Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, October 26, 2009 8:18:07 PM
Several years ago, a series of books came out called "Where's Waldo?". In them, readers were asked to spend time looking at highly detailed pictures of large groups of people and the object was to find a lanky looking young man wearing a striped shirt and hat by the name of Waldo. He was somewhere in the picture and it was your job to find him.
Today, President Obama seems to be missing as well. Decisions need to be made and he is no where to be found. General McCrystal is needing a yes or no on his request for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Reid and Pelosi need his direction on Heathcare. Is is for the public option or is he not? He can find time to go to Europe to put in a few good words about Chicago for the Olympic Committee, but he can't be found to go to Berlin for the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall. So where's Obama? Should we put his face on milk-cartons to see if anyone has seen him? Should we put out an Amber-alert? Where is he? Maybe he is spending too much time watching Fox News to see what they are saying about him now and Michele needs to go in there and turn the TV off.
Of course we do know where he is. He is in the Oval Office and probably meeting with various members of Congress. But what we really want to know is, where is his leadership? Remember back during the campaign, Sarah Palin chided him on being a "Community Organizer" and that a mayor was something "like a community organizer ... only with real responsibilties" thus calling into question Obama's ability to LEAD this great nation of ours. He was rightly criticized as never having run anything in his life (not even a lemonade stand as a child). Oh yes, there was the basketball team he played on in Hawaii ( they are really known for their basketball court skills there) and he had "run a multi-million dollar campaign".... but isn't that the campaign managers job? Don't they get to make all the big decisions and just point you to your teleprompter? We were told by John McCain that the presidency is no place for on-the-job-training yet that is EXACTLY what we got. A president who looks great in front of a teleprompter but can't make the big decisions. Now, I am not a big George W Bush fan, but I would rather have a bufoon in front of the camera (shown by David Letterman on a nightly basis) and a president who can lead and make the big decisions than a president who can make nice speeches but leaves our troops in harms way with no decision as to how to help them.
Message to the troops:
Sorry men! The President is too busy dancing the samba with Jennifer Lopez than to give your General what he needs to help you.
I am sure they will understand!