"Can Obama Get A Grip?"

My choice for a title of this post was borrowed from the front page headline of Thursday's New York Post, and I was struck by the similarity to the title of my last post, from last Friday. My swollen ego immediately presumed that somebody in New York read my post, but the law of averages quickly brought me back to earth. I guess it's enough that somebody in New York actually agrees with my opinion, enough to express it similarly. Perhaps there is still hope for that city, after all. I'd about given up on the Socialist capital of western Democracy. Perhaps I should consider running for Mayor some time. Well, maybe not.

Anyway, it's clear that Obama, personally, and his Administration, collectively, are absolutely clueless about what it takes to run a free government without running amok and leaving office with the country in far worse shape than when they found it. These people are supposed to know how to lead this nation, and let the polls fall as they may. Instead they seem to make bad decision, after bad decision, only to make some trumped-up excuse for reversing course after the polls indicate that the people are outraged at their collective lunacy, and demand that they do the right thing. They're supposed to be the leaders, instead of the followers of the people.

A case in point, the C.D.C.'s calling for no travel bans for the west African nations that are on the verge of exporting the Ebola Virus internationally. The collective outrage at the stupidity of this official position is growing to the point that it's only a matter of time before the administration claims some excuse for the necessity of reversing this decision. And I expect that will likely come before the Mid-term Elections, as Obama's own party members in the Senate will demand a reversal to the common sense position, or predict that the Republicans will not only take control of the Congress, but may well send every single Democrat home, for a permanent vacation. Next, the Obama White House is probably desperately hoping they can hold out until after the elections before they are forced to reverse their "no boots on the ground" edict, and send in the Marines, to stop I.S.I.S. in Iraq and Syria, or at least a few divisions of the Army Reserve. One can only guess as to how many head decapitations are acceptable to these people before they realize what it will take to put an end to this bestiality. Or, as the New York Post put it so succinctly, what will it take for this White House to "get a grip"?