Sunday, June 20, 2010
Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and an Amateur.
June 19, 2010 9:31
But the world is also getting no better than it deserves – Mort Zuckerman’s article is here and it is worth reading. But, really, this is entirely unsurprising – and, in fact, was entirely predicted by everyone who wasn’t a partisan Democrat or bamboozled by the pro-Obama hype. In the United States and around the world, serious observers warned that Obama didn’t have what it takes to be President – all such doubts were resolutely ignored.
Obama is young! He’s cool! He speaks well! He’s black and modern! He’s got delightful children! Set aside your doubts – he is, as he rather arrogantly pointed out, what we’ve been waiting for!
Let’s be serious here – Obama had zero executive experience before assuming the Presidency. As far as could be seen, he didn’t have even a cursory knowledge of foreign or military affairs. Economics was a dark continent for him – his entire economic program merely warmed-over, FDR/LBJ tax and spend liberalism. Most importantly, he had never known defeat – a dangerous fact in anyone aspiring to senior leadership (and made worse by the fact that his lack of defeat stemmed from his dodging most circumstances which could lead to defeat).
He was an absolute zero with a good PR machine – that is all. But he’s also not the first zero to be elected President. It happens. And it usually doesn’t work out too well. Some times, though, great leadership can come from the most surprising quarters.
But now he’s President and real world events are happening all the time. It was going to get dicey for President Obama under the best of circumstances, but there was a hope that he’d grow in to the job. He still may, but thus far the real dimensions of his responsibility don’t seem to have dawned on him. He still appears stuck in 2008, thinking that a well-crafted speech and slobbering MSM coverage will do whatever trick is necessary.
We can only hope that he gets a grip on things – at least well enough to stave off a disaster.
( He is a disaster! The answer is to vote out the Democrats in November!!!)
