After 17 months of apologizing, kow-towing, bowing and begging for credit around the world, President Obama has shown what a real failure he is.  Watching Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill shows he’s a negligent manager and a poseur who reflects poorly on America.

President Obama had an opportunity to show the world his management skills and the international team spirit that he brags about.  Yet he did not bother meeting with Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, a British based company that is also the fourth largest company in the world. 

In a spectacular failure of international cooperation, Obama (the "citizen of the world"), with his hubris and aloofness, refused the help of the 17 foreign countries that offered assistance.  The international community, which previously had believed in Obama’s commitment to “rebrand” America’s image abroad, likely realizes that Obama’s rhetoric was little more than posturing.

 Almost 54 days after the U.S.’ rude refusal of that initial offer, Obama, in a humiliating reversal, sent an appeal to other nations for the help they originally offered. What an idiot. 

Inexplicably and stupidly, Obama was awarded a Nobel Prize, before any real achievement, for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", but when he had an opportunity to act presidential and collaborative in the international arena, he screwed up again. Yeah, that was dumb.

There’s also the “unprecedented” level of arm-twisting, name-calling, finger-pointing, blaming kinds of intimidation that seem to be Obama’s preferred management style.  Epitomizing Obama’s spirit of international cooperation, Obama first sent Eric Holder to gather details for a prosecution– not exactly a move to encourage international cooperation. 

Remember the kow-towing?   Americans have seen Obama hugging Hugo Chavez and tolerating Daniel Ortega’s 50 minute anti-American rants.  Doesn’t Obama understand that these thuggish and bullying  dictators hate the American way of life?  Clearly, Obama doesn’t get it — or agrees with them.

Various, failed programs of the Obama Administration, such as the Stimulus, Obama’s faux-job-creation efforts and entitlement expansion have caused our national debt to rise to titanic proportions.  We are forced to auction hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. Treasury bonds.  Unfortunately, China holds approximately $900,000,000,000.00 of that debt.

He has done so much for this country and its people, no? And all of this in such a short time!

(Townhall – Lurita Doan)