Some less than positive thoughts about President's Day....

President's Day seems like an apropos time to reflect on the good fortune that America has had in choosing it's presidents over the last couple of hundred years. We've had great ones, starting with George Washington himself, we've had mediocre ones, and a couple of pretty lame ones ...

But for the most part, our presidents have risen to their position and to the occasion, Harry Truman comes to mind.  

But our Presidents are only as good as the citizens that elect them, and with few exceptions the American voters have done well.  One of those exceptions occurred in 2008.

Fifty-three percent of the voters that went to the polls decided they wanted 'hope & change' even though they were never told exactly what that was. Thus, they elected to the highest office in our land, an inexperienced Illinois state senator who was so afraid of leaving a paper trail, that he managed to vote 'Present' 129 times during his brief tenure in that office. 

Five full months ago, when the al qaeda attack on Benghazi occurred on September 11th, during the full eight hours of the attack, this President didn't even answer 'present' on his telephone. He neither took any calls from his Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, or Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, nor made any offering Commander In Chief's advice. He then left early in the morning (skipping the Daily Intel Briefing, again)  for Las Vegas for a campaign stop. 

This is not my opinion, this is the testimony sworn to under oath in Congress.

President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday. “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster. The White House has said Mr. Obama was kept up to date on the attack by his staff, though after being alerted to the attack in a pre-scheduled afternoon meeting he never spoke again with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin E. Dempsey or then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This empty suit that the voters returned to office just four months ago has since sworn that he will not rest until we all have jobs, the economy is in full swing, guns are gone, the waters recede, global warming cools, and we all have cake to eat - if not bread. 

So, I guess we can assume that these events have all come to pass as he spends the weekend in Florida golfing  with Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon (@$1000 per hour) and Michelle Antoinette drinks cafe mocha latte's on the patio of the plush hotels overlooking the Aspen ski slopes.... 

He barely made it back from that multi-million dollar vaycay in Hawaii to catch AF One to Florida didn't he?