Posted on 06/07/2010 2:41:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Juan Williams to the amazement of some of his co-panelists let it rip on Fox News Sunday [1]. The subject was nominally the Sestak and Romanoff scandals, but Williams found the bigger theme:
I think the problem here is this is an administration that, as Hillary Clinton famously pointed out, you may not want to have answer the 3:00 a.m. call.
These are guys who have tremendous vision about legislative achievements and specific things like health care, going forward on immigration, those difficult issues for America that America so far has failed to deal with.
But when it comes to the crisis, when it comes to the gulf oil spill, the wars, the recession, they feel as if its being imposed upon them, rather than taking the helm. I think thats what Americans are sensing right here. And I think its the source of their problem at the moment. Are you able to handle a crisis in a convincing way that inspires confidence? And so far, the president hasnt done that.
Now, some say he should just go into a rage. I dont think thats who Barack Obama is. I think hes a pretty cool character, fairly analytical, and I think we all admire as part of the meritocracy in America. Those are people who are really smart. But you know what? They dont know how to deal with this crisis, and I think lots of Americans therefore are blaming the president, fairly or unfairly.
Well, thats sort of a problem, since we live in a world filled with crises. Frankly, thats what being president is all about. The day-to-day issues and the mundane problems dont make it to the presidents desk. And the crises that have occurred during this administration and with the president front and center bombing attempts, incidents in the Middle East, a popular revolt in Honduras, the gulf spill have been bungled.
Even when the time frame for decision-making is not that tight, Obama has agonized and made things far worse. Recall the interminable Afghanistan seminars at the White House. Delay created the appearance of indecision, and the final announcement was a mishmash of the useful (more troops) and the destructive (a timeline). Then on the job scandal, Mara Liasson commented:
But the fact is that was a kind of ham-handed political act. Its something thats been done by every single administration in the past, to clear the field for an incumbent or a favored candidate. Then they proceeded to wait a very long time, an inexplicably long time, to explain what happened. And then when they did explain what happened, at least in Sestak, they didnt answer all the questions. And its morphed and weve all seen this movie before. Its now morphed into this call for an investigation. And this is what happens in Washington.
Obama was comfortable when running for office, when he could get by on rhetoric and as a legislator where no one is really responsible for anything. What hes ill-equipped to do is govern and lead. Plenty of people are hired for jobs beyond their abilities and outside their areas of competence. Unfortunately, the damage done by placing someone of that ilk in the White House is grievous and in some cases irreversible.
There’s so much wrong going on there that the blue shoes are almost irrelevant.
JUAN WILLIAMS SAID THIS?????????????
*Obama was comfortable when running for office, when he could get by on rhetoric and as a legislator where no one is really responsible for anything. What hes ill-equipped to do is govern and lead. Plenty of people are hired for jobs beyond their abilities and outside their areas of competence. Unfortunately, the damage done by placing someone of that ilk in the White House is grievous and in some cases irreversible.*
THAT HAS TO BE THE BEST SUMMARY FROM A DISILLUSIONED OBAMABOT - THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!
When the going gets tough, 0bama goes golfing.
Good grief!
Taking a look at her huge hiney, I would imagine she could produce a fart that could be heard throughout a four-county area and could tint car windows within a 2-block radius.
He's not a leader now and he has never been a leader. Obama is just a show dog and won't hunt.
Becuase yellow + blue = green?
Michelle, Michelle... One word: SPANX.”
Sinch OPRAH is such an ardent supporter of NObama & Michelle, one would think that OPRAH had set up MIchelle with a lifetime supple of SPANX.
Looks like OPRAH needs to apply at least one type of makeover to Michelle.
Senators make lousy presidents, and this *clown didn’t even make a very good senator. Present company excepted, of coourse.
OMG!!!
Looks like Chewbacca is really chewing on her britches.
Imagine how she sets off every car alarm in the cul de sac with those Michelle My Belle farts.
Okay, Michelle needs a clothing allowance. This is what happens when one buys clothes only when one is on a diet and loses some pounds. Then later, all the clothes are too tight.
Been there, done that.
I’d hit it.
No really!
Michelle has a bit of a hiney but it’s not huge. Problem is her taste in clothes and wearing stretch pants that just can’t stretch enough.
Heh heh. Good point.
He does seem to have brief periods of lucidity but then never disappoints by sliding back into leftist oblivion.
Exactly, we can knock Obama and Pelosi all day, but does any country that elects these people to be the leaders deserve to have leaders better than them?
I fell asleep after Williams said “ I think...”
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