Procrastinator in Chief

There were two main reasons that I did not vote for Obama. First was his lack of experience and second I didn’t want a single party congress aligned with the same party president in the event of a vacancy in the Supreme Court. I have now changed my mind since we now have another party in control of the house and Obama now has 6 years of experience as president. My concern now is his world view. He has what I call the Rodney King syndrome. You recall the unfortunate black man in Los Angeles who was beaten by the cops and then he said, “why can’t we all just get along”. The President came into office thinking that if we just admit to our past mistakes and reached out the hand of friendship, the world would respond in kind. While I can attribute that to his lack of experience he still seems to think that he can use his charismatic speeches to chart the direction of countries and when his talk doesn’t get results he is hesitant to use action. He recently admitted that he was aware of the developing problems in Iraq some four months ago but he is still trying to formulate a plan. Every day that he waits the situation becomes more difficult. Foreign policy is a learning curve for most presidents but he seems unwilling to face reality. These bad guys will not just go away. Soon the price of gas will begin to rise and this might derail the fragile recovery we are in and our safety depends on a strong economy. He should immediately open up the government owned lands in the west for oil production. It is estimated that in a year we could be well on our way to energy independence. This would make us less vulnerable to turmoil in the Middle East and it would fire up our economy.