Thursday, June 30, 2011

Obama’s Stunningly Silly Press Conference

A mere month away from America’s debt ceiling deadline, and Barack Obama continues to deliver no leadership, no details, and no solutions, instead falling back once again on blaming anyone but himself for the challenges facing the nation.

President Barack Obama’s June 29th press conference was a troubling mix of already oft-repeated platitudes alongside ample portions of impudent finger pointing at a Congress he described as less responsible than his own daughters. This from a president who has yet to offer up any recently specific economic or budget plan of his own, who has met only briefly with Congressional leaders over the past several months, and who most recently set a new POTUS record for most consecutive weekends on the golf course – thirteen.

Despite his well documented absence from the process of actual governing, Barack Obama persists in demanding the American public believe he has been working – and Obama will be the first one to tell them so. Wednesday’s press conference showed a seemingly bored and indifferent president annoyed at those who would dare question his own importance, question his ability, and offer up any solutions he deemed out of step with his own deeply entrenched far left ideology of ever bigger government, ever more burdensome regulations, and ever increasing taxes to pay for it all.

In the world of Obama, those who disagree with his views are either too stupid or too greedy. Never mind that this president so recently signed the wrong year in a guest book, or declared to an audience of military personnel that a decorated soldier killed in war back in 2006 to be alive and well in 2011. Never mind as well that in a time when so many Americans are suffering under the yoke of an economy that continues to lay off thousands of workers every week, the Obama White House spends hundreds of thousands on lavish state dinners, and trips abroad. The First Lady’s most recent excursion to Africa to have her photo taken with Nelson Mandela will set American taxpayers back a tidy sum of half a million dollars.

Even members of his own political party have been increasingly vocal in sharing concerns of Barack Obama’s refusal to do the actual work of president. It was a mere two months ago that Hillary Clinton’s own office leaked to the media a description of the Obama White House as “amateur hour”. Further descriptions of Obama as a leadership lightweight have also come from foreign leaders within Russia, France, and China.

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