IT’S NOT THE ECONOMY STUPID, IT’S PRESIDENT OBAMA
CurryforAmerica.com
By the time President Obama finished giving his
State of the Union message, he had failed leadership
101 and convinced the nation that he is incapable of
successfully leading it, especially in a time of
crisis.
The State of the
Anyone can lead when things are going right and
there is not a dark cloud on the horizon. But it
takes a leader like Washington, Lincoln or Churchill
to take command in the middle of a national crisis,
squarely face the enemy, rally America’s citizens,
crush the enemy and lead the nation to victory.
Can you imagine Obama drilling
If you want to know how a real leader thinks and
talks, re-read
He would have said something like, “Fondly do we
hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty economic
scourge may speedily pass away … Yet if God wills
that it continue … the judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether.”
I was listening in hopes of hearing Obama give a
closing that summed up the ravages our soldiers and
their families suffer daily because of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, Something like, “Let us strive
on to finish these wars we are in, to bind up the
nation’s wounded, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,
to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations.”
The words of
Notice that in his Second Inaugural Address
So, today, the struggle is not between Democrats and
Republicans. It is between those who would pile debt
upon debt until the nation is crushed beneath its
obscene weight, and those who would see the
government live within its means until it can devise
a way to pay off its debts, restrict the size and
expenditures of government, and balance the budget
and keep it balanced.
Unfortunately President Obama seems unable to, or is incapable of understanding that now is the time for him to demonstrate real presidential economic leadership, that it is time for him to quit wandering around in the “inside the beltway” political jungle and get to work.