In case you missed Fox News Sunday yesterday, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan discussed the current crisis in Ukraine with Chris Wallace. Rogers was blunt about his assessment on Obama’s failure. Rogers said Putin is playing chess while Obama is busy playing marbles.
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Pirate’s Cove clarifies exactly what Obama is doing. He’s not playing marbles. He’s pitching pennies.
One of Obama’s problems is that he just doesn’t seem to care about the details of doing the job of POTUS, as I’ve mentioned. The other is that, excepting for campaigning for himself, Obama lives in the now. He’s the ultimate social media president. With campaigning, there’s an end point, a goal. You have to hand it to him, he is one of the best at campaigning. Everything else seems to be based in the now, with some flashbacks to score political points. There is no forward thinking, not “strategery”, no planning.
Remember how Obama and the media lambasted Mitt Romney for calling Russia a “geo-political foe”? In fact, what Romney was doing was thinking ahead. Anyone who has spent time being a high-end leader knows you have to think ahead. You want to attempt to head future issues off at the pass. It doesn’t always work, of course. But you plan. Companies have short term and long term plans. There has to be strategic thinking, because other companies are going to attempt to beat them. The Pentagon has plans to take on Canada. Does anyone think there isn’t a plan involving the use of nuclear weapons against Canada? Or even Jamaica?
Obama lives in the now, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. He doesn’t want to know what is coming, what the long term threats are, what could happen. And he surrounds himself with people who are all about the “now”. His domestic policy isn’t much better.
He’s not playing marbles: he’s pitching pennies, where the idea is to get this penny.