President Obama: the Procrastinator

The Provocateur ^ | 05/18/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

We all know what happens when we procrastinate in school. You cram three weeks worth of studying all in one night. You get little sleep, you don't study nearly enough, and almost always you do poorly on said test. In the next year or so, we are about to find out what happens when you procrastinate in the world of geopolitics. President Obama made this troubling statement coming out of his meeting with the Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu.

[bgill]

“By the end of the year I think we should have some sense as to whether or not the talks are having some benefit,” Obama said

Well, that's one clue on the timeline of The Plan.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

We all know what happens when we procrastinate in school. You cram three weeks worth of studying all in one night. You get little sleep, you don't study nearly enough, and almost always you do poorly on said test.

But not poorly enough to break me of the habit.

[cajungirl]

Idid just what you said,,last minute cramming in one night with no sleep,,,and made straight A’s. It works for some people. Studying for three weeks prior never helped me.

[cajungirl]

PS Thanks for letting me brag about my A’s. I haven’t been able to do that in 50 years,,it made me suddenly feel young and happy and the way you feel when fifty years passing haven’t hit you and you know nothing of what life is about to serve you.

[CaptainMorgantown]

I did the same through my undergraduate years in college. It works in college when you know the problems are going to fit into nice neat little boxes that have by-the-book solutions. It works less well in the real world. Unfortunately, our President has spent most of his life in and around academia, and precious little time in the real-world. We are going to look pretty silly having elected the smartest kid in the class as President, when he raises his hand a couple years from now and asks: "Mr. Achmednedijad, you promised that the question 'What do I do if Iran gives nukes to terrorists?' wasn't going to be on the test."

P.S., I know I've probably spelled 'Achmednedijad' wrong, but it's not a name I care to learn how to spell.

[DrC]

Let’s look on the bright side: whether intended or not, Barack Obama essentially said to Bibi: “If you need to take out Iran’s weapons with a preemptive strike, go ahead, as you surely can’t count on the U.S. to do this job: we’ll be sitting on our hands waiting to see if talks work.”

I am quite confident Bibi got the message and will not foolishly be putting his stock in the U.S. to sidetrack Iran from its intentions.