L to S

It is difficult to believe that the simple change of an L to an S ... ISIL to ISIS ... has made such a dramatic difference in just 10 months. Now ISIS fighters who just last year, as ISIL, were cutting the heads off Christians ... now are befouling themselves when captured by the Kurds in Iraq. It is clear to me that Obama was merely going through the motions of trying to defeat that "JV team, ISIL" .... unwilling to bomb their oil-truck convoys that funded these murders ... or really carry the fight to these monsters. Our community organizer's years of pretending to "degrade ISIL" were a sham and it cost the American taxpayers billions and created a worldwide immigration crisis which, in turn, promulgated hundreds of terrorist attacks.

Now our new president has changed this enemy's name to ISIS and promised to DEFEAT them ... and is doing just that by unleashing his military and arming the Kurds. And this bit of simplicity is clearly working. I suspect it will take many years until historians recognize this truth ... that is, unless Ken Burns tells the tale.

I also suspect, nay predict, that the same scenerio may soon be taking place in Afghanistan as it becomes clear to the Taliban that its opposition is now serious about destroying them.

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!