Barack Obama pretending to be President and attempting to deal with all those challenges

Like a deer in the headlights

By Klaus Rohrich
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

I’m noticing that people are a lot more nervous than they used to be, say back in the Bush days, when our greatest fear was another, possibly worse, terrorist attack that could result in scores of thousands of deaths. The pervasive nervousness these days is of the kind one might see upon entering a room where a baby is playing with half-filled bottles of nitroglycerin or maybe a loaded Glock-17.

People seem to understand that there is a pervasive threat of grave peril as they observe Barack Obama pretending to be President and attempting to deal with all those challenges in ways that a real President would. Instead, he’s like a deer caught in the headlights as that Mack truck of uncertainty bears down upon him in the night and he is frozen in hesitant irresolution.

What to do about Afghanistan, world terrorism, Iran, North Korea, the economy, swine flu and all the myriad issues that arise to confront the most powerful human being on earth? Yet all he seems capable of managing in the face of this morass is to be in perpetual campaign mode, continuing to mouth meaningless platitudes designed to hide the fact that there is little or no substance in anything he has undertaken to date.

Yes, the so-called $787 billion “stimulusâ€