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After watching last night's debate I have come to the conclusion that President Obama's campaign theme should not be "Forward". It should really be "How About A Mulligan?" The entire basis of his argument for a second term seems to be to give him another chance. Four more years is all he needs.
We can all see the results of his policies. Our economy is a mess. We are spending over a trillion dollars a year we don't have. The Middle East is in turmoil. A U.S. Ambassador has been assassinated by terrorists and for a month all we heard was that it was caused by an off the wall video. It is it any wonder the President wants a "do over?"
We have not heard anything about a new vision for the next four years. Nothing has been said about what we will do to confront any of our problems domestically. Jobs? Immigration? Trillion dollar deficits?Social Security? Medicare? What about foreign policy? Iran? Turmoil in the Middle East? Russia? Afghanistan? He says trust him, it will be better.
Why does everything seem to feel less secure than when this President took office four years ago? Our finances? Our children's future? Our place in the world?
There has not been one specific statement from President Obama on what he wants to do over the next four years other than raise the taxes on the "rich" and to hire more teachers. There is nothing new about either of those. He has been saying the same thing for the last six years. Somehow he keeps thinking that we will believe that taxing the rich will magically erase the budget deficit and hiring more teachers will somehow lower unemployment over the next four years. Neither is going to happen.
I know that President Obama knows a little about golf. After all, he has played golf over 100 times during his Presidency. As President, he must be used to his playing partners giving him mulligans whenever he asks for them. After all, who is going to say "NO" to the President? However, as voters we have the right, in fact, we have the responsibility, to say "NO" to this President when he wants to take a mulligan on his record over the last four years.
President Obama's "Mulligan" campaign strategy could not have been more clearly on display than in last night's display.
President Obama said last night that the pending sequestration of the defense budget that will result in spending cuts of over $1 trillion over the next ten years and is scheduled to take effect at the end of this year "will not happen". He said he was never in favor of it. However, the White House is where the original idea for sequestration came from during the debt ceiling discussions of 2011 according to Bob Woodward's recent book. And the only reason that this even became necessary in the first place is because President Obama utterly failed in working out a deal with Congress on the debt ceiling. The President failed again when he could not provide leadership in working with the Congressional Debt Commission to come to a deal by the end of last year to find other cuts so that the sequestration would not automatically take effect.
We now hear the President say the defense sequestration cuts are not going to happen? He already has had two shots on this. It would be nice to hear his new plan as to how it is not going to happen. The President is not just asking for a mulligan here. He asking for a mulligan on top of a previous mulligan. Unbelieveable.
President Obama also made a big point last night on how decisive he was after the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans including our Ambassador to Libya. He said "when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way". In the previous debate he said, " So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and procedures, not just in Libya, but at every embassy and consulate in the region."
If you are Commander-in-Chief does it not seem logical, considering the unrest and threats to American interests in the Middle East, that you would have made this call a long time ago? Especially when the American Ambassador to Libya indicated that he was very concerned about the deteriorating security situation in the country. It is clear that the President expects another mulligan. He was way out of bounds the first time so we are supposed to overlook it and see that he did the right thing on his second try?
Finally, in last night's debate, President Obama made much of his trip to Israel as a candidate for President. We are supposed to ignore the the fact that he has chosen to not visit Israel once in his four years as President despite the fact that he found time to apolocize and bow his way through most other countries in the Middle East. Israel is seemingly now once again the President's closest ally. At least until the election is over. How many mulligans does he want?
I am not willing to give this President any more mulligans.
My advice to anyone who is willing to give him four more years after seeing his performance in office and in the debates over the last few weeks...
FORE!
You are very likely to get hit...and hard...if you let this man have the chance to take more swings over the next four years. I don't know where the ball is going. However, I know it is not going down the center of the fairway. This is not someone that plays it down the straight and narrow with anything. Most likely it is going to be deep in the rough or trees on the left side. It very well could be completely out of bounds. From that side, almost everything is unplayable anyway.
You have been forewarned.
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