Spinal  meningitis is a very dangerous desease.  Failure to recognize it and treat it can be fatal.  It is now obvious that the country suffers from another even more dangerous condition called having “spineless men who guide us.”

For a long time I have wondered who is the real Obama.  Is he the dangerous left wing radical exposed on the Glenn Beck show?   Or is he merely an incompetent fool with no experience who accidentally got elected President of the United States?   The “brilliant” Obama has pretty much disappeared from sight.  There is still a wide range of opinions with regard to Obama, but neither the left nor the right end of the political spectrum thinks he is up to the job.  The real problem is not that Obama is a left-wind radical, or that he is arrogant or even that he is inexperienced.  The real problem is that he clearly suffers from the lack of a spine.

Normally, a President would gain from making a difficult but necessary decision.  Obama made the right decision to compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts.  If he had come out and said he listened to the people and decided that compromise was in the best interest of the country it would have been his finest hour.  Unfortunately Obama’s two press conferences were so bad that he actually made things worse.  His thin skin was on full public display, when he slammed his liberal base for being daring to say they were disappointed with him.  The equivalent of this would be for a football coach who just lost an important game to blame the loss on his players and insist that he had done his job as a coach but he couldn’t play the game for them.  Then the coach would blame the fans for not giving enough support.   Finally the coach would say that the other team was deliberating doing everything possible to defeat him.

He literally said that negotiating with Republicans was like negotiating with hostage takers and he had to give in to save the hostage.  What an incredibly stupid and dangerous thing to say.  If there was any world leader left who was afraid to confront Obama, all doubt with regard to his weakness has been removed.  Obama has admitted that he cannot tolerate pain, and when presented with a threat, he will fold.

For years the United States has had a firm policy of not negotiating with terrorists.  There is a good reason for that policy.  While giving in to demands may save a hostage but in the long run this just encourages more hostage takers.   

This is a very serious problem.  When it is somewhat entertaining to see Republicans mop the floor with Obama and to watch the liberal left hyperventilate, the problem is that Obama is President of the United States.  We live in dangerous times and we desperately need a leader with a spine to make the difficult decisions.  We are in grave danger when there is no “Spine in the Men Who Guide Us.”

TDM