{"id":36563,"date":"2013-07-09T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36563"},"modified":"2013-07-09T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:45:14","slug":"policy-on-auto-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36563","title":{"rendered":"Policy on auto-pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard in the last few days about our Secretary of State, John Kerry, who decided to take a cruise on his yacht while Egypt burned. Of course, as we’ve seen from the State Department on most issues, they denied that was the case initially, even when confronted with photographic evidence of the contrary. Finally, the State Department admitted that their boss was on a float<\/a> while the Army tossed out the elected head of Egypt’s government.<\/p>\n

Today, Israeli media are complaining about Kerry’s focus on negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians, an impossible quest, while other issues, like Egypt and Syria, demand his attention;<\/p>\n

Ynet News\u2019 Hagai Segal\u2019s angle: Why is Mr. Kerry trying to hard to facilitate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, when Egypt and Syria are in utter chaos?<\/p>\n

Even The New York Times wonders this question, Ynet said. And his work to bring about this deal is only \u201cplacing American foreign policy in a ridiculous light,\u201d the Israeli paper opined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. cannot make peace between Arabs and other Arabs, yet it believes it can make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. \u2026 Is it possible that John Kerry is more talented than all the American mediators who came before him? Not at all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe working on Syria and Egypt is too hard for the silver spoon Secretary of State. It might even involve staying in a a three or four star hotel. Of course, our foreign policy isn’t the only thing on cruise control, The Hill<\/a> noticed that Democrats in the Capital are complaining about a lack of leadership from the White House;<\/p>\n

Supporters and critics of President Obama are looking for leadership on many pressing issues from the White House, but many believe they are not getting it.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Obama held a Cabinet meeting and spoke about his effort to modernize government databases.<\/p>\n

He avoided public remarks on several matters seen as more pressing, such as turmoil in Egypt and the wider Middle East, faltering efforts to reform immigration in the U.S. and the rocky implementation of ObamaCare. Instead the president spoke to a small group of reporters about his efforts to improve databases and make government more efficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working to make huge swaths of your government more transparent and more accountable than ever before,\u201d Obama said at the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if you guys were looking for leadership, you should have run someone else in 2008, I’ve been saying since then that Obama isn’t a leader, he’s a community organizer. A leader tells you what’s best for you and then convinces you that what he’s doing is right. A community organizer does stuff that makes the people around him smile, whether it’s the right or wrong thing to do. A leader takes on the toughest issues first, a community organizer does the easy things first so people smile at him.<\/p>\n

Does Obama have some grand plan to make the world right again? Maybe, but he’s not telling us about it, like a leader would. All we get from the White House is lies and obfuscation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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