PrintSeptember 30, 2009
Playing At Being President
The longer he is in office, the more it appears that Barack H. Obama doesn't really want to be president but only to play at being president. He doesn't seem interested in dealing with the messy, day-to-day responsibilities of the president's job. He doesn't want to be the Chief Executive and propose legislation that will move the country forward to new heights. He doesn't want to be Commander-In-Chief of the military and execute a necessary war. He doesn't take on the fiscal responsibilities required of the executive to deal with our economic issues. He doesn't want to be leader of the United States and act with dignity and forcefulness to put American interests forward in the world community.
Barack Obama, like a child playing a game, seems to ignore reality and live in a make-believe world. He goes to international conferences and makes speeches so that (as he imagines) the countries of the world see him as the organizer of a global community; he appears on radio and television to speak and be seen as the leader of the country that he refuses to lead; he wants to talk; he loves to talk. And like the child who plays at being doctor or father or mother, he talks about what he wants. Like a child, he overuses the first person pronouns. All his rhetoric is "I" and "me" and "my" and, sometimes, the inclusive "us" and "our." He wants to be seen and heard. But he doesn't want to do (except to make speeches, and even these are prepared by others, canned, and read from a teleprompter). Those speeches in which he does seem to be taking charge are followed by a child-like loss of interest in the subject. He loses interest in playing that game and goes on to another.
In the meantime, other world leaders, especially our enemies and potential enemies are operating in the real world of economic turmoil, international power rivalry, and horrendous weapons. In these perilous times, made more so by his apparent lack of interest in dealing maturely with real issues, we cannot afford to have a chief executive who abdicates his duties and only plays at being president.
Walt Bussey, a retired computer systems analyst, publishes The Lemming Watch
To comment on this or any other American Thinker article or blog, you must be a subscriber to our ad-free service. Login to your subscription to access the comments section. You can subscribe on a monthly basis for $6.79 a month or for a year at $69.99
Login
Subscribe / Change PwdAd Free / Commenting Login
FOLLOW US ON
Recent Articles
- The Upside Of A Terminal Illness
- Can You Trust that Airplane?
- Closing the DoE
- The Arbery Shooting: The Facts
- Unleashing American Competitiveness: Trump and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- EU and Ukraine: Stop Blaming Trump, Look in the Mirror
- The Democrats Descend into Madness
- The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a $2 Billion USAID Power Grab
- The Enduring Battle Over ‘Merit’
- Who Is Andrew Tate and Why Is The President Trying to Protect Him?
Blog Posts
- There’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s taking no prisoners.
- So-called ‘Gender affirming’ surgery is bad for people’s happiness
- Stacey Abrams takes a page from Hugo Chavez on the matter of home appliances
- After Trump's speech, they can’t get there from here
- In San Francisco, a bathhouse gets grief for trying to have a ‘phallus free’ environment
- Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?' Some leftists think so
- ‘People used to care about each other’
- At Twitter, a single point of failure for freedom
- Active-duty soldiers indicted for disclosing sensitive government info to China
- Zelensky's arrogance
- Americans have already chosen their fighter
- Breaking the chains of financial enslavement
- Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
- Michelle Wu sets a new criminal-enabling standard
- California tries to tear down the Castle Doctrine