R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Our incompetent president

The Washington Times ^ | August 18, 2010 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I think it is clear even to official Washington that Mr. Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

The other night at a White House dinner solemnizing the opening of Ramadan, he leapt right in to endorse building a mosque at ground zero. He - a man who has shown no religious fervor during his time in the White House - let out a ringing defense of religious liberty and tolerance. Of a sudden, he was at the center of a national controversy that was growing. It put me in mind of his inability to defuse the controversy over health care. Any sensible president would have relented as opposition to health care grew to the majority position. He would have settled for some sort of compromise, but not the community-organizer-turned-president. He wanted it all. He lunged on and created among the electorate a row over national health care that divided the nation and put some of us in mind of a civil war that continues to rage. What is more, he imperiled his party's margins in both houses...(continued)

[Michael Zak]

There was nothing much to loot in the postwar South. In contrast, many southern industries were established by northerners after the Civil War.

[upcountryhorseman]

He will never change, he is an ideologue!