Japan may be on the verge of an unprecedented catastrophe. Saudi Arabia is all but colonizing Bahrain. Qaddafi is close to retaking Libya, with bloodbath to follow. And, as Jim Geraghty notes, the president of the United States is going on ESPN to talk about the NCAA and delivering speeches today on his rather dull plan to replace No Child Left Behind with No Teenager Left Behind, or something like that.
It’s hard to overstate how poorly Barack Obama is doing in the face of these crises — and I don’t even mean how he’s doing substantively, which is a scandal in itself. I mean how he’s doing politically. Recall how much hay Michael Moore made of the fact that George W. Bush read My Pet Goat for nine minutes in that Florida classroom on 9/11 after being informed that the first plane had struck.
We’re going on four weeks now, or more, that Barack Obama has been reading My Pet Goat.
How dare the President not get us into another war (or two, or three!) and kill thousands of Libyans! How dare he fail to use his Kryptonian superpowers to single-handedly save Japan from nuclear disaster! Why he's...he's acting calm and rational, the bastard!
I've seen some prime Obama hate in the last three years, but trying to pin the Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster plus Libya and Bahrain on Obama because he filled out his NCAA basketball picks is borderline psychosis. Even better, Obama is more than happy to talk about the broken state of school education in the country, something that we all need to worry about here as Americans. But that would be an act of governance of the country, something J-Pod and his screaming horde want nothing to do with.
Yes, how dare the President not act like a comic book character and instead take a measured and intelligent approach to events, many of which he cannot control. And for all their bellowing that we can't afford to spend anything extra and have to make tens of billions in immediate cuts, these same fools want us to commit to yet another expensive theater of war with an air campaign that would have to be followed by a ground one.
Besides, I thought Presidents were supposed to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. No doubt if Obama went into lockdown mode, we'd be hearing J-pod here complain that the President was insulating himself in the beltway bubble again.
Anyone who is equating the Bush administration failure to prevent 9/11 to Obama not starting a third war of choice needs to be laughed off the national stage.
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