Hillary Clinton once said, during her run for President against her current boss, that the Presidency was no place for on the job training. She said she would be ready to lead from day one and that she would know what to do when that 3 am call came to the White House. Whether or not true of Hillary, we have learned these last 12 months that it is certainly not true of Barack Obama; Obama was NOT ready to lead from day one and he has failed to lead ever since. His own 3 am calls are going straight to voice mail (he’s out shooting hoops you see, or working on that birdie putt on Maui) and his on the job training continues with very little acquired knowledge to actually show for the troubles he has caused Americans.
Most of his campaign promises, and much of his agenda since being elected, have been based on a commitment to being “un-Bush” whenever, wherever, and however possible. From economics to war, Obama has built a Presidency based on undermining and undoing as much of his predecessor’s work as possible and blaming all the world’s troubles on former President Bush under the auspices of bringing the American people hope and change (as if the 8 previous years in America were fraught with hopelessness and stagnation). In promising to end a war in Iraq because the enemy is (and always was) in Afghanistan, Obama assured us that the fight is with Al Qaeda, yet he has done nothing more than capitulate America’s strength and position around the world to those very same people who have worked diligently over the past 8 years to kill us.