"I guess a
small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have
actual responsibilities."
While at the time
her critics denounced that statement as unfair to community organizers, Palin
was spot on correct. Her point has been
proved prescient. Barack Obama is an abject
incompetent at everything except speechifying and golf. His ineptitude is nothing short of
horrifying, considering the office he occupies (by which I do not mean that he
runs it— he merely occupies it).
The man literally
could not run a lemonade stand, much less a nation. His attempts to outsource presidential
decision making have produced a virtual samba line of buffoons who could not
begin to control the agencies and projects to which they were appointed.
Kathleen Sebelius
led the samba line with failures so thorough and comprehensive that it became
clear that she knew absolutely nothing about the healthcare website that she
had many months to oversee, a website which not only collapsed the moment she
pressed the “start” key, but continues to this day to have critical defects.
Eric Shinseki was
widely praised for his service as an army general, but from the moment he
stepped into the office of Secretary of Veterans Affairs he was as out of his
element as a brain surgeon assigned to build a space ship. Veterans avoidably died as a result of Shinseki’s
lack of curiosity about events in his department, and his response was that he
felt really bad about that. Oh yeah, he
was angry, too.
“Former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu left under a cloud of
controversy involving crony capitalists getting millions of dollars in green
loans that produced nothing but failed companies,” according to Victor Davis
Hanson at the San Jose Mercury News
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton produced a litany
of failures during her tenure, but one must grudgingly admit that she spent
little time on the golf course (or whatever her pastime might happen to be),
and is enough of a control freak that she would have scrutinized every element
of Hillary Care, had she been president.
The finished product would have been disastrous to the nation, but an
efficient disaster, which might actually be the worst kind.
Valerie Jarrett, not Obama, seems to be the actual brains
(or lack thereof) behind the operation (or lack thereof). Her qualifications for the job are purely
ideological, explaining why no hint of the real world ever factors into
presidential decrees.
The worst of Obama’s failures are yet to be exposed to the
light of day. His mismanagement of
national security makes the Keystone Cops look like James Bond by comparison.
Let’s start with his own personal security, supposedly
guaranteed by the Secret Service.
However competent and dedicated many of the agents are, they are clearly
infiltrated with drunkards, whoremongers and bunglers. This tragic and dangerous corruption has been
going on for years, and nothing proactive was done to foresee and prevent
future occurrences. Forget locking the
back door, the Secret Service could not even lock the front door of the White
House as an intruder sprinted across the lawn and penetrated deep inside the
building. Yet another agency head has
been forced to resign in disgrace in light of failures so astounding that no
fiction writer would dare include such improbable idiocies in their novels.
Let’s continue with Obama’s military incompetence. Here is a man who in a speech at the Army Academy
at West Point mispronounced the word “corps”
three times. Many people would laugh
this off as a mere gaffe, but it reflects an utter unfamiliarity with the most
basic vocabulary of the military. Worse,
it shows that not one of the people closest to him caught the error before he
made it, and no one was able to speak into his earphone (if he even had one) to
correct this before he repeated it twice more.
Think of what the dismayed cadets were imagining, as they realized this community
organizer was their commander.
One might laugh it off were not this gaffe magnified in his
blunders that have squandered the gains of thousands of military men who lost
their lives in battle to secure Iraq
One might continue laughing if Obama had not claimed credit
for ending the war, but now seeks to blame others when it turns out that ending
the war really meant losing it.
The laughter dies down when the national security agencies
have finally become fed up with this incompetent who continually blames them,
not himself, for permitting an entire nation of terrorists to be formed under
his nose, now threatening to infiltrate our cities with large numbers of
fanatical, suicidal terrorists. All this
occurred while Obama refused to attend security briefings by those whom now he
blames.
What will it take before those in positions of high power
step out of the shadows and perform their actual duty of protecting the nation,
protecting it from the onslaught of illegal immigrants, disease, and violence? How can they protect the president when they
refuse to protect the nation from the president himself?
Just how long can a samba line get before the laughter
finally stops?
