STARK REALITY

SPECIAL POST

Here I sit in front of the keyboard hesitant to start with even one word for fear that, if I take my eyes off the T.V., I will miss even more disastrous news about the world today.  Who can possibly know whether or not the Middle East will have turned into an Islamic war… a Jihad to end all Jihads… against the United States by the time this post gets onto the Internet? 

It’s bad enough that we chose to issue a statement early into the Egyptian event before we could possibly grasp the extent of what was going on.  It’s worse that we extended an apology of any kind for anything.  Of course, the event was planned and coordinated and the Libyan debacle happened next.  By this time, Mitt Romney had taken the White House to task for its early apology, and our President chose to “dress down” Romney for “shooting from the hip” before he dealt at all with the Egyptian and Libyan circumstances.  What are our nation’s priorities here? 

Obama, not to be outdone or overshadowed by the deaths of four diplomats or the threats of further protests and violence throughout the Middle East, chose to show just how serious a matter this situation is to the United States by climbing aboard Air Force One and heading to Vegas to campaign.  Any other President, even Jimmy Carter, would have had the mental capacity to park their fanny in the Oval Office and to huddle with their National Security team and show some urgency and national concern.  Sadly, it is a fact… a fact… that whenever things have gotten serious in Washington, Obama has boarded Air Force One and left town. 

I’m not exactly a fan of Mitt Romney, but I will say without hesitation that he was the one who held a press conference and he was the one who looked, acted and sounded like a President should in such times.  The President that we have, on the other hand, chose to display the seriousness of the matter and the swift decisiveness with which we should be reacting like the Senator from Illinois he really is: he voted “present… for the moment.”  Then he left the mess for Valerie Jarrett to clean up. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.