Barack Obama swept into the White House on a wave of intensepopularity and expectancy but he has since shown few of thequalities demanded of him as the man who replaced a presidentwho left leaving the US and the world in a state of deep andutter political and economic confusion.Obama has so far done absolutely nothing to untangle the messin West Asia. Gaza militants are still using southern Israelfor target practice and Israel is making noises about the needto attack Iran.Obama has run right into a concrete wall over his promise onGuantanamo. He faces the prospect of breaking his electionpromise of closing down the camp. There is every likelihoodthat Guantanamo would be still be operating with business asusual after Obama is no more the occupant in the White House.Obama is guilty of locking his gaze at somewhere else when itcomes to the matter of defusing tensions at the Korean border.Apart from sending Clinton to make some belligerent noises ina visit to East Asia, Obama has failed to show that he has theguts and the ideas and vision to bring peace and reconciliationto the Korean peninsula.Obama has moved forward very little in battling the financialand economic woes facing the world's largest economy. The US hasfound itself in the strange situation of having to plead withChina to continue buying its Treasury bills. The US governmentdebt is now surging past the 11 trillion dollar mark. Obamaseems unaware that his country is laying the tracks for onealmighty economic train crash at some point in the future.Obama has shown zero leadership qualities in the current fluepidemic problem now sweeping around the world. More and morecountries are reporting infections as a result of travel outof the United States by people who carried the A H1N1 virus.Obama has shown that he has little to differentiate betweenhimself and other Western leaders on the matter of upholdingprinciples. Western leaders routinely blow hot and cold ona myriad of issues depending on the time and season and Obamais simply no different. What happened to the word 'Change' ?Colombo was finally able to close an important chapter in theglobal history of fighting terror but Barack Obama has offeredabsolutely no reward for the historic achievement. No aid, nocongratulations. What happened to the 'its either us or them'ultimatum by the US under Bush's administration ? Differentseason, eh ?Obama has failed to show that he has the authority when itcomes to the matter of keeping the military on a proper leash.The US military has a long habit of being semi-independentin its conduct and the present administration is no differentas far as the US military is concerned. In fact, there issuspicion that Obama is mightily afraid of the Pentagon.Obama has done next to nothing to combat global warming. Heis instead more interested in keeping companies like GM and
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