Ramblings

OK...I've tried to lay off President Obama.....But I can't help myself. He just keeps giving me ammunition. I listened to his "News Conference" last night. I takes him forever to answer a question and even then he really dances around it. When he was asked at the end "as President, what has surprised him, humbled him" etc., he was all over the place with his answer yet not really answering. And then he tried to make a joke about it....."How busy I am! I'd be happy if all I had to worry about were two wars, the worst economy since the Great Depression (why do Democrats always forget about the Carter years? Those years, by any standard, where worse than now!), universal health care, border security, unemployment and bailouts". (I'm paraphrasing) He'd be happy???? That's exactly all he should be working on (except universal health care). Instead he is flying all over the country for "Town Hall meetings", which are completely choreographed, looking for photo ops, yet doing one of the dumbest things a President could do......An Air Force One, low level, fly over "ground zero", in New York city for a photo trailed by two fighter jets and not tell anyone in New York, not even the Mayor, it's going to happen? He's outraged and claims he wasn't aware of it and wants an investigation on what happened and to report back to him in two weeks. Hum...let's see...if you were a CEO and wanted an answer on what happened, you'd have an answer in couple of hours, at the most. Seriously, do you think some one can take Air Force One on a Photo shoot and the President NOT know. If he really didn't know, it proves he is in over his head and his "Handlers" are making all the decisions. Back to the press conference. He didn't take one question from Fox News, which is watched by more people than any other cable news channel. Did he think no one would question why he called on the other major networks and not Fox?? In his mind he is only the President to those who swoon over him or agree with him. You can tell he is lost without the TelePrompter because he rambles, searching for the right thing to say. Did you see on Glenn Beck, a few days ago, where Obama was giving a speech and the teleprompter was evidently out of sequence. He stopped speaking, told someone the teleprompter was showing something he had already said and then waited.....didn't say anything, until it was corrected. It was embarrassing to watch because he is our President and yet he was stumped as to what to say. Unlike Sara Palin, during the Republican Convention, when her teleprompter went out.......she didn't miss a beat....remember the "Hockey Mom" joke? No one even knew her teleprompter went out until later. One Obama advisor is quoted as saying that Mr. Obama is looking at installing a computer screen in White House podiums so "it would make it easier for the comms (communications) guys to pass along information without being obvious about it." The notion that a computer technician is queuing up the president's answers to questions is disturbing. One can easily imagine a Saturday Night Live skit where a technician waits with a canned set of answers to possible questions and from time to time cues up the wrong one. The major news outlets call him "Brilliant, smart, engaging, refreshing"! I'd call him something else but he's my President also.