Obama has 'given up' on the United States

 

 

Washington was never kind to the ill prepared and certainly not to someone unable to rise to the challenge.  Yet we have Mr Obama who must be forced to do the right thing even when there is no other choice possible.


It is going to take a very successful presidency to undo the damage and much of that damage is due to inaction.


History will be unkind to this president.  He needed to do better and I do not see how he could  now.
 

 Obama has 'given up' on the United States

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, doing the rounds to tout his new memoir, suggested that President Obama approaches problems like a law professor.

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

By Martin Barillas

  http://www.speroforum.com/a/DDXSSLETOJ16/75250-Obama-has-given-up-on-the-United-States#.VEFkgUCa_bc

On October 6, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared that President Barack Obama approaches the problems he faces as Chief Executive like a law professor. Speaking to Andrea Mitchell on ABC, Panetta - who also served as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency - he said Obama is "very bright" but has a flawed approach on a number of different issues. In Washington, said Panetta, a president "has to fight to get things done. That is key in Washington."

Panetta said, "He [Obama] approaches things like a law professor in presenting a logic of his position. There is nothing wrong with that. We want to have a president who thinks through the issues. My experience in Washington is that logic alone doesn't work. Once you lay out a position, you are going to roll up your sleeves and you have to fight to get it done. That is key in Washington. In order for presidents to succeed, they cannot just -- when they run into problems, step back and give up."

"There is a feeling and I have a feeling that the leadership and the president have given up on the big issues facing this country whether it's immigration or a budget deal or infrastructure funding or trade or energy. there is a sense that you can't deal with that. This country needs that. They can't give up."

Panetta also faulted Obama for not leaving enough US troops behind in Iraq in order to quickly respond to the challenges posed by the ruthless jihadi terrorists of the Islamic State. In addition, he said that the attack on the US diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, was a terrorist act and known to be such on the day that Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by Islamist terrorists.