Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:06:38 AM
A visibly uncomfortable and ineffective Barack Obama dwafted by the more gifted, commanding and eloquent David Cameron at Tuesday's joint press conference.
Our teenager in chief's immaturity and unfitness to lead America and the Free World were on full display yesterday when he appeared with Conservative PM David Cameron at a press conference in London.
After the humiliating drumming that he took from Netanyahu last week (which continued into Monday with Bibi's stirring House speech), followed by his embarrassing toast to England's Queen (making America in Trump's words, "the laughing stock of the world") Obama didn't seem too pleased sharing the stage with the handsome, voluble, upright Cameron-who put him to shame (
see here).
After the glorious killing of bin Laden three weeks ago (preceeded by seven months of indecision) things have predictably gone bad for the hapless one. With the economy still stagnant, runaway debt, soaring energy costs and turmoil in the Middle East Obama's reelection dreams grow bleaker by the day as he continues to fall in public esteem-with more and more Americans wanting change. Indeed, from the start of his ill starred presidency at the inaugural when he bungled his oath and kingmaker Ted kennedy collapsed the trajectory of Obama's presidency has been down hill, with his best day being bin Laden's death*.
*Could it be that what the the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt were to the 3rd disastrous year of the Carter Administration bin Ladin's death will be to Obama in this his 3rd disastrous year?
In fact, if you closely study yesterday's press conference you can detect pessimism, doubt and self-pity clouding Obama's souring face. Indeed, he seemed profoundly uncomfortable with the event as he looked like the inexperienced shabby naif that he is next to the polished British pro (it was Bill Clinton in the Briefing Room all over again).
IMHO Barack Obama is losing faith: faith in himself, in his imagined destiny, in his vision of foundationally and fundamentally transforming America into a social justice nanny state for which there is no doe. Killing bin Laden and Taliban leaders aside Obama remains a weak and ineffective leader-a man of small parts with bad ideas in a job overwhelming and crushing him.
Could it be that a hunch I had about Obama's future will pan out? That he'll be the national David Paterson-New York's first black governor? And like Paterson in 2010 he'll face the truth in 2012 and quit the race to continue in office seeing that he's unreelectable? In short, will Obama be the next Harry Truman and LBJ and drop his bid for a second term? If there's no chance in hell of winning reelection (which I believe will be the case by next year) will Obama cave into reality and end his campaign? Or will one of the worst president's in US history continue to delude himself with hopes of victory and suffer a landslide defeat? We shall see.
David Paterson, New York's legally blind first black (ex) governor is emblematic of our first black president's moral and mental blindness.
Postscript: The Westminister Guestbook Fiasco
While on his state visit to London Monday, and still realing from Bibi Netanyahu's scolding and House speech, a much distracted Barack Obama signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey "24 May 2008,” instead of 24 May 2011. As May 24, 2008 was before Obama became President the date was proper for a man who is the most unpresidential commander in chief ever-and perhaps should not have been president as many believe. But why not write down a date when George Bush was still President? Bush was a real adult Commander in Chief and presidential President.
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