Something incredible is going to happen tonight.  This is unprecedented in our nation’s history.  A President of the United States is going to speak to the nation and ask for authorization to go to war, sort of.  Actually he is going to explain why ISIS is a threat to national security, somewhat oblivious to the fact that the American people figured this out before he did.  He is then going to explain what he is going to do about it by concentrating on what he won’t do.  He will then ask congress for support he says he does not need and odds are he will be unable to resist taking some shots at Republicans.

Recent polls are amazing and unprecedented.  Normally a President who asks for approval to go to war soars in approval as the nation unites behind him.  That has always happened in the past.  But this time while the nation supports the war, they don’t support the President.  This is the price of leading from behind.  No one trusts President Obama to lead anything.  I can’t recall any American President who blundered his way into this worst case scenario.  This does ring eerily similar to when Neville Chamberlain tried to rally support after he had blundered his way into World War II.  He was literally booed out of office.  Great Britain had a solution for that problem, Parliament voted to appoint Winston Churchill as Prime Minister and the rest is history.  However in this country, there is no option for congress to vote for a new President to replace one who is clearly incompetent.  Instead we either have to impeach this one and hope that Biden will miraculously be better, or wait until 2016.

Sadly, I have been waiting for a moment like this, but I always hoped it would never happen.

TDM