PRUDEN: Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing'

We would really like an explanation on why so many people were snowed by Obama during the primary when he defeated Hillary (or did he really defeat her if you throw out ACORN voter fraud?). Then in the General Election when McCain was ahead, we get the manufactured economic crises by Treasury Secretary Paulson. We have yet to get an answer of why Pres Bush appointed a nominee recommended by Sen Schumer (D-NY) from Goldman Sachs for Treasury Secretary. Another question we have had since last fall is why Bush allowed Obama/Paulson run the meeting on the manufactured 'crises' when McCain is the one with experience.

When Obama was running, he started using as experience he was head of the campaign. We were not impressed then and a lot less impressed now. European allies from the past consider him weak on foreign policy, and we agree.

This Country in these dangerous times should have thought twice before voting for a man based on the media and color of his skin when he had little to no experience. From the day he set foot in the Senate, he couldn't even be bothered to hold hearings on his foreign policy subcommittee. He started running for President right away and his Senate duties went pretty much out to window. He could have learned a lot from the Foreign Relations assignment but he chose to go into campaign mode which he has never left.

Wesley Pruden has nailed Obama along with the fawning media and electorate who chose a man for what he read from his teleprompter instead of experience.

PRUDEN: Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing'

By Wesley Pruden
30 Sep 2009

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The White House is a risky place for on-the-job training, as Barack Obama and the rest of us are learning. But the president doesn't deserve all the blame for the installation of a handsome but unprepared matinee idol in the toughest job in the world. The adoring cult, the 53 percent of the giddily oblivious electorate that took a flyer on Election Day, deserves most of it.

Matinee idols only do what matinee idols do, look pretty and inveigle softly with practiced seductiveness. Trouble arrives when the matinee idol and his public confuse role with reality. Reality arrives with the surprise and impact of a lemon-cream pie in the face.

Nasty surprises abound across the real world. Iran completes a third round of testing of Shahab-3 and Sajjil medium-range missiles capable of hitting not only Israel, Eastern Europe and several Middle Eastern countries but, if all that were not sobering enough, several U.S military bases as well. Venezuela boasts that it's working with Russia and Iran in finding sources of uranium, the key ingredient of nuclear weapons technology. China says it will display new "upgraded missiles" in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Red China. India announces that it can now make nuclear weapons up to a strength of 200 kilotons, four times over the line that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty pledges signing nations not to cross.

This is the fine mess Barack Obama told us would never happen if Americans would elect him to soothe the fears of the frightened and bank the ambitions of evildoers of the world. Suddenly, the president has to deal with headaches, a thousand town halls, with hundreds of thousands of angry bigots, racists and Nazis of hysterical liberal imagination jeering his scheme to take over the health care of the nation, never prepared him for. He's got headaches no speechwriter can cure.

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