Old Version: Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned, New Version: Obama "VIEWed" While America Stressed

Today President Obama spend an hour or so on the daytime talk show, The View. It was the first time a sitting President had ever been on a daytime talk show. While he was "VIEWing", the following was going on:

• During that hour, the Federal government spent about $160,000,000 more than it had collected in tax revenue, further throwing this country into deep, deep debt.
• Another day passed without secure borders, resulting in untold hundreds or thousands of illegal immigrants crossing into the country along with some serious tonnage of illegal drugs.
• Thousands of public schools started to get ready for another year where most of them will still not adequately educate America's kids.
• Unemployment continues to be almost 10% with another 457,000 Americans filing first time unemployment claims last week, which was announced this morning.
• Iran and North Korea are another day closer to having formidable nuclear arsenals.
• Over a hundred thousand U.S. troops were still in wartime danger, fighting the terrorism war in two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan.
• We still do not have a viable long term energy strategy and plan.
• We have an ongoing ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and a new ecological disaster up in Michigan, with oil flowing into Lake Michigan.
• Today we learned from a public opinion poll that about 60% of the Pakistani population, a key partner in fighting terrorism, thinks that the United States is their enemy.
• Social Security is another day closer to insolvency.
• Medicare is another day closer to insolvency.
• We are no closer to a resolution of the Israelis/Palestinian issue.
• Congress was another day closer to its six week recess without having done much of anything this summer (the financial industry reform bill does not count since it is a sham, which I will cover within the next few days.)
• President Obama continued to be neck and neck with Ronald Reagan regarding the dubious distinction of having the fewest press conferences by any sitting President.

What's my point? My point is that there are a whole lot more important issues and crises going on in the country and in the world to be dealt with than spending a large number of hours preparing for and appearing on a daytime talk show. It verifies my conclusions about the President about eighteen months into his term: this President is more interested in playing President than actually being President. He likes to control the forum and manage the message. he likes to pontificate in a condescending manner. He likes to be in the spotlight whether it is appearing on the View, meeting and glad handing athletic teams, representing the nation at the Olympics bid meeting, discussing his March Madness picks, filming a television commercial for the George Lopez Show, giving grandiose speeches around the world, appearing at the international global warming conference, etc. Playing President rather than being President.

We are facing some critical, critical issues in this country and we have a President that never gets out of campaign mode, he delivers nothing of consequence to the American people. That includes health care reform, which is already turning out to be a disaster, and financial industry reform which is a sham. This appearance on the View is just another in a long line of campaign appearances while wars, national debt, nuclear proliferation, an economic malaise, terrorism and a whole host of others issues goes begging. In the meantime, he gets his ego stroked by the View panel. We have a nation coming apart at the seams with Americans throwing hatred and animosity at each other daily, hatred that is encouraged by the political class to assure their re-election and power. This President does not lead and unite, he just campaigns and politics. The election is the ends, it is not the means to greater progress. Let's face it, you cannot make great progress and contributions to the nation if you spend your valuable time sitting on the View's couch.

What would the President say if he read this post? I am sure that he would delicately and slyly mention two things: first, all of the world's problems were personally caused by Bush even though Obama has been in office for over a year and a half and the Democrats have controlled Congress for over three and a half years. President for a year and a half and he still has not manned up to his shortcomings and failures. The second thing he would say or imply, is that I am a racist since every time I have disagreed with an Obama position or policy, which is my right as an American, his minions have called me a racist. Calling American citizens racists and blaming all of his problems on someone else is not being great or a leader, it is being petty and pathetic.

And that's my View for today.


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