Thinkin’bout Stuff

President Barack Obama believes in the pharaoh method when it comes to leading a nation, or at least as it was portrayed by Yul Brynner.

All he need do is say the word and the word becomes reality… “So it is written, so it shall be done“.

More than one year ago President Barack Obama proclaimed Guantanamo “will be closed no later than one year from now.”

Not might be closed, not we plan to close, not it is important we close, not targeted to close, not we hope it is closed, not barring any unforeseen circumstance beyond our control it will be closed…

No! “Will be closed no later than one year from now.”  Will be closed! So it is written, so it shall be done.

Not closed.

In August, President Obama commanded that a special high-value, detainee-interrogation group (HIG) be created to ensure appropriate handling and interrogation of terrorist suspects.  According to AP:

“The unit would be led by an FBI official, with a deputy director from somewhere in the government’s vast intelligence apparatus, and members from across agencies. It will be directly supervised by the White House, but the senior administration officials insisted the unit’s agency bosses will make operational decisions, not the White House.

Shouldn’t be too hard to pull together.  Need an FBI guy, some reps from other agencies, and a reporting mechanism to keep the White House in the loop.

I estimate it would take me no more than one week to pull together this team (but then, I am very good at managing projects and teams

Seems like a pretty important team to pull together to close a major gap now that all of the Bush administration approaches to interrogation have been abandoned, so clearly President Obama would be on top of this and ensure this team is up and active and protecting the United States from the bad guys.

What’s that?  They don’t actually exist yet?  Did anyone tell the president? Oh, I see… no need.  All that matters is that something is announced… so it is written, so it shall be done!  Phew, this leading stuff is hard work.

Too bad though, since we’ve all ready had three attacks by terrorists here on US soil since President Obama was inaugurated, including the Christmas Eve Underwear Bomber.  An interrogation unit might have come in handy.

So it was with great interest that I listened to President Obama, during the State of the Union Address, tell us that:

(Transcript from FoxNews) – … we will double our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support two million jobs in America.

And the only thing I hear is “So it is written, so it shall be done!”

My bet, he hasn’t clue one how to accomplish this, will not even do anything more than talk about it or form some commission to talk about it, and will continue on his current path of reshaping our economy into the image of “fairness” that he believes is what America should be all about:  a dependency on huge government that will be tougher addiction to kick than tobacco and as damaging as sniffing glue as we evolve to a nation of drones with no real incentive to innovate because any rewards will be taxed (literally) to death to support a government infrastructure that will be designed to ensure a voting block that must keep Democrats in office to maintain the steady fix of free money.

May not be written, but certainly will be done…  unless we restore some balance of power in November.

According to team Obama, Scott Brown did not win because of his ideas, his vision of America, or because people are sending a message to Obama, Reid and Pelosi..  no, it’s because Americans are frustrated and angry (and clinging to their guns and religion perhaps?).

Senior Advisor David Axelrod:

“The same forces that swept Obama to office in 2008 are still very much astride the country today. The same frustration among middle class Americans about the situation they’re in, they’re working harder than ever just to try and keep up.”

There you have it.

It was not his ideas.

It was not the color of his skin.

It was not his eloquent speeches.

It was not his great campaigning skills.

It was not that he was the right man for the job.

It was not that he brought change that we can believe in.

Barack Obama was elected president because people are angry.

Barack Obama was elected by a bunch of frustrated Americans who will vote for just about anyone who is not the incumbent or a member of the incumbent’s Party.  Heck, they would even have voted for Howard Dean or Al Sharpton at this point.

I guess he didn’t have a mandate for change after all…  Just another check mark next to the box labeled: “Anyone Else”.