Obama, the feckless tyrant
President Obama is such a weak strongman. Whats more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant.
That, at any rate, is Republicans critique of him. With Russias invasion of Ukraine, Obamas critics pivoted seamlessly from complaining about his overreach to fretting that he is being too cautious. Call it Operation Oxymoron.
Last Wednesday, I sat in a House hearing and listened to Republicans describe Obama exercising unparalleled use of executive power and operating an uber-presidency. They accused him of acting like a king and a monarch, of making the United States like a dictatorship or a totalitarian government by exercising imperial and magisterial power.
But after events in Ukraine, this very tyrant was said to be so weak that its shocking.
We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) proclaimed Sunday on CNN.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told the annual gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday that Obama has a feckless foreign policy where nobody believes in Americas strength anymore.
Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) told Bloomberg News that were projecting weakness. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) told CNN that recent events make the administration look weak. And Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told Fox News that the administration is playing marbles and that the Russians are running circles around us.
More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-the-feckless-tyrant/2014/03/03/73470bdc-a320-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html
Found on the Obama Diary