He'll never dance with another

Well, we have gone and done it now. We have incurred the wrath of the well-known political commentator and international affairs expert, Sir Paul McCartney who is slightly put out by growing opposition to President Obama in the United States.

McCartney, the former member of the Beatles and song-writer of some renown has come out in support of the American President while admonishing his opponents. “I’m a big fan. So lay off him, he’s doing great,” said McCartney. He did not elaborate on just what program of the president’s was doing so well.

It could not have been the colossal foreign policy failure to bring the Iranian nuclear program to a halt, or the Obama Administration’s program for ensuring restraint on the part of North Korea, surely. It was not his weak-kneed support of our strongest ally in the Middle East, Israel.

It probably was not the president’s response to the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, since there has not been one, yet. Perhaps Mr McCartney was referring to the nationalization of several car companies, or the trillion dollar slush fund appropriated to “save the economy.” Maybe it was the coming Cap and Trade legislation, that will surely hobble the private sector with staggering taxes and skyrocketing expenses.

It probably was not the Obama Administration’s anemic response to the growing invasion of the southern border by illegal aliens flocking into the United States. No, that’s not going all that well, with states like Arizona required to enforce federal law at the border because the Obama Administration will not.

Just what has the president undertaken that is going well? Mr McCartney, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? He has done nothing to improve the economy, the border crisis, or any of several international crises. He has demonstrably weakened the nation by withdrawing proposed missile defense systems from the Eastern Europeans, and by telling the world the circumstances in which he would use nuclear weapons, and in which he would not. He has bowed to our adversaries and scolded our allies. He is exactly the kind of politician that European know-nothings applauded prior to the Second World War, the grand appeasers.

Here’s a little advice for Sir Paul: Stay in your lane, try sticking with something you know about. You write silly little love songs, and leave the commentary on American politics to those of us enduring the Obama presidency.