Punctuality

Why is Obama almost always late? Yesterday afternoon he was over an hour late for his scheduled press conference focused on his Africa summit. And now the Washington Post has finally taken notice and documented that he has been cumulatively tardy well over 35 hours just for his 200 public appearances in 2014 … see: Washington Post Story .  This averages out to being about 11 minutes late per scheduled appearance.

One can offer numerous excuses for this lack of punctuality, but none seems more to my taste than he is just unconcerned by such social niceties. If we are willing to wait for him … like his six month delay in deciding about how to wage his "just war" in Afghanistan … then this shows how much we respect him and forgive him his foibles ... his tendency to lead from behind (a true oxymoron if I ever heard one.).

He is constantly kicking the can down the road and putting off any truly decisive action in dealing with Russia’s mischief in the Ukraine, the ISIS advances in Iraq, the Syrian civil war, Iran’s potential nuclear belligerence, the Israeli/Gaza turmoil, U.S. tax reform, the immigration crisis, all his many serious governmental scandals, chronic underemployment, etc., etc.

So what is a mere eleven minutes? Get over it you "bitter clingers" ... you "typical white folks" you!

Surprise!

In 2008 53% of Americans voted to elect Barack Obama as our President ... many based on the premise that this would prove that they were not racists ... and, as an added benefit, the stain of slavery would be forever removed from our country's cirriculum vitae.  Now we discover that Obama's "typical white folks" comment (referring to his Caucasian grandparents) back in those Helicon days was just a peek behind the curtain of his inherent reverse racism.  Pulling the curtain all the way back, we now discover the true extent of Obama's odium toward many of those who elected him to the highest office in this country.  It's not a pretty picture ... see: Daily Caller Video.  (Those of you who chose not to click on this link, needn't continue reading.) 

Why this fairly bright, extensively privileged man of mixed racial heritage would have such animosity toward half of his DNA frankly escapes me?  Perhaps his white mother's radical teachings in his formative years?  Perhaps his lost love and longing for his African father?  Perhaps some anti-American indoctrination in the madrassas he attended in Indonesia?  Perhaps his experiences as a community organizer among Chicago street gangs?  Perhaps his friendship with that anarchist, Bill Ayres?  Perhaps listening for 20 years to the pulpit rantings of that avowed racist, Reverend Wright and his Black Liberation Theology teachings?

Whatever the root cause of his deep-seated racial bias, I think those of us willing to see can clearly follow Obama's governing track for evidence of this crippling slant ... not just his back-seat decision-making, but his wreckless mortgaging of our country's future.  By comparison, such a rant makes Romney's "47%" comment look pale ... if you will excuse the expression