Mr. President, Do You Recall What Your Job Is?

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American Thinker:

Listening to President Obama speak at event after event, the question that continues to come to mind is this: does this guy understand what his job actually is?

The president continually sounds very much like a fire marshal. He sounds like that guy who has the job of discovering the root cause of a fire, determining if it had been set deliberately, and if it had been, identifying the perpetrator and bringing him to justice.

This is an important function, to be sure, and in no way is it a minor responsibility. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama seems confused about his job responsibilities. In 2008 he was not elected to be the nation's fire marshal.

He was hired to be the nation's chief fireman.

In short, his job is not to allocate blame for the fire. His job, to put it quite simply, is to put the damn fire out.

We didn't elect the man to view the fire from some Olympian height until it burns itself out from lack of fuel, and only then sally forth and (predictably) identify Republicans protecting millionaires and billionaires as those who were vigorously rubbing two mortgage derivatives together and started the fire in the first place. But America has dozens of fires blazing away every single day.
We have 14 million men and women out of work.

We have younger children who appear to be unable to improve their standardized test scores no matter how much money is channeled to the teachers' unions. We have older children who appear equally clueless when asked why they are "occupying" Wall Street or what they hope to accomplish.

We are continuing to lose tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs to Mexico and various countries in the Far East, and nothing suggested as a cure by the president or by unions that supported and helped elect him in 2008 has the slightest chance of reversing that trend.

We find ourselves utterly dependent on energy from nations that are our avowed enemies and hate us and everything we stand for with a religious fervor or, perhaps more accurately, because of a religious fervor.

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Mr. President, Do You Recall What Your Job Is?

 

 

 

 

 

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