Unfit to Lead

I've been catching up on the news that I missed while on vacation, and I am once again struck by how unfit Obama is to lead this great country and what an embarrassment his allies in Congess are. Here are the pieces of news that caught my attention:

1. Obama gave a press conference with Mexican president Felipe Calderon at the White House last week. Essentially, Obama and Calderon took turns bashing Arizona for its anti-illegal immigration law. As William Bennett & Seth Leibsohn put it, "Allowing the running down of a part of the United States by the head of a foreign government, at the White House, standing next to the president — who not only didn’t challenge him, but encouraged him — is a foreign- and domestic-policy catastrophe." In addition to the disgrace of our President publicly taking Mexico's side against his own country, he also allowed Calderon to badly misrepresent the Arizona law and gave him a free pass regarding Mexico's immigration policy, which is far more harsh, restrictive, and inhumane than Arizona's.

2. After the press conference with Obama, Calderon spoke before a joint session of Congress, which was presided over by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice-President Joe Biden. Once again Calderon ripped into Arizona for its new illegal immigration law (which mirrors our country's federal law). Not only was Calderon not booed off the stage, but he got a standing ovation from nearly two-thirds of the assembled audience -- including virtually all the Democrats in Congress and everyone from Obama's administration including his cabinet. As Andrew McCarthy of National Review says, "Make no mistake: In the Congress of the United States on Thursday, it was a hostile Mexico against a besieged Arizona. Mexico won in a rout."

3. John Morton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, met with reporters last week and told them that his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. Great. Now the federal government is going to refuse to enforce their own laws and discriminate against one specific U.S. state in the process.

4. Obama gave a few remarks at the signing ceremony for the Daniel Pearl Press Freedom Act. Daniel Pearl was the Jewish American who was kidnapped and decapitated on video by radical Muslims in Pakistan back in 2002. Here's what Obama had to say about this: "“Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination because it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.” Yeah, one of those moments that captured the world's imagination, just like Princess Di's wedding. This kind of pathetic pablum shows his attitude toward the War on Terror. He uses passive language to sugarcoat the truth and avoid any reference to evil. Which has been his entire administration's attitude toward terrorism from day one.

5. Over the weekend, the Pennsylvania Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Sestak, reiterated that the Obama Administration offered him an administration job in exchange for him dropping his primary campaign against preferred White House candidate Arlen Specter. This is a bribe, pure and simple. It's a violation of federal law. There should be an investigation to find out who was behind this bribe and whether Obama was involved. Anyone taking bets on whether The Most Ethical Congress in History is going to open investigations into alleged wrongdoing by The Most Transparent Administration in History?