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August 12, 2008

When A Real 3 AM Moment Came - The 'Pretend President' Blew It

Topics: Political News and commentaries

When fate gave Obama a chance to be presidential rather than pretend, he blew it, and judging by his reaction to the Georgia-Russia crisis, Obama's pretend presidency isn't even close to being ready for prime time.

Jonah Goldberg frames it nicely:

[...] During Obama's make-believe presidency, we've heard about bold action, about the courage to talk to dictators. When faced with a real "3 a.m. moment," Obama -- who boasts about 200 foreign policy advisors, broken into 10 subgroups -- proclaims, "I'm going to get some shave ice."

[...] The campaign significance for Obama is easier to calculate. He has been playacting at being presidential in order to convince voters that we live in a "new moment" with "new challenges" -- and that he is the president we need for this new era.

This moment calls for more than playacting, yet Obama looks lost without a presidential script. Events in the Caucasus -- and, for that matter, in Beijing -- suggest that the times aren't so new after all. Two powerful antidemocratic foes are once again flexing their muscles at a moment when America seems weak and distracted.

That is not a new challenge but a very old one. Perhaps this is not a time for a novice spouting grand rhetoric about a new page in history, but for someone who's actually read the pages of some old, but still relevant, books. Perhaps this is not the time for playacting.

Continue reading, "Obama without his script."

As Paul at Powerline notes, contrary to the Klutz Obama (my description not Paul's), John McCain "has a huge leg-up on foreign policy and military matters will translate into a huge leg-up for our country, if we still care enough about world, and about our national security, to elect him president":

McCain's intense interest in foreign policy and military issues, combined with excellent instincts, gives him a huge leg-up in these matters, and not just as compared to the woefully inexperienced Barack Obama. This was evident when it came to the surge in Iraq. It is also evident from the fact that McCain has had the correct line on Russia and the intentions of Putin with respect to Russia's neighbors. Here is McCain discussing this matter in 2007. Watch for his pet line: "I looked into Putin's eyes and I saw three letters -- a K, a G, and a B."

Posted by Richard at August 12, 2008 6:59 PM

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