Noted by Mitt Romney:
Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows “whose ass to kick.” We have become accustomed to his management style — target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician…
Unfortunately, all we’ve got is a politician – who only seemed to get galvanized to action when the polling started to go against him. Think about it – still no Presidential action on the floods in Tennessee. Why? No major MSM coverage (just as there wasn’t at the start of the oil leak) and thus no growing sense of crisis – and no effect on the President’s polling numbers.
Once the scope of the Gulf disaster could no longer be ignored, things started to look increasingly rocky for Obama and his Democrats – especially with the mid-terms looming. So, “action” started to be taken – mostly in laying blame, finger pointing and attempting to use the crisis to advance the leftist agenda. Lots of action, but still no leadership – and after all this time, as we approach the two month point, its clear we’re never going to get any. This problem will be solved by the ad hoc actions of people like Governor Jindal, not by Obama…Jindal is a leader in politics, Obama is just a politician.
The spill is not Obama’s fault. BP’s gross failure to recognize how bad it was is not Obama’s fault. What is Obama’s fault is his complete inability to take the clear, hard decisions necessary to repair the damage as swiftly as possible. This is all we’ve seen from Obama – its all we’re ever going to get from him. We’ve got an Occupant in Chief in the White House, not a President.
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