Okay. Let me understand this. Japan is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown just after the most devastating earthquake in its history and a tsunami that has killed tens of thousands of people. Libya, home of Qaddafi, Guadaffi, Quadafi…daffy…, the dictator who ordered a plane full of innocent people shot out of the sky over Scotland, is now terrorizing its citizens by mowing them down with bombs and machine guns from airplanes. Civil war has broken out in Bahrain, home of a massive United States military installation. It is a proxy war with Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other. That's comforting. The stock market is plunging. And the price of food has just had its biggest increase since 1974…and those of us who were alive back then remember what that was like.
And where is Barack? Playing golf…filling in NCAA brackets on ESPN…giving speeches on equal pay for women…and about to take his family for a weekend in Rio. Maybe Michelle is the Girl from Ipanema!!
What is this guy doing? People are dead or dying in Japan and the Mideast under terrible circumstances. Show some respect. Show some leadership. Does the President live in the same world I live in?
Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed her frustration over the disengagement of the Obama. Obama let a possible revolution in Iran wither on the vine as he turned his back on those who were marching in the streets of Tehran. Now he was going to let some more die on the streets of Tripoli…and miss an opportunity to depose a horrible dictator.
The people of Japan are experiencing tragedy beyond belief, and face the real danger of a nuclear reactor meltdown. What words of encouragement did he have for them? Maybe he couldn’t do anything about it directly…but for God’s sake, at least look concerned. True to form, Obama is an iceman, apparently void of feelings, empathy, and/or the ability at least to pretend that he has any of the above. The media made fun of Reagan, Clinton and Bush as often being “mourners in chief.” Sometime some decorum is exactly what is needed. Michelle and two little darlin’s frolicking on the beaches of Rio while the Prez takes in a fast 18 is not decorum. Now is not the time for this type of behavior.
Obama has used the White House as his family’s personal travel agency with lots and lots of expensive vacations. Only the best for his family while the country wallows in economic malaise on the verge of the long predicted stagflation. His callous disengagement is so outrageous it is beyond comprehension.
I know that Brazil is one of the BRIC nations and important to the United States as a trading partner. It is a major player on the world economic stage, and ordinarily this trip would be necessary in every sense. But to play golf all week while Japan radiates and the Mideast flagellates, then take his wife and kids to frolic on Copacabana Beach is an outrage, and an embarrassment to the United States.
Shame on Barack Obama. How much more do we have to endure?
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