Posted on 02/25/2011 4:50:49 PM PST by pissant
Editor's note: CNN contributor William J. Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and was director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.
(CNN) -- After witnessing a vacuum of leadership and an apparent fecklessness in dealing with crises abroad during Jimmy Carter's administration, some concluded the presidency was too big for one man.
It took President Reagan's leadership and rhetoric to rid the popular mind of that notion. Today, a stagnating economy and tumult from the Middle East to Africa is making us again question our idea of the job of president.
There is, of course, one person who can restore our faith in the presidency: the president. But as one looks at the major events unfolding abroad right now, it is hard to conclude that he will do that. Or that he can.
In Egypt last month, the U.S. administration sent confusing messages both to the government and the protesters in the streets. One day, we were standing with Hosni Mubarak, the next with the protesters in the street. And then, the next, we were saying positive things about the Muslim Brotherhood. And then we were correcting that.
As commentator Niall Ferguson concluded from our actions and statements there, "Tragically, no one knows where Barack Obama's map of the Middle East is."
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Oh, no, no...Don’t you know it was Motown Night at the White House?
Silly You! :)
I really don’t care where he is just as long as he’s not messing with the US.
Golfing.
And the scummuzzy pirates are still out pillaging and killing innocents too.
Our moron in chief just doesn’t care.
Applauding ... himself.
(On a job well started, but still not yet done.)
Yep, just like his Chicago days (and nights)......
Barack Obama nabs Jeremy Bernard as new social secretary, making him first gay and male to fill post
Jeremy Bernard, who was officially named the new social secretary by the White House on Friday afternoon, is not only the first openly gay person to be named to the post but also the first man.
Libya evacuation:
Britain has HMS Cumberland standing by...
Netherlands has navy ship Tromp standing by....
Italy responds by sending military c-130’s...
and Dumbo rents a ferry...
He’s gettin down, gettin his groove on, cause he’s clueless about world affairs!
OK, I just want to know.....
.....Why are ANY Americans in Libya?
But wait, wasn’t the world supposed to respect the USA after Berserk Obama got elected?
We might soon have to consider the possibility that the world is chuck full of tyrants and homicidal dictators, but a strong US has been holding them in check.
Needless to say if that is the case world instability could easily snowball.
BO is doing nothing, because that is what he thinks white people do. No matter how little he does, I’m sure he thinks he is still doing more than a white man. Rev. Wright told him so.
...just doing business
Obama supports his fellow Muslim Brotherhood.
President-in-waiting Palin has been taking the lead on this issue.
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