Job #1
"The way I see it, the first job of my administration is to put people back to work and get our economy moving again," President-elect Barack Obama said, days before he takes the oath of office.
No, sir. The way you see it is wrong. You need to be Commander in Chief, not campaigner-in-chief, nor poll-follower-in-chief.
Your job #1 is the safety of Americans from the war the terrorists began during the Clinton administration.
Bush knew that. We watched him gather all his power - all his political IOUs - together and spend them all on the war on terror. He did exactly what we all needed him to do. He pushed every resource to its limit (including legal limits). He asked every agency to re-invent new and better ways to keep us safe. When necessary to get job #1 advanced, he got Congressional votes for our war effort by looking the other way on Congress's fiscal boondoggles. He allowed Congresses controlled by both parties to party well into the night with pork barrel projects designed to get them re-elected. That's what allowed him to work well into the night on our safety in time of war.
Shame on Congress. Shame on the "watchdog" media. Thank you, Mr. President. You gladly sacrificed your popularity for the better goal of our safety. If you had acted as though popularity, power, and legacy were most important, we would have had eight more years of Clintonesque politics, and eight more years of terrorist murders of Americans.
It's an axiom - a basic truth - of war that the best defense is a great offense. Likewise, it's a basic truth that, in the absence of war, the best-prepared defense is a well-prepared offense.
So, after Obama takes a powder on the whole Commander in Chief thing, and jumps in front of the ignorant me-first parade to say paychecks is job #1, and leaves Iraq while it's still vulnerable to takeover by another tyrant who will want to wage war on us, and cuts the defense budget so we're as unprepared for the next effort as Clinton left us for the current effort -- after all that, where will the ignorant me-first parade lead our poll-follower-in-chief after the next terrorist act of war?
When the parade makes him say it, he'll say that winning the war on terror is job #1. But, by then, he will have lost the great advantage handed to him by his predecessor.
This is the difference between a true leader and a media starlet. Country first, if you please.
No, sir. The way you see it is wrong. You need to be Commander in Chief, not campaigner-in-chief, nor poll-follower-in-chief.
Your job #1 is the safety of Americans from the war the terrorists began during the Clinton administration.
Bush knew that. We watched him gather all his power - all his political IOUs - together and spend them all on the war on terror. He did exactly what we all needed him to do. He pushed every resource to its limit (including legal limits). He asked every agency to re-invent new and better ways to keep us safe. When necessary to get job #1 advanced, he got Congressional votes for our war effort by looking the other way on Congress's fiscal boondoggles. He allowed Congresses controlled by both parties to party well into the night with pork barrel projects designed to get them re-elected. That's what allowed him to work well into the night on our safety in time of war.
Shame on Congress. Shame on the "watchdog" media. Thank you, Mr. President. You gladly sacrificed your popularity for the better goal of our safety. If you had acted as though popularity, power, and legacy were most important, we would have had eight more years of Clintonesque politics, and eight more years of terrorist murders of Americans.
It's an axiom - a basic truth - of war that the best defense is a great offense. Likewise, it's a basic truth that, in the absence of war, the best-prepared defense is a well-prepared offense.
So, after Obama takes a powder on the whole Commander in Chief thing, and jumps in front of the ignorant me-first parade to say paychecks is job #1, and leaves Iraq while it's still vulnerable to takeover by another tyrant who will want to wage war on us, and cuts the defense budget so we're as unprepared for the next effort as Clinton left us for the current effort -- after all that, where will the ignorant me-first parade lead our poll-follower-in-chief after the next terrorist act of war?
When the parade makes him say it, he'll say that winning the war on terror is job #1. But, by then, he will have lost the great advantage handed to him by his predecessor.
This is the difference between a true leader and a media starlet. Country first, if you please.
posted by Robiewan | 12:17 PM
1 Comments:
Oh that more Americans could discern the difference between what is popular and what is real.
So much of the retoric sounds good, but when analyzed by critical thinking skills, it is merely fluff & is seriously misguided.
Throughout the campaing, so much of the talk, from both parties, was about things, that in reality are NOT the job of the President.
On the economy: Look at any government managed program & the lack of fiscal responsibility & basic bookkeeping principles that are mismanaged & tell me...do you really want Uncle Sam messing with the economy??? Mr. President, please keep you hands off the economy & allow the free market system (that has worked for over 2 centuries) correct itself.
On Healthcare: Take a look at the Medicare system & how well that's going...NOT!...and them tell me, do you really want THAT for our entire healthcare system in this country? I think not!
If you want to enjoy the benefits of "Universal Healthcare"...move to Europe & take a number. That's how you get medical treatment. Need surgery? Take a number, get in line & wait your turn. And then you will be seen by the doctor & hospital of the governments choosing, not your own.
You do know what they call the doctor who graduates at the bottom of the class in med school, right?...Yep....they call him/her "Doctor".
No sir, Mr. President elect...your number one job is National Security. Hmmm....how did you miss that in Presidential Grooming School 101?
Oh, I forgot...we still live in a free country where anyone can be elected president. Sure hope you don't drop the ball & let that one slip away sir.
And yes, unlike the Bush haters, I will, out of respect for the office, address you as "sir" or Mr. President.
As the departing President stated so clearly...."the office transcends the man", and indeed it does.
God bless America...
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