Yesterday, on Memorial Day, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test. Our president strongly condemned this action, and then headed off to the golf course. I guess that showed Kim Jong Il, because just a few hours later, he conducted two more missile launches.
I think the president deserves to have time off, to play golf, spend time with his family, and go eat hamburgers. I do. Everybody deserves time off, and research has shown that rested and refreshed folks accomplish more than those who never take a break.
But you do have to know the appropriate time to take a break. A few months ago, I unwillingly handed off to Obama and his advisors the safety and well-being of myself and my family. Now, the responsibility of my safety and that of my family’s on our own property is my right and responsibility, thanks to the Bill of Rights. But unless Kim Jong Il comes up to my porch with a nuclear missile in his hand, there’s not anything I can do about him.
That’s Obama’s job. And though I don’t begrudge the man a game of golf–I too love “a good walk spoiled”–it continues to make me feel that this administration is not taking our national security seriously enough.
I might wonder if the golf game was a clever way to disguise the actual discussions and planning that was taking place. But I know that can’t be true, because Obama himself told us that his administration will be “transparent.”
So, methinks that what we see is what we get.
Hot Air calls it “Obamateurism.” Michelle Malkin describes “a Monty Python world” and “toothless U.N. resolutions.”
I call it concerning, to say the least.
The primary job of the president of the United States is to protect the nation and the Constitution. I have yet to see any indication that Obama fully grasps that.
The darker more suspicious part of my brain whispers “he understands that, but it isn’t his priority, that’s not the role he has assigned himself.” And the role he has assigned himself? To firmly and forever establish government as the ruling power in this country, instead of “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
But that’s a post for another day. I’m going to go play golf.
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Good work, Pup. I admire the touch you have with your posts. Perhaps Kim Jong Il will be frightened by the Obamination’s indifference, no?
Jeff
p.s. I play a version called “whack & hunt”
Thanks Jeff. Yes, maybe it will make the N. Koreans think that we’re planning something really big.
(I too play “whack & hunt”–good description!–my goal is to finish without opening up my second box of balls.)
Didn’t he do this one other time when something really big was happening? But you know what, I don’t think he can solve the problem anyway, so might as well play golf…you’re right, he’s in charge of nat’l security…but I’m at the place whereI just don’t think I can count on him. My trust will have to be somewhere else. He has proven himself to me anyway, to be a straw president.
Exactly right Kathy. He doesn’t know what else to do, so just go play golf. I’m really nervous that the message the world is getting is that America is much weaker now under Obama. You know, all during the campaign they kept bragging about how all the rest of the world wanted Obama to win, and I couldn’t understand why that would be something to brag about. No one else in the world, no other country, has America’s best interests at heart. Even our allies have to put their own interests first. But when I heard about all those countries that are not allies wanting him to win, that told me right there how they perceived him. As someone they wanted to “deal” with, as in “not fear.”
No, they do not respect him, nor fear him, and that hurts all of us greatly.
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