A Record of Ineptitude

On the first anniversary of the inauguration of Barak Obama, a review of his performance during the year is illuminating if not alarming. It is a year full of failure and mistakes; the performance of rank amateurs in the highest office in the land.

In the realm of international affairs, the inexperience and bumbling of the Obama Administration is breathtaking. Firstly, he has taken the only member of his cabinet with any “gravitas,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and relegated her to a back bench. For a woman who aspired to the presidency herself, and one occupying the office once held by Thomas Jefferson, she has been detailed only to the poorer regions of the Third World, perhaps to keep her out of sight. In her absence, President Obama has managed to step in one pile of excrement after another.

He managed to horrify our newest allies in Eastern Europe by cancelling the proposed missile defense system planned for the Czech Republic and Poland, despite continued nuclear development by Iran. He has proposed a unilateral reduction in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He has continued his ludicrous policy of apologizing for his own country all over the world. He has been photographed bowing to both the King of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan.

With his nation engaged in a war in Afghanistan, he showed the world weakness and indecision in delaying his response to his Commander’s request for additional troops, and then compounded the error by announcing a date for U.S. withdrawal from the conflict. That is an act sure to give aid and comfort to the Taliban and endanger the lives of our servicemen there.

In perhaps the most embarrassing act of his dismal first year, the amateur president invested his political capital in the failed bid to win the Olympic Games for the City of Chicago. When he made plans to travel to Copenhagen to lobby the Olympic Committee, all observers noted that the decision must already be made if the American President was planning to make the trip. What administration would risk the huge loss of face and credibility that would accrue if the lobbying bid failed? The answer: an administration composed of vastly over-confident amateurs; the Obama Administration. He made the American Presidency, and by extension the American people, the laughing stock of the European Socialist dandies, and the rest of the world as well.

But the dashing young president has not confined his incredible ineptitude to international affairs. Domestically, he has led the charge to nationalize the automobile industry as well as the financial industry. He has taken his party to the brink of destruction with his reckless attempt to hijack the health care sector of the economy while threatening the insurance industry with government “competition.” This has caused a conservative backlash throughout the nation, as a leaderless grassroots rebellion has sprung up in the form of the Tea Parties.

On top of those questionable initiatives, President Obama has championed the proposed Cap and Trade legislation, a policy that would add crushing financial burdens to American businesses struggling to emerge from the depths of a persistent recession. And he is forwarding this proposal despite rising unemployment and in the face of the exposure of the Anthropomorphic Global Warming as a giant hoax.

It does seem like the bloom has come off the rose for the Hope and Change crowd. The historic new president has tried to help the political fortunes of his party, but that does not seem to be working out quite as planned. Since the spontaneous rebellion of the Tea Party folks in response to the Obama Care power grab last summer, Mr. Obama has lent his political prestige to three candidates for high office. Unfortunately for the president, in Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell defeated Obama-endorsed Democrat Creagh Deeds by 17 points. In New Jersey on the same day, Republican Chris Christie defeated Obama favorite, Wall Street billionaire and Democrat Jon Corzine in a heavily democrat state.

And in the most earth-shattering result to date, a Republican state senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, defeated state Attorney General Martha Coakley for the senate seat once occupied by the late Ted Kennedy, despite the last-minute, high-profile endorsement of Barak Obama.

Now, President Obama is threatening to go to Nevada and campaign for his chief ally in the Senate, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid. With Reid already trailing in the polls by double digits, one has to wonder if the Majority Leader might just prefer to go this one alone.