We're beginning to see how ineffective President Obama has been in his first months in office. As I warned earlier, he comes to the presidency as an inexperienced rookie with no significant accomplishments in his life and never having held a major executive position where he was personally responsible for an outcome. Yes, we've had Senators elected President, but none who spent one-half of their very few elected years simply running for the office. The American media has given him a free pass and continues to do so. None of the European nations are supporting Obama's economic stimulus bail-out strategy and none are honoring his requests for more troop support in Afghanistan, yet our newspapers trumpet how he and his wife are "dazzling" Europe, but conveniently omit that he is getting absolutely nothing he wants at the G20 summit. And our enemies are equally unimpressed. Obama tried to make a deal with the Russians, behind the backs of our NATO allies, but Russia rejected it and then made it public showing its contempt to Obama, and signaling our allies of our questionable trustworthiness. Obama's televised address to Iran only confirmed that he will do nothing to keep them from acquiring a nuclear bomb. And his warnings to North Korea did nothing to deter that nation from test launching a long range missile. Finally, his recent proclamation that he was seeking a nuclear weapons-free world was pure fantasy and utter rubbish, and our allies and enemies know it. But don't look to our media to headline these failures and shortcomings. They are cheering him on. They like the style and symbolism he brings. But style and symbolism are only that. It won him an election but it is totally irrelevant to the realities of the world that require actual ideas and actions. Putting our economic and nuclear futures in the hands of a novice "leader" because he looks good and makes us feel good will have future generations shaking their heads and wondering, "What in the hell were they thinking?".
