Thanks for your comments. I find your comparison to WWII to be ill founded, as well as your understanding of what Obama actually did.

The basic problem is that we now have a President who has no practical experience to deal with any of the issues presently confronting our country. Platitudes and superior diction are not substitutes for experience, objective thought or knowledge. “Hope” and “Change” are great buzz words, but they are not substitutes for “competence” and “experience”. He has demonstrated neither to any significant degree or by any objective reckoning. Not a single major bill other than the budget busting TARP II have gone the distance and that hasn’t done what it was designed to do. Detroit still looks like London after the Blitz, unemployment is increasing and now he wants to obligate this country to TRILLIONS of deflated dollars of additional spending in an horrific attempt to tax our energy and to nationalize the health care delivery system.

Now he has, after several months of dithering, decided to send in more troops to Afghanistan, the only theater of operations that he, himself approved of. It took him longer to make this decision to deploy 30,000 troops than it took to decide on the planning, training and deployment of over 125,000 troops to invade North Africa during World War II. and that operation was done in a multi-theater world war with very limited capabilities. He also elected to send 25% fewer troops than was requested and has asked reluctant European governments to make up the shortfall. He also made the fatally unwise mistake of giving timetables on withdrawal from Afghanistan. Can you imagine Roosevelt saying to Eisenhower, “Look Ike….This Normandy Invasion thing has to be done and Germany defeated in 18 months… so we can begin our with withdrawal from Europe…even if we don’t completely defeat the Nazis… Oh, and by the way, me and Winston issued a joint press statement about the 18 month withdrawal schedule…” I’m sure the Germans would have been delighted by this sort of thing. I am sure the bad guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan are delighted too… Hold out and hunker down and wait out Obama. Nice strategy Generalissimo Obama.

I am not very confident of Obama and his decision making capabilities when I view his record to date.
On economic issues, he has been patently dishonest with the American people and his ideology, his knowledge of basic business philosophy and economics is not at a level necessary to get the country going again. He simply has no depth in these areas and has surrounded himself with people who are as inept as himself. None of the closest advisers in the West Wing have ever had to run a business that has had to make a profit or make a payroll year after year…not one. How can they possibly have a clue?? How can they possibly relate?? They can’t.

As for his military acumen, he is clearly out of his depth and is not committed to a victory over the terrorist elements in Afghanistan and Pakistan.