Obama: Incompetent, Delusional, or Liar

This week President Obama made a pitch to bring the Olympics to Chicago. He promised to use all his powers of persuasion to bring the Games home but it worked out just about as well as all his other attempts to persuade Congress to pass his radical agenda as the Olympic Committee voted to send the Games to Rio de Janeiro. The president was criticized for the colossal waste of money and time but at least he wasn't doing something stupid like his recent Air-Force-One flyby of Manhattan. What bothered me was his inability to take the failure like a, well, president (Remember "The buck stops here?"). Instead, he launched into another "I'm-sorry-for-America" speech and blamed previous administrations. Get off it already; Bush isn't there anymore! I have begun to wonder if he is incompetent, delusional, or just a liar. I can't decide. Here is the evidence I have pondered for each.

Of course, he can read a speech like no other since Lincoln and the Gettysburg address. But why did that not persuade the committee. Is he loosing his touch? Perhaps they are still mad at Bush or maybe they are all a bunch of racists! He has made Obamacare the hallmark of his administration and it is going nowhere. Racism? Clinton tried the same thing and failed. Is the nation so racist that we would not even listen to an honorary black president. Perhaps, the country does not like Southerners? Why doesn't Hilary get out there a stump for the reforms? She was the mastermind behind it last time. Is the president afraid we are prejudice against women? Listen, Mr. President, somewhere out there is a person or persons who can explain your wonderful policies so that we will all love them. Maybe one of your many Czars? We could play some perverse game of "Green Eggs and Ham". Maybe we'll like Health Care Reform in a box with a fox. And then he blames his failures on Bush and on the Republicans in Congress. News flash, the Democrats own Congress! The Republican are there to stop you but there would be too few of them if you could get your party together. Is he just too incompetent to get his proposals through and too incompetent to find someone who can?

Meanwhile, Afghanistan is deteriorating and Iran pursues nuclear weapons. He is not talking to his commander in the field. And although the stimulus bill had to be passed immediately before it could be read, he agonizes over sending more troops to a country that had attacked us and harbors terrorists. His only success this week was that his charisma extracted a new set of lies from the Iranians so they can buy time, leaving Israel in the lurch. And when they break this new set of agreements, will he send them another letter telling them how disappointed he is and that they must really shape up this time or else? They are already fueling a power plant with letters they get like that from the UN.

Perhaps he is delusional. He did derail the Clinton machine and successfully lock Hilary away in the Secretary tower, dooming her to mundane diplomacy trips Malawi and Honduras. Some likened him to Jesus Christ and even made caricatures of him as the Messiah. By the way, the National Endowment for the Arts funded an exhibition with a crucifix dipped in urine. I wonder if we could get one of those posters dipped in urine and put on display somewhere. But let's skip the naked, chocolate Obama; I think we have seen enough of his bareness in the tabloids already. He doesn't need any more exposure. But he surely craves it and all this adulation may have gone to his head. Children in schools are now singing songs to his praise to him. If Chairman Mao were still alive, he would be green with envy. Rumors are the Kim Jung Il of North Korea has offered to stop his weapons program if Obama will send teachers from New Jersey to teach his song writers how to compose such marvelous songs of praise.

When Bush was president, he asked the world to help but went forward in our national interests when some refused to help. Now Obama thinks that apologies, sweet words, and the force of his personality will get these nations to change? Have they? Are they helping more? NO! France is still a burned-out socialist society that will do nothing. Russia and China still hate us. North Korea and Iran are as dangerous as ever. Hey, Mister President, are you sure you said "Pretty please with sugar on top?" I think he needs to lay off MSNBC and get his head back into reality. Ever heard of Fox News?

Or maybe he realizes all this and is a just a compulsive liar. He lied about Bill Ayers and Reverent Wright. He ran as a centrist Democrat promising ethical governance and then stuffed is his administration with Marxists and tax cheats. He promised no more lobbyist in high office and then put lobbyists in high office. He promised we would get to see bills on line before they are passed and now pushes them through before anyone can read them. He touts how great his economic measures are doing as the unemployment rate climbs to ten percent, the highest in thirty years. He says he will cut the deficit and then spends more money than all his predecessors combined. He talks about what is in his health care proposal when he has never submitted any proposals to Congress and insists that spending a trillion dollars on health care will not add to the deficit. It does not help that the press does not call him out on any of this. If Bush said the sky was blue, the press would exclaim that the sky was red and the Bush knew it and the only reason he was saying this was to starve children and harm senior citizens. Obama could say the sky was green and the press would report how wonderful it was that Obama turned the sky green in spite of all the racists that claimed the sky to be blue. Maybe this is just feeding his delusions. Does he really think he can cut waste, fraud and abuse from the government? You mean like when he worked with ACORN? And when anyone does confront him on how his proposals are hurting the country (like cutting $500 billion from Medicare), we get the Orwellian "No they're not."

Ten months into this nightmare and we finally are getting a sense of how radically left this president is but now we are left to wonder if he is incompetent, delusional or just a liar. I think he might be a bit of all three. But for all his faults he has done something I didn't think anyone on earth could do. He has made me wish Hillary Clinton had become President.