Posted on 10/27/2009 6:34:10 AM PDT by Titmouse
Conservatives like Dick Cheney just don't get it: It's not that the president is “dithering” while Americans are dying in Afghanistan; it's that the president has other “wars of necessity” to fight, simultaneously, and he can't be everywhere at once.
Take, for instance, the president's Cairo pledge, back in June, to help correct “under-investment” in Muslim nations. Last Friday Obama announced that the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation would commit between $25 million and $150 million to fund investment “throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa.”
This president is politically aware of the U.S.'s 10 percent unemployment rate, but he can't resist the grand global gesture to under-funded Muslim entrepreneurs in Damascus and Tehran.
Then there's the United Nations and nuclear disarmament: In a precedent-shattering lunge, Obama grabbed the U.N. Security Council gavel last month, denying Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an assignment that befell her office. Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi was so mesmerized by the president's magnetism that he embraced him as “my son,” and suggested that Americans make Obama “president for life.”
Obama has bigger ambitions.
With non-proliferation of nukes his stated goal, Obama's first order of business was to table any discussion of Iran's or North Korea's nuclear programs, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for Secretary of State Clinton to host Russian inspections of American nuclear sites.
Don't try to noodle out how this makes America stronger or safer: International diplomacy is above your pay grade.
There's no point in antagonizing the Russians and Chinese by demanding Iranian sanctions, while we're busily devaluing their dollars to pay for Congressman John Murtha's empty airport.
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Don’t forget the important fund raisers, golf outings, pickup basketball games, and doggie birthday parties.
Exactly.
Read, yesterday, that Obama has played more golf during his first nine months than Bush played during his two terms in office. Remember the press’s fixation about Bush’s frittering away time on the course, while Americans were dying in Iraq? Maureen Dowd’s hangups about Bush’s workout routine at the White House?
Try to imagine the reaction if Bush had happened to love playing “round-ball” with his buddies...
Didn’t the One say that he could multitask during the campaign?
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