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I am sitting here chuckling. Forgive me, but that has been my recent response when listening to Obama's speechifying. I am somewhat surprised at my recent response to his outlandish rhetoric, but he makes such a mockery of his very words, of America, capitalism, etc.......... that he is, invariably, comical. I have come a long way from when I would listen with trepidation and fear for our nation, so under his spell was America. But he is a clown. And folks, if they listen, can't help but see it. I listen now to his speech on immigration, lecturing us, yet...

CNN) -- Enough is enough! After the latest failure by BP to plug the gaping hole, it is time for President Obama to take full command of this growing national catastrophe. Immediately! The president in his press conference this past Thursday assured the nation that he and his administration were already in charge and he has manfully taken personal responsibility -- "the buck stops here," he said, echoing Harry Truman. Well, it may be true that BP has been acting all along under the oversight of the federal government, but that supervision has been loose and ineffective. To the world,...

I used to think, given the enormous size of the bureaucracy and the tragic nature of the human condition, that from time to time disasters would overwhelm us — and there would be not much the president of the United States could do about them. But after Katrina, the media taught me that neither the mayor nor the governor nor the Army Corps of Engineers nor the people of New Orleans were at fault for either the vulnerability to the chance of a catastrophic Katrina or the response after its arrival. No, you see, the commander in chief is the...

The Obama White House on Sunday appeared to be gently preparing the nation for the increasing likely possibility that BP's oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico won't be finally stopped until relief wells are completed which, at the current rate, are expected to happen sometime in August. Carol Browner, the Obama White House's director of Energy and Climate Change Policy, said on Meet the Press: "There could be oil coming up till August when the relief wells are dug."

Two major stories out of the White House critically undercut President Obama's careful image as a skillful administrator navigating Washington with the highest ethical standards. The government's response to the BP oil spill and the administration's handling of Rep. Joe Sestak's claim he was offered a job to drop his Senate bid both put some tarnish on the Obama brand. "It shows once again the difference between being able to do and say things on the campaign and having to govern," said John Fortier, a political scholar at the free-market American Enterprise Institute. "You can say a lot of things,...