Obama Filled with

Bad Choices

by D. J. Herda

I guess now that the Super Bowl is long since passed and Barack Obama's lavish praise for full-time dog killer and part-time quarterback Michael Vick’s comeback following what some people feel was an all-too-short incarceration, it's time to put football aside and start thinking about other things.  Like how Obama acts less like Mr. President and more like Mr. Ego-dent.

For what other than ego would drive someone to say publicly that he has lived up to every one of his campaign promises (or tried to) when he has lived up to virtually none of them…except in his own mind.

And what other than ego would prompt someone to say that he has not raised taxes on anyone outside of the rich since taking office when he has raised taxes on everyone (including the underemployed and unemployed)…except in his own mind.

And what other than ego would prompt someone to say that Obamacare is not an abject failure and that it won't raise health-care prices on anyone (when it has already sent costs skyrocketing)…except in his own mind.

And what other than ego would embolden someone to say that the country must get serious about cutting government spending after increasing the national deficit with frivolous and devastating nanny-state programs that threaten to destroy America from within…except in his own mind.

And what other than ego would allow someone to say he was way ahead of the unfolding debacles in Egypt, Iran, and throughout the Middle East when he doesn't yet have a meaningful policy in place…except in his own mind.

And what other than ego would make someone say publicly that he's not playing "chicken" by failing to make the hard decisions about major entitlement cuts and forcing the opposition to do just that...except in his own mind.

What other than ego?  It's called sociopathy.

It's true.  The next time you watch the president lie with impunity about meeting all of his campaign promises or not having congratulated Michael Vick for rehabilitating his life (as if Vick had any choice) or not raising taxes on every single American or not shredding our existing health-care system or not endangering the economy of what was once the greatest nation on earth or not placing the entire world order in jeopardy through weak-willed, hazardous, knee-jerk enactment of foreign policy or not being serious about cutting the budget, think about what drives a person to say such things with clear eyes, clear voice, and muddied thinking.  Ask yourself what makes him come across so sincerely.

It's not sincerity.  Nowhere near.  It's sociopathy.  It's suspending the rules of reason and logic and living the "reality" present only in one's own mind. 

And that's something the president does have in common with dog-slayer Michael Vick.  He, like Vick, is a sociopath, which explains a lot.

Worse yet for the president, everybody around him is beginning to catch on.

Perhaps a little too late.

And I…am D. J. Herda.

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D. J. Herda is President of the American Society of Authors and Writers (http://amsaw.org), an organization made up of authors, writers, editors, publishers, agents, directors, producers, and other media professionals who rely upon the printed word in the creation of quality literature and entertainment.  He is a member of the Author's Guild, a former member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and a former member of the National Press Club.  He has published more than 80 books and several hundred thousand articles, short stories, columns, interviews, plays, and scripts.
 

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