Wednesday, June 2, 2010

America's Smallest President. He was supposed to be Competent.

American Thinker: The Smallest President
June 01, 2010
 By Geoffrey P. Hunt

Would someone remind us again why the nation elected this man to be president? A man with no resume, a man with no experience in running anything other than a political campaign, a man who is ignorant of history, economics, and technology? A man who is shallow and lazy? A man who shares neither character nor temperament with the American people in this vast republic? How did this happen?

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He Was Supposed to Be Competent
By PEGGY NOONAN" - WSJ.com
The spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy. I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts...

...There was his day-to-day indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration...

...The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen...

...The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy. It's not good to have a president in this position—weakened, polarizing and lacking broad public support—less than halfway through his term. That it is his fault is no comfort. It is not good for the stability of the world, or its safety, that the leader of 'the indispensable nation' be so weakened. I never until the past 10 years understood the almost moral imperative that an American president maintain a high standing in the eyes of his countrymen...