Reality sets in for ‘dreamer in chief’

 

Despite his visionary rhetoric, Mr. Obama’s Oval Office address on the BP oil spill was met with disappointment from commentators, even among some of the president’s most devoted supporters. Dan Froomkin from the Huffington Post called the address “profoundly underwhelming” and Keith Olbermann commented, “It’s nice but, again, how? Where was the ‘how’ in this speech when the nation is crying out for ‘how’?”

Another flaw revealed in the speech was Mr. Obama’s attempt to use the disaster to advance his cap and trade agenda. The Trumpet pointed this out last Friday.

In his Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer said that Mr. Obama’s speech was “untethered from reality.” The president claimed that part of the problem is a dearth of safe locations to drill oil. In reality, oil companies have been run off from these locations by environmentalists who “prefer to dream green instead”—not unlike the president. Krauthammer also pointed out the troubling direction (or lack thereof) in which Mr. Obama is leading the country:

Obama is dreamer in chief: He wants to take us to this green future “even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet precisely know how we’re going to get there.” Here’s the offer: Tax carbon, spend trillions and put government in control of the energy economy—and he will take you he knows not where, by way of a road he knows not which.

At a time when the nation is looking for clear leadership, all Mr. Obama can offer is “mystery roads to unknown destinations,” Krauthammer says.

Peggy Noonan from the Wall Street Journal wrote that the president is starting to look awfully unlucky, and compared him to former President Jimmy Carter. She wrote, this is “dangerous for him because Americans get nervous when they have a snakebit president. They want presidents on whom the sun shines.”

Those blessings, though, have long since been taken away. In fact, Isaiah 3:1-3 say God has even taken away the great and mighty leaders who once ruled Israelite nations.