The antithesis of leadership

BHO really has changed his tune, hasn't he?

In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who “sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.’” Quite a uniter, urging Hispanics to exact political revenge on their enemies — presumably, for example, the nearly 60 percent of Americans who support the new Arizona immigration law.

This from a president who won’t even use “enemies” to describe an Iranian regime that is helping kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. This from a man who rose to prominence thunderously declaring that we were not blue states or red states, not black America or white America or LatinoAmerica — but the United States of America.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends — not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. Nice.

It is unimaginable.  Unimaginable that George W. Bush or Bill Clinton would have said something like this in public to a supporter group.  "Punish our enemies"?  This is what happens when you give a man a free ride from Punaho to the Presidency, he never needed to develop the disciplines of mind and soul that would make him worthy of the honor.  Bill Clinton had some of this problem but mostly with the fact that he had been given a free sexual ride.  George W. Bush had it in his first 40 years because he was always able to take advantage of his Father's connections to bail out his lack of discipline and maturity in his private life.  President Obama has problems because no one seems to have ever held him accountable for what he says or achieves.  In public.  Doing his day job.

It's sad for America, a tragedy for the honorable left and ultimately a disaster for Barack Obama.