Experience Matters

Ok, really, things are now starting to get embarrassing.

The voters went to the polls and elected an individual inexperienced in managing anything other than his campaign for election. In fact, when pressed on his lack of experience, it was his skill at managing his large campaign staff that he raised to refute the accusation. Campaigning, it would seem, was his best qualification for office.

What mattered to most was Obama's skill behind the teleprompter, his voice, his persona, hope, and change. And to 52% of the American voting public, it was good enough.

And the last six weeks are now history. A six weeks that could prove to be the worst six weeks of any presidency ever, and given Jimmy Carter's abysmal record, that is saying something.

There is not one component of Obama's administration that is firing on all cylinders. The failures began early on with cabinet choice after cabinet choice being exposed as a tax cheat. Even his choice to rein in tax cheats was a tax cheat.

His handling of the economy has been a mishmash of blame casting on others (for policies enacted that he was in full support of) and of reiterating to the public that things are simply horrible. The market, in full sympathy, has tanked to levels not seen in many years. When pressed on accusations being aimed at him and his penchant for socialism, Obama stuttered and stammered in a way rarely seen in a high school speech class. The impromptu interview was such a disaster that Obama saw fit in the aftermath to contact the reporter to clarify on his stammering. That teleprompter, so it seems, is a way good invention.

His foreign policy has amounted to a global apology tour that has done nothing but given despots like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez golden opportunities to promote their legitimacy amongst America's enemies and their own controlled masses. Our allies are snubbed while our enemies are pleadingly presented with 'I'm sorry' notes with the presidential seal.

Domestic policy has been little more than machine gun payoffs for his most valued constituencies, pro-abortionists, unions, environmentalists, and today, his beloved advocates of embryonic stem cell research.

There is no doubt that the media carried Barack's water during the campaign doing everything that it could to present Obama as the great healer. Rather than explore Obama's lack of experience, they instead attacked Sarah Palin, a woman with exponentially more experience in administration and management than Obama had.

He was, to the media, the man that could. He could transcend politics as normal. He could get things done. As Chris Matthews' leg gyrated, Brian Williams waxed poetic. As the New York Times covered for him, the crones at The View wanted him under the covers.

Obama is little more than six weeks in to his first (and probably last) term, and he is already too tired to properly greet his closest foreign ally properly. He has not had enough time or energy to properly screen his highest political appointments, but has had plenty of time to orchestrate personal attacks against Rush Limbaugh. Priorities.

Too many packs of smokes, I suppose, have sucked the stamina out of a man that many believed could carry the whole of the world on his shoulders.

And it took all of six weeks.

Experience matters.