrun with refuges, England and France convinced Obama to take on Gadhafi, an action that seems to be diametrically opposed to his own statements regarding international relations. Nor is he able to get NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to commit much for either of the missions he has taken on in Afghanistan and Lybia. Just last week, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates heaped heavy criticism on European nations for their apparent incapability and unwillingness to pull their weight.
And there is no doubt that President Obama is a socialist. Time magazine has admitted that “We are all socialists now.” Social Security and Medicare, the two biggest boondoggles at the federal level, are socialistic in both theory and practice. Obama has simply carried socialistic trends one step further setting up government systems to run auto industry and big banks and run the country’s healthcare system.
The more convincing bit of evidence regarding Obama’s gravitas, his leadership potential, was his tenure as Editor of the Harvard Law Review, but the managing editor of the program said that “Obama loved the title, but he didn’t want to do the work.” The managing editor said he rarely saw Obama except when it was to “take credit (and praise) for what was being done,” and that Obama never wrote one thing for the review during his tenure, something unheard of.
John Podhoretz said that Obama began his presidency as a potential colossus but he has become the Bartleby the President. He would prefer not to.
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