Reno Hayek Symposium

Thomas Sowell’s brilliant commentary in Real Clear Politics  succinctly points out the dangers of our boy president and his fawning minions. Would that the fourth estate, or what remains of it, had a better sense of balance. It certainly has no sense of shame in putting the rookie in office! 

Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game.

We now have a rookie President of the United States and, in the dangerous world we live in, with terrorist nations going nuclear, just one rookie mistake can bring disaster down on this generation and generations yet to come.

Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other Presidents in American history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been President before. He has never had any position of major executive responsibility in any kind of organization where he was personally responsible for the outcome.

Other first-term Presidents have been governors, generals, cabinet members or others in positions of personal responsibility. A few have been senators, like Barack Obama, but usually for longer than Obama, and had not spent half their few years in the senate running for President.

What is even worse than making mistakes is having sycophants telling you that you are doing fine when you are not. In addition to all the usual hangers-on and supplicants for government favors that every President has, Barack Obama has a media that will see no evil, hear no evil and certainly speak no evil.

via RealClearPolitics – Articles – A Rookie President.

Hit the link. It’s worth the read.

Tom Motherway, tom@renohayek.com