In its 236-year history, America has elected Presidents who were lazy. Calvin Coolidge once took a vacation lasting nearly three months and ordered the Secret Service to not install a telephone anywhere nearby. As a result, for nearly one quarter of a year, America essentially had no President.
We've also elected Presidents who were incompetent. Jimmy Carter comes to mind immediately. His policies burdened Americans with hyper-inflation and the word, "debacle," most closely describes his foreign policy decisions.
We've also had Presidents who were arrogant and thought they could do anything because they were the leader of the free world. Richard Nixon was the epitome of arrogance, covering up a third-rate burgulary that eventually ended his Presidency.
But never before in our history have we elected a President like Barack Obama, who has displayed all three attributes -- laziness, incompetence and arrogance -- in such great abundance.
Talk about laziness. What other President has only attended a little more than one-third of his daily intelligence briefings during a year and a half period? In 2011 and the first half of 2012, President attended slightly more than 38 percent of his daily intelligence briefings, compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush, who rarely missed these important meetings. Although President Obama apparently doesn't find them important, these meetings help to ensure the security of the United States. In the week before our Libyan ambassador and three other Americans were killed in an attack on our embassy, our President did not attend a single briefing. The day after the attack, our President scheduled, then cancelled the daily intelligence briefing, opting instead to attend a fundraiser in Las Vegas. The President has found time the last four years to play well over 100 rounds of golf and over 200 fundraisers. Apparently, these activities are viewed by our President as much more important than daily intelligence briefings that help to protect America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-bogus-defense-of-obamas-intelligence-briefing-record/2012/09/25/f5ae10de-071d-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html
As for incompetence, our President clearly does not understand how the American system of capitalism works. His anti-economic growth policies have created unemployment above 8% during his entire term in office, record poverty, and record increases in food stamps. The most recent jobs report showed that for every American who found a job, four simply gave up looking for work because the prospects of finding a job were so bleak. Yet, the President is pushing more of the same policies in a second term that he tried in his first term. The definition of insanity -- or incompetence -- is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
What other President has arrogantly ignored laws passed by Congress and signed by a previous President? Through an Executive Order, President Obama directed federal and state immigation officials to ignore laws designed to protect our borders. What other President has had a kill list of suspected criminals (terrorists), that includes American citizens, from which the President, and the President alone, can determine if the suspected criminal lives or dies in a drone strike. Much like a Roman emporer, President Obama can decide if a person lives or dies, even if that person is an American citizen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Laziness. Incompetence. Arrogance. These clearly are the triumvirate of a failed Obama Presidency.
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