This is a really well stated article about the feckless, disgusting leader of America.
But you people picked him, my American friends. TWICE!?!?!?!?
I don't mean to depress you even further, but alas-it's very well-written so do have a read.
"This is a man who sought and embraced the power that comes with the
presidency but even after six years in the White House, he has not
learned that along with the ability to make important decisions, the
essence of such an office is moral leadership."
"That means that
presidents, like all world leaders, are not merely acting a part in a
political play but are actually setting the tone for their nation’s
national discussion and behavior on crucial subjects. Great leaders,
such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, understood this even as
their critics attacked them for being theatrical showmen. Obama not
only refuses to play such a role, he still seems to not to understand
that such symbolic acts are in some ways as important as policymaking."
"But, of course, there’s more here than mere tone deafness to public
opinion. The president’s flat line response to the Charley Hebdo
massacre and then the terrorist attack on the kosher market in Paris
(which he failed to characterize as an act of anti-Semitism in his
public statement after it happened) illustrated his lack of comfort on
this terrain."
Diplomatic!
