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Once again, Karl Rove hits the nail on the head. obama's foreign policy or should I say, lack of foreign policy is lessening the United States in the eyes of the world. One would think that he would eventually keep his mouth shut on matters for which he has no head. Instead he continues to spout tough sounding rhetoric with very little substance and no follow up. It is our duty to assist those in Libya seeking freedom. In may not be in the form of troops or an invasion. But a simple no-fly zone would allow the rebels an opportunity to catch their breath and regroup. The airstrikes by the Libyan military keep the rebels on their heels and unable to gain ground.
obama's failure to lead on the budget, again, failure to lead is too light, his failure to participate in the process at all, has made him look foolish and immature. He criticizes, yet he adds nothing of substance to the conversation. The democrats, in return, try to get by with the bare minimum of participation, but thwart any progress by the Republicans. It has created an atmosphere similar to elementary school. The back and forth bickering with nothing being accomplished gives us in the real world very little to be hopeful about. We are not the idiots congress and obama take us for. We see the future of our Country and the financial ruin we are headed for.
obama claims to be uninvolved in the Wisconsin union battle. Yet he sent his pit bulls from organizing for America and makes snide little comments at every opportunity. His involvement runs much deeper than he would have us believe. He is very involved, but his refusal to admit it and show open support have angered many in his union base. He has revealed himself to be a coward on about every front. Just like his days in the Illinois senate voting present.
I'm still amazed that such a man has been able to ascend to such a level. He has no conviction, no strength and no spine. He is unwilling or unable to take a stand on any issue that opponents could use to pin him down. One would think that the president of the United States would do the right thing, always, and the critics be damned. I hope this experiment in socialism has reminded us why it has failed many times and in many places...
By Karl Rove - FoxNews
Last week was a bad week for America because it was a bad week for President Obama.
West Wing politicos may not share that opinion. They seem to think any week during which the president makes a speech or holds a news conference is a good week: Americans get to see the amazing, inspiring Mr. Obama. But three images of Mr. Obama from last week are hardly uplifting.
First, there was the president on Libya -- dithering, indecisive, unreliable, and weak. As Qaddafi’s mercenaries and bombers brutally grabbed back momentum from the democratic opposition, all Mr. Obama could say was, “My national security team has been working…to monitor the situation…to prepare the full range of options…”
If America’s failure to lead allows Qaddafi to snuff out the popular uprising against his dictatorship and regain power, the consequences for the U.S. will be severe. Dictators will know the U.S. president is a pushover. Our allies around the world will be dispirited and our adversaries emboldened.
Then there was the on-going budget battle. The failure of Mr. Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass a budget before the start of the fiscal year last October 1 is an astonishing act of incompetence. They controlled the entire process with wide margins in both houses. Now we are reduced to funding the government of the world’s most powerful nation with continuing resolutions that cover two or three-week periods. And Congressional Democrats are whining it is impossible to cut $60 billion out of a budget that consists of $3.8 trillion dollars.
At a Friday morning press conference Mr. Obama called the failure to pass a budget “irresponsible” and said “the notion that we can’t get resolved last year’s budget in a sensible way…defies common sense.” But he was not passive observer. He’s the president who failed to get his own budget approved by his own party last year.
Then Mr. Obama went on to say of the budget that “it shouldn’t be that complicated…to get this completed.” This came after weeks during which Democratic Congressional leaders criticized the president for providing no leadership, then the appointment by Mr. Obama of Vice President Joe Biden as his personal negotiator on the budget, and Mr. Biden’s almost immediate departure for a weeklong foreign trip. Mr. Obama still refused to get his hands dirty by offering a possible solution.
Then there were the president’s remarks to members of the National Governors Association on Wisconsin, last month, where he cautioned, “I don’t think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified.”
This was a classic Obama straw man. Who exactly is “vilifying” or “denigrating” whom? The president’s intimation was that it was Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, but Mr. Walker’s tone has been mild, even-tempered, restrained and entirely appropriate.
If there are people who needed a presidential admonishment about civility and respect, they are the protestors who broke into the Wisconsin capital building in a vain attempt to keep the legislature from voting, the protestors who compared Mr. Walker to Adolf Hitler, and the Democratic legislators who fled the state rather than do their duty. But those would be the president’s allies and admonition are only required of his opponents.
When Mr. Obama was in the Illinois State Senate, he had the annoying habit of voting “present” on controversial issues he felt might damage his future political ambitions. -- But at least Mr. Obama showed up then. The president’s refusal now to provide leadership on Libya or the budget and his readiness to score cheap political points with straw man attacks makes his days in the State Senate look like an era of true statesmanship.