Barack Hussein Obama was not “too busy” to visit Wisconsin, he knew a potentially untenable position, and tried, not too artfully, to dodge confrontation altogether.
All right, so he avoided taking a direct hit. But even a near burst scatters schrapnel and sends out shock waves that can damage or even seriously impair functions for critical moments, enough so that ground may be surrendered that cannot be taken back.
Obama, and much of his team, has little real military training, and thus, know little or nothing of Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, and his treatise “On War”, which outlines a number of strategies, or of Sun Tzu and “The Art of War”. Both these military strategists play key roles even in today’s conduct of conflict, which has as the end result, resolution in favor of one party or the other. The thing is, the tactics of the Left, aligned with Obama, seek only short-term advantage, and they have discovered, that without introducing new strategy or seriously rethinking the old ones, they have played themselves into a corner.
As surely as Jimmy Carter had sealed his own fate in 1979 with the ill-timed and badly-executed rescue attempt in Iran, Obama has boxed himself in by not being sufficiently assertive at a critical moment.
Maybe this won’t kill his chances of re-election. But it is noted that the battleship at the head of the armada is beginning to list badly. An important advantage formerly held is beginning to slip away.