Nowhere To Hide

Listening to Obama in the Rose Garden we must admit to a moral lapse in the man, something which cheers many of his detractors but simply saddens those of us who look to the interests of America before politics.

As Peggy Noonan observed, "When you try to dodge ownership of a problem, when you try to hide from responsibility, life will give you ownership and responsibility the hard way."

Obama, deer-in-the-headlights fashion blamed the oil mess on Bush by noting that, "...these problems have been around for a decade or more..." The fact is that is was bo's Interior Dept which gave BP a "categorical" environmental exemption in '09. Obama administration officials last year short-circuited the process; thus Transocean and BP drilled this well without full environmental and safety review. Oh, that.

In Obama we have an individual ill equipped to do most anything except talk and seek cover. Is that why his ratings are in the tank? Suppose so. Most folk, even Democrats expect a president to get things done, not spend all of his time blaming his predecessor and feeling sorry for himself.

Just for amusement's sake, let's take a look at Excuse Number One: "He's a war criminal," screech the Marin left. The favorite T-shirt of this bunch - "Bush lied / thousands died" This type, an embarrassment to normal folk. You know, if you're with friends and one of the chatterers chirps up, you move out of range to check the oil, whatever. You might have to acknowledge knowing the guy.

In fact, the day after 9-11 consensus in Congress, including that role-model-of-a-man Ted Kennedy believed Saddam was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and for the simple reason that in 1998 he gave a long list of both chemical and germ components to the UN. Was he lying? Ask the Kurds about an earlier time. He may have lied about his arsenal in 1998; that doesn't make Bush out to be a liar. And most of the left have come to understand this fact. They have also come to understand, at least most of them, that they were used, made out to be dupes.

There are plenty who still take DNC talking points to heart, just a whole lot less of them nowadays. Folks don't want to be made out to be fools, certainly not twice.

BO depended on this group's loyalty for nourishment, for his support and he courted them without fail. As the excuses grow older and the stalwarts grow fewer our dear leader finds he has nowhere to hide.

Robert Craven