Even
when he takes a sensible step with safeguards toward testing Iran’s willingness
for a nuclear stand-down, this President is pummeled on all sides, including Israel, for a reversible move toward defusing Middle East tensions.
In his
opinion-poll bunker, Obama is politically radioactive, no matter what he says
or does. Any other occupant of the White House from either party might have
been given some benefit of the doubt for testing a duplicitous Iran’s
intentions to make a deal. If they follow through, fine. If not, a return to
crushing sanctions and even military intervention is always available.
This uproar
over an Obama “peace scare” follows the notorious debut of the Affordable Care
Act, both unarguably the product of good intentions now being converted from
possible naivete into treasonous plots.
John
Kerry, out of his depth running for President nine years ago, may be beyond his
range as an elder statesman now. Selling doubtful Americans in this climate
would require the rhetorical skills of a Clinton of either gender.
In s
new book, New Yorker editor David Remnick quotes close Obama friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett: “He knows
exactly how smart he is.. . I think that he has never really been challenged
intellectually.. .He’s been
bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He
would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.”
If
that’s true, Barack Obama should be well beyond his boredom threshold now and
ready to show that being President of the United States requires more than
being the smartest person in the room.
Past
time to step up.
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