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Old 04-26-2011, 09:37 AM
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Opinion piece by Dan K. Thomasson former editor of the Scripps Howard News Service in Ventura County Star:


Thomasson: We need leadership, not cheerleading

April 25, 2011

We need leadership, not cheerleading

Here's a bit of startling news. This nation is in sad need of experienced leadership, not a cheerleader who stands along the sidelines whipping up the crowd while actually participating very little in the action on the field.

What the country needs is someone who will take control, who will put the public's interests ahead of his own political agenda. What the country has is a former community organizer who makes broad policy pronouncements without filling in the details that will be left to someone else — say another commission that is announced with great fanfare. As they say, "we've been there and done that."

Sadly, voters usually get what they deserve and what they got two years ago was historic proof of that. If it sounds as though I'm fed up with President Barack Obama, that's exactly how I want it to sound. I thought that perhaps this time around, the country would benefit from a bright young man who despite the glaring weakness of inexperience would tackle our severe national problems with new energy. After all, the alternative was an aging, disorganized former war hero whose image of irascible independence was frayed around the edges, even scary at times, and whose choice for a running mate was indefensible.

Even when one knew through years of observation that all the things being promised by the two-year senator from Chicago probably weren't achievable, he would be in there slugging it out. Obviously, he would briskly move to close us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, relieving us of the unnecessary deaths and huge economic costs of two wars. Obviously, he would bang heads to bring about compromise on fiscal issues including the runaway entitlement programs, to fight it out on immigration, to reform the tax code and on and on. If soaring gas prices threatened economic recovery, he would use his bully pulpit to force them down.

None of these things did he do, of course. Instead, he spent all his energy promoting an initiative that a majority of us didn't want and our national treasury could ill afford. His actions on health care reform should have forewarned us that his mode of operation was to let someone else provide the details while he filled the air with platitudes and promises, ignoring the fact that people were losing their jobs and many wouldn't get them back because advancing technology had made them unnecessary.

With the financial roof about to cave in on the world's leading economy, what does he do? He launches his candidacy for re-election and kicks that off with a plan — sans details, of course — to tackle the horrendous problems of unsustainable debt. It is a chessboard move clearly aimed at checkmating the Republicans. In a masterful stroke that would have made his city's Al Capone proud, he invited GOP financial leaders to the nationally televised speech outlining his "proposal," where he ambushed them with a patented political put down that missed an opportunity to begin the illusive process of compromise.

Then he is off and running to sell his undocumented snake oil and, oh yes, raise money for his campaign.

Now he has initiated a new congressional commission to settle the debt questions after practically ignoring the exhortations of a similar panel of bipartisan experts he appointed. The leaders of that commission spent months warning of the dire consequences of inaction and offering painful but necessary solutions, some of which have been included in House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's controversial 2012 budget plan.

You should ask yourself do we really need another of these panels especially one run by Vice President Joe Biden and including the top players of Congress, most of whom are either baffled by it or just plain don't want it. Of course, we don't.

So what this country needs since a good five-cent cigar is out of the question is a leader who will call all the warring parties together, announce he will keep them in session until they can resolve their differences and produce at whatever costs to theirs and his political futures a solution to a problem that could end us all. The election be damned. It's not too late for Obama, but hope for him is fading fast.
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Old 04-26-2011, 01:51 PM
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Very few of us ever wants to admit when we're wrong. That's the problem we are facing today. All those who voted this clown into office are facing that very thing. Do they admit they were given a snow job, or do they keep their fingers crossed and hope that Obama's internship as president has taught him something?

The problem is Obama himself, his ideology and lack of ethics will never bring him up to the standards we would want in a president. Of the two, the ideology is what we can't afford to have for another four years. He's like a dumb idiot with a checkbook that continually says "I can't be broke, I still have checks in here." I don't mean that as a joke, he actually believes that.
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