I Guess It Can Get Worse

I don’t know where to begin.  Much as already been written and spoken about the Obama speech last week at the National Prayer Breakfast. By the way, all we ever hear about is the speech; did anyone get around to praying? Surely and hopefully it wasn’t our President because all he can do is lecture and I doubt God, if Obama does indeed see fit to believe in Almighty God, would appreciate Obama’s tips on how to manage all of creation. There is a good article from NRO regarding Obama’s flippant treatise on the history of religion and in particular the Crusades, here.

I know that is already too late for this question, but just what are we able to point out as a strong suit for Obama? It can’t be foreign policy because Putin routinely out maneuvers him, even without a shirt. Merkel of Germany is now taking the lead in trying to head off a military confrontation in Ukraine since many of the European countries are already balking at further sanctions. Iran is farther along on its’ quest for a nuclear weapon and Obama gave up any leverage by reducing sanctions before the Mullahs had to agree to anything. The same storyline was followed in Cuba. Even if diplomatic recognition is good in the long run, why didn’t Obama at least ask them if they would concede something? And of course we still have the Afghanistan pullout by schedule instead of by progress, the ISIS butchery due to leaving Iraq in a vacuum, the infamous “leading from behind” in Libya, and of course the Benghazi fiasco. And speaking of “leading from behind”, what does “wrong side of history” mean?

I doubt anyone of right mind would counter and say his domestic policy efforts have been stellar. We have finally achieved economic growth but our unemployment, according to the pollster Gallop, is nothing but a smoke and mirrors activity. Instead of improving race relations, most societal pundits believe they have worsened. The bellwether of his administration is the Obamacare adventure and even the President either doesn’t understand how it works at best, or at worst, he is a liar. We have opened our borders to illegal immigrants, although liberal media frown on calling them illegal. And of course, all of this is enhanced by an abundance of presidential executive orders that are blatantly at odds with the Constitution.

But is the worst yet to come? There are two more years to go and our Republican office holders in Washington do not seem inclined to offer pushback.