Posted by
Steve on Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:30:17 AM
Last night, our Fearless Leader gave his speech on Afghanistan. In the speech he outlined the schedule for the drawdown of troops. Basically the schedule was politically motivated by the political situation in the United States. He also said we would never rest from fighting Al Qaeda until they are defeated, then he proceeded to propose the troop drawdown.
The speech was made up of contradictions and statements that would be hard to justify. For example: how can you say we are keeping the pressure on Al Qaeda and withdraw the troops at the same time. I suppose there may be some logic there, but most people would be hard pressed to find it. If you are keeping the pressure on Al Qaeda, you keep the troops there to do that. If you are not keeping the pressure on Al Qaeda, you withdraw troops. Withdrawing troops should produce less pressure on Al Qaeda, but I am not a militarily trained mind. I just use logic to try and figure things out.
Obama said that he would release 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserve to try and reduce gas prices. This is nothing more than a band aid approach to the oil problem. He caused the oil prices to skyrocket when he stopped the drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. Since the Gulf oil spill, we have only issued one oil drilling permit. That is not enough to produce the oil needed to keep the price down or the supplies up. The way to solve the problem he caused is to open up drilling in all areas in the United States that have oil reserves. This would immediately bring down oil prices and increase oil inventory in the long term. He would not have had to dip into the oil reserve to do that. But, now we have to replace the oil he released from the oil reserve. He is definitely not thinking long term. His whole focus is on November 2012 and his re-election. Everything else comes second in his mind.
The reports I have seen and heard about the speech say that support for the speech is thin and mixed. Confusion marks the response more than anything else. Nobody really knows what he said. Barry Young of KFYI read a statement that Barack Obama made last night and it made no sense to me. Since I was driving I did not write it down. I do not remember exactly what it said. I just remember the total confusion on trying to figure out the meaning of the statement. I am not dumb. I have two Masters Degrees to my credit, so I have lots of education. It is very rare that someone can confuse me with words, unless there is absolutely no logic behind the words. That was the case with the statement that Barry Young read. There was no logic to the statement so it made no sense at all.
If Obama’s purpose in giving the speech was to confuse Al Qaeda, he must have succeeded. He definitely succeeded with Congress and the Press. Pundits have more time to evaluate the speech, so they should come in with better analysis later today or tomorrow.
To me, most of what Obama does and says is a total mystery. No sane person would do or say what Obama does and expect things to go well. The only logical conclusion that can be drawn from that observation is that Obama must not intend for things to go well when he makes decisions.
We need someone in the White House who can make good decisions that will benefit the United States now and in the future. We need to stop all these decisions that hurt us now and into the future. Electing someone who understands the economy will go a long way to restore fiscal sanity to the US. Electing someone with a coherent foreign policy would also go a long way to secure the long term security of the country. Obama comes up deficient in both of those policies.