Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Was President Obama angry that the Navy Yard tragedy interrupted his planned speech?

(My new American Thinker post)
There are days when we are Americans, or we put our "D" and "R" aside because of a Tucson, a 9-11 or a Boston shooting.  For example, did any of you care about politics when you saw those towers going down?  Like most of you, I thought about the victims and their families.

Sadly, President Obama did not do that yesterday.  He spoke a few hours, and miles, from a mass shooting and couldn't help attacking the GOP. 

Joel B. Pollak is right:     

"On Monday, while the death toll mounted at the Navy Yard, President Barack Obama delivered a strident partisan tirade against Republicans, using the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse to score political points ahead of the debt ceiling debate. It was an appalling act of division and insensitivity, and unlike George W. Bush's My Pet Goat moment on 9/11, it was a calculated abdication of leadership."

I'm not a psychiatrist but President Obama has all of the signs of a man overwhelmed by events.  Mr Hume is right: "too partisan". 

With respect to President Obama, he looks bitter because events have not gone as planned: 

1) They still hate and want to kill us around the world.  "The Cairo Speech" now looks silly in retrospect;  The Arab spring looks like something out of a movie rather than the newsreels;

2) Syria has not gone down well.  He lost a lot of his base on this one;

3) The US economy is not clicking.  On the contrary, more and more people have given up looking for work.  There is now serious income inequality in the 5th year of the Obama presidency;

4) ObamaCare is off to such a bad start and is very unpopular: and,

5) He is not a transforming president.  He is "small" like Carter rather than consequential like Reagan. 

Again, this is not psychiatry.  I'm just looking at a man who can't handle the reality that he has been forced to operate in.  The bad news for all of us is that he has 40 months left of this agony.

You can hear CANTO TALK here:




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All we are saying is give parents a chance

(My new American Thinker post)

 We have a public school crisis. How do I know? Because so many Democrats send their kids to private schools. They take money from the teachers' union but send their kids to private institutions. Obama, Gore, Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, et al!

 The big problem in public education is that parents are not a part of the system. They have no voice because they are not using money (or the taxes that they pay) to choose where their kids go to school.

 This is why I love "the education debit card" by Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation:  
"As parental choice in education takes root in more communities throughout the U.S., education savings accounts (ESAs) have taken on greater importance as the funding mechanism for customized learning. This is especially true in Arizona. The state's version of ESAs, known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, has enabled families to completely tailor their children's educational experience. With Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, Arizona has created a model that should be every state policymaker's goal when considering how to improve education: funding students instead of physical school buildings and allowing that funding to follow children to any education provider of choice."
Put the money in the parents' hands and let them spend it. The net result will be better schools and that will mean more kids ready for the international economy that we are doing business in.

You can hear my chat with Lindsey Burke here:



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