The veil slips

So all of this talk about how Obama was going to get us the respect that the world lost for us during those eight dark Bush years seems to have waned and reality is gob-smacking the media. Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard marvels at Chris Matthews comparisons of Obama to Jimmy Carter (where ya been Chris – we were making the comparison in 2007).

Laura W. at Ace of Spades takes a look at the awakening in Maureen Dowd who seems less enthusiastic about Obama these days. Also at Ace of Spades, Uncle Jimbo brings up the Saturday Night Live video from last weekend. Suddenly Obama can be the butt of jokes.

Der Speigel Online’s Gabor Stiengart writes that “Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage” – so much for impressing Europe. I guess Obama now realizes that those Germans weren’t cheering for him in Berlin, they were panhandling.

Claymore wrote to remind us that it’s been 86 days since General McCrystal asked the President for more troops – not to worry, Mr. Decisive is planning to meet more advisors on the subject later today;

The White House said Obama would meet with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other officials at an 8 p.m. EST/0100 GMT Tuesday meeting in the Situation Room.

It will be the ninth such meeting as Obama nears a decision on whether to add as many as 40,000 troops to an eight-year-old war that was started after the September 11 attacks and that has begun to try the patience of the American people.

Wow! Nine whole meeting! That’s almost one meeting every ten days – focused like a laser on our national security. Like a laser.

Can you imagine what would happen if something requiring immediate attention would happen? Well, by immediate attention, I mean that dithering would cost the lives of Am…, oh.

Well, we can always investigate those milbloggers for something to distract everybody.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Media, Military issues