As regular readers of this column, all three of them (Hi, mom!), know I usually don’t poke too much fun at President Obama himself. I reserve most of my mocking for his slavish followers who worship him with a bizarre religious fervor and refuse to think critically about the consequences of anything he says or does. But as the President and his advisers mount an unprecedented attack on a major news network, it is time for me to turn the harsh light of reason onto Mr. Obama himself.
The plain truth is that Obama acts more like a candidate than a president. Maybe it is because he’s such a good campaigner. To be fair, he really is good at it – reading speeches from the teleprompter, glad handing with the locals, making promises he has no intention of keeping. He is so good at campaigning that he was elected to the office of President of the United States of America with practically no high level political experience.
He’s at his best when he’s working against someone. He beat the pants off of John McCain in the fall of 2008. Then he continued to campaign against President Bush for 10 months after he actually had won the election. Now that act has worn thin, so he’s running against Fox News. If only he’d turn that competitive bent against Mahmoud Ahmadineja, maybe he could do some real good. But instead he continues to pick at whatever he sees as the face of conservatism and blast away as if his job depended on it.
So, here’s my proposal, for the good of the country. Let’s set up a campaign for some bogus office, like Official Global World Prime Minister, and let Mr. Obama run against the rest of the world leaders for the position. If creating a strong and financially stable America were the only path to President Obama becoming Official Global World Prime Minister Obama, maybe he’d start doing what’s in America’s long-term best interest. Or at least start promising it in stirring teleprompter-fed speeches.
