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In his brief life, my guess is, he has been posing all along. He had no role model as a father. He had no lasting role model as an adult. Now he has to produce. No one else can serve as his hidden adviser. He has to lead and he has not a clue as to what to do. Thus, to the golf course he goes, no matter how his critics complain or how a growing number of journalists express their dismay.
As he swings his driver and puts his putter, the press seems to sense something is amiss. Yet even the sensible minority in the press corps does not know quite how to respond. Out there on the golf course the President is displaying his emptiness. There has never been such a display of presidential emptiness in American history. Moreover, it is taking place just as the world is gravely menaced by a threat that is at best ambivalent towards destroying the world in the name of Allah. Its adepts have the money and the manpower to strike the modern world a deadly blow. All they need is a bomb. Will they get it?
When Communism posed a lesser threat to the world, but a threat nonetheless, we had a range of presidents from President Harry Truman to President Ronald Reagan who had the character and the principles to deal with the threat. They were attended by staff, and for that matter a leadership class, that was up to the task. Today we have President Obama attended by Valerie Jarrett. I think I would like to call for a special election here and now, but quite possibly the President would pull together his old coalition and win again. Some coalitions never learn from experience.
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Golf Is Not the Answer | The American Spectator
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