When Will Obama Stop Blaming Bush?

It's now a year since Obama has been in office. He gave himself a fairly good grade. What was it, a B+, right? Wow, maybe he should reconsider, yes? OK, I'll admit I didn't vote for him, but when he was elected I took the high road and decided to give him 12 months and then evaluate him. That's fair, yes?

But since that year has passed, I'll do my evaluation. I'll give him a D-. Let me tell you why. First, he won't take responsibility for anything. Nothing presidential or even manly about that. Everything is still Bush's fault. OK, for the first couple of months he can say that, but still? It's time to man up.

Under his watch we've had 2 terrorist attacks on our soil. But again, not his fault. His administration won't even call them terrorists, they're just folks with "extremist viewpoints." And heaven forbid we use the "M" word. But authorities had full knowledge of both the Fort Hood extremist and the Christmas day panty-bomber.

The former was very vocal about condemnations of Jews and Christians alike. Yet he was allowed to keep his position. The panty-bomber was on a watch list after his own father alerted the CIA, yet he was allowed to fly to the US.



He bows to foreign leaders. What's up with that? Again, not presidential. Sort of pathetic actually. Behavior that could only be topped by doing something like giving the Queen of England an iPod with his speeches on it. Oh wait, he did that.

Obama's administration has shown a decided lack of leadership in general and with regards to Iran and North Korea in particular. I'm still wondering what became of all the war protesters. You would think they would be fuming. After all, one of the ways he earned their votes was the promise to bring the troops home. Yet the war has expanded.

The economy is in worse shape than ever. Bush's fault. Yet rather than take action to generate jobs, the administration's full focus has been on health care reform. The country needs economic leadership, not a legacy pursuit.

As we usher in 2010, we can only hope for brighter horizons. Just don't take any wooden nickels, folks.