Posted on 03/30/2009 6:23:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game.
We now have a rookie president of the United States and, in the dangerous world we live in, with terrorist nations going nuclear, just one rookie mistake can bring disaster down on this generation and generations yet to come.
Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other presidents in American history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been president before. He has never had any position of major executive responsibility in any kind of organization where he was personally responsible for the outcome.
Other first-term presidents have been governors, generals, Cabinet members or others in positions of personal responsibility. A few have been senators, like Barack Obama, but usually for longer than Obama, and had not spent half their few years in the Senate running for president.
What is even worse than making mistakes is having sycophants telling you that you are doing fine when you are not. In addition to all the usual hangers-on and supplicants for government favors that every president has, Barack Obama has a media that will see no evil, hear no evil and certainly speak no evil.
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Can we at least make them tackling dummies?
Bull. Lincoln had military experience - something Zero can only dream of.
I would pay to see that. Thanks for the laugh.
Lincoln himself was (appropriately) dismissive of his “military experience.” It consisted of considerably less than 90 days militia service, in which he saw no action.
Lincoln himself was (appropriately) dismissive of his “military experience.” It consisted of considerably less than 90 days militia service, in which he saw no action.
Sorry ‘bout the double post. My computer is duplicating lots of actions.
Ping!
Obama=chump Change.
I love this guy. Sowell is a national treasure.
Thanks for posting the columns and for the pings.
It’s my pleasure tho I didn’t post this one.
Dr. Sowell sure nailed Obama on this one, our boy president is playing with something that can cost many lives.
No comparison my friend.
It will be as if the economy is a big forest fire in the background and he is at a podium running his "gifted" mouth about putting out the fire. No one will not hear a word he says because they see the forest fire devouring everything while the bottom scroll of the screen states another week of double digit unemployment.
BTW, the big difference between Lincoln and Obama is character (am I a racist now?)
Our democratic republican form of government is being subverted and dismantled in a silent leftwing coup d'etat, and no one is willing to say it out loud.
The infrastructure of 220+ years of hard-won freedom and human rights is being desecrated and destroyed and no one seems to be outraged by this.
We have an alien tin horn dictator in the making who would do the latin banana republics proud, yet no one seems to question why this man is still in the White House and not in the dock. Or headed for prison, maximum security..
“Rookie” is kind. He’s the Affirmative Action president.
I despise the stupidity of the above "strategy" most particularly. Such asses!
Great analogy. Too bad it isn't really football. Obama will unnecessarily lose many American lives.
Thanks for the ping jaz.
FWIW - it is a much more complicated world than the world of Lincoln, which much more facile communications and much more room for trickery on all sides.
I did hear this one at the time. It boggles the mind, gives pause to wonder. Rookie mistake or advice from his dream team advisors? Hamas? His first call? Not one of our staunch allies? I hope it was a rookie move.
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