Yet, even this learned and contemplative leader has failed to recognize the road rage which is public opinion for what it is......an emotional response to being offended by something and wanting to punch someone in the snout. Or if you're an NRA nut pod, shoot somebody.
To his credit, Obama has laid out a clear objective (eradication of ISIL) and a realistic time frame (eons). To his discredit, he has failed to reveal the irrationality and unlikelihood of ever achieving the objective and the ultimate cost of not achieving that objective.
Congress has conveyed their own version of latent approval by doing nothing, in much the same way they convey their disapproval.......by doing nothing.
Obama's mistake is relying on public opinion. While it is understandable that an elected official whose approval ratings by a feckless gaggle of self indulgent slugs rises and falls according to their satisfaction with the judge's decision on American idol, reestablishing one's foot in the quagmire that is raghead on raghead violence serves merely to put a smile on John McCain's aged, slack jawed puss.
Such wasted attention to the imagined threat of ISIL, when the very real threat already among us is the consequences of jaywalking, shopping at Walmart, complying a bit to quickly to instructions or waving a butter knife at those who are sworn to protect and serve, but will empty their service pistols at you for no good reason other than just the type of fear of imaginary threats that prevails.
One can disagree with Obama without being idiotic about it. He is, after all, elected by a national majority.....twice. Something nobody in congress can boast, no matter how many talk shows they put their face on.
Coondog
Best line from Riddick...........Half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
