Saturday, May 2, 2015

Baltimore Is A Job For Super-President — Where Is He?

Leadership: Riots rage 40 miles from the White House, in a city 15 minutes away on Marine One. The one thing that President Obama is good at is speaking to a crowd. So where has he been?
You don't lead from the Rose Garden. Jimmy Carter painfully discovered that when he chose to make himself a fellow Iran hostage, locking himself in the White House as 52 Americans suffered for 444 days.
Ronald Reagan proved it when he stood before the Brandenburg Gate and demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" It wouldn't have worked too well saying it 4,000 miles away in the East Room.
Consider how much traveling this president does. Last month, Judicial Watch announced its findings that the first family's annual Hawaiian Christmas trips over the past three years have cost taxpayers $15.5 million just for the travel costs.
But a visit to burning Baltimore is apparently too much to ask.
Answering a question at a joint press conference in the Rose Garden with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama did say Baltimore's arsonists and looters "need to be treated as criminals." But he also suggested too much is being made of the criminal activity:
"One burning building will be looped on television over and over and over again, and the thousands of demonstrators who did it the right way I think have been lost in the discussion."
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Golfing in Virginia, that's where!