"On Wednesday night, Mitt Romney was respectful of Barack Obama when Barack Obama challenged him. Mitt Romney looked Barack Obama in the eye when Barack Obama challenged Romney. He kept a smiling demeanor to his challenge in the room.
Wednesday night, Mitt
Romney was the challenge in the room for Barack Obama and Barack Obama would
not look at him. Barack Obama kept his head down, eyes fixed on his podium.
This is a metaphor for the entirety of Barack Obama’s Presidency.
Mr. Obama does not make eye
contact with the challenges he faces. He looks down or away.
He came into the White
House to dire fiscal times. No one denies it. But Barack Obama declared a
recovery in June of 2009. Instead of looking the challenge in the eyes and
staring it down, Barack Obama declared it no longer a problem and pivoted to
healthcare. Even as the fiscal storm raged, Barack Obama said it turned out to
be worse than he and his advisors expected, but he wouldn’t make eye contact
with the problem. He set about destroying our healthcare system instead in the
name of reform.
In 2010, the Deepwater
Horizon exploded off shore. It took the President almost two months to look the
challenge in the eyes, address the nation, and tell us what he was going to do.
In the meantime, his administration overreacted doing untold harm to the Gulf
Coast economy. Still, the President refused to meet the challenge of our
economic situation, pivoting from health care to Solyndra.
Now, we have another
challenge. The Middle East is in chaos and our Ambassador is dead. The
Presidential campaign went from “Osama is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run” to
“Al Qaeda is alive and our Ambassador assassinated.” But the President refused
to face this challenge too. Instead, he blamed a YouTube video. We now know the
President and his administration knew of the security risk. We now know the
President and his administration were pretty sure, within twenty-four hours of
September 11th, that we had yet again been attacked by terrorists on September
11th.
But the President refused
to look us or the problem in the eyes. As his Press Secretary, Secretary of
State, and Defense chiefs were beginning to acknowledge it was a terrorist
attack, Barack Obama still refused to make eye contact with the problem. He
refused to even acknowledge it existed, hiding still behind a YouTube video.
I have reservations about
Mitt Romney. I’m a conservative. Of course I do. They are well known. But make
no mistake about it — Mitt Romney will make eye contact with the challenges of
the day instead of looking away at a podium, a desk, or a distraction. I may
not always agree with him, but at least I know I can trust him to make eye
contact with the challenges of our day and set about solving them, not looking
for easy distractions and fleeting glories.
Barack Obama won’t make eye
contact with the challenges of the day and he won’t accept responsibility for
having to deal with them. Nothing is his fault. Nothing is his blame. Only
credit flows to Barack Obama. Now more people are out of the job market than
any time since the Carter recession, our Ambassador to Libya is dead, and the
black flag of Al Qaeda rises from our own flag poles at our own Embassies in
the Middle East.
For five years the left has
told us Barack Obama came off Mount Olympus to be our God-King. Now they say
the elevation in Denver, lower than that of Olympus, was too high for him. The
god-king of the Cult of Personality bleeds. Pay no attention to any of it. Make
no eye contact with reality — not to him being merely a flawed man in over his
head, not to our dead Ambassador, not to the unemployed, not to Al Qaeda’s
black flag.
No, the god-King commands we pay attention to Big Bird and birth control — issues that, unlike Christopher Stevens and millions of unemployed, truly matter when staring down at the podium instead of making eye contact with the future."
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