Our "Do Nothing" President

President Obama has found his legacy. He will be known as the "Do Nothing" president. Oh, he plays golf and pick up basketball, flies around on Air Force One going here and

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there to raise money, gives mini speeches at press conferences (he can go on for 10 minutes on one yes or no answer question), takes expensive vacations and generally disappears when things get rough.

This president has a multitude of serious issues plaguing his administration that demand answers and attention and he is AWOL. Rather than put all the issues to rest by addressing them with the populace he presides over, he has chosen to ignore them, thinking maybe they'll just go away. Sorry, but they won't because, as the "Do Nothing" president, he won't do anything about them.

It's really ironic. Every day this man can be seen on TV speaking to someone about something. He loves the camera, but only when it serves him well. When things are on the down side, he ignores the camera and generally hides under his desk.

It has been obvious over the last four and a half years that Barack Obama does not know how to govern. He can spend money as he has financially crippled this country and put millions out of work. But  he cannot make a decision. He is a procrastinator.

Case in point: We all know that a civil war in Syria has been raging for a good portion of Obama's presidency. The United

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States has stayed out of it, it's not our fight. The president has said in the past that the current bad guy, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, needs to go and we favor the rebels fighting the government. But, to this point, we have done nothing to help their cause. 

Flash back to last April. There were indications that Assad had used chemical weapons on his own people. Obama said if that were true, Assad crossed the red line ( I guess it's ok to kill your people with conventional weapons like guns, grenades and bombs, but gassing them is a no-no), and the U.S. would have to get involved. Click The Video:

Forward to today, when a government spokesman made a statement that said we now know that Assad had crossed that red line. A spokesman? Where was the president? We are about to commit this country again militarily and financially to a foreign conflict and the president sends an underling out to announce it to the world? Heaven forbid if George Bush shirked his presidential duties in the same way...can you hear the thunder over that!? Bush wouldn't, but Obama would, and did. Not surprising, though, from a "Do Nothing" president.

And just what are we doing in Syria? Don't know. Again, not much info from this White House.

"The president has made the decision to authorize additional assistance, but we're not going into specifics," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan told FoxNews.com Friday. "The president has been very clear that all options are on the table, with the exception of U.S. troops on the ground. That is not a possibility."

Note: No one will ever say it, and we need not know, but boots are probably already on the ground in Syria in the form of CIA or Navy Seal special operations people. How else would we know for sure chemical weapons were used? Inspectors have not been allowed in that country and Assad surely isn't going to tell us.

Per Ms. Meehan's statement above one might glean that that administration has not decided exactly how will intervene in Syria. Again, the specter of a "Do Nothing" president rears it's ugly head. We have known since April that chemical weapons may have been used and the president does not know on this day specifically how he will respond. He and his minions have had two months to come up with a plan to put forward should the need arise...and nothing! 

He's going to a G8 conference in Europe next week and wants to discuss a response with our allies then. This should have been done during the last two months by phone with our allies. 

There are those in Congress that have issues with us arming the Syrian rebels. Read More: U.S. To Get Involved in Syrian Civil War

National syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has it right. Obama enjoys all the fruits of being president, the

Charles Krauthammer

plane, playing golf, vacations, but Krauthammer says, "He is a bystander to his own presidency."  

Well said!

One can only hope that President Obama will soon wake up to the seriousness of the issues surrounding his presidency. They affect us all. Despite what side of the political spectrum you favor, no one wants a "Do Nothing" president. After all...the world is watching.




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