Geek Soap Box

This isn't the hole your daughter asked you to plug, Mr. President.

“I, [name], do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.”

It’s a simple and elegant turn of phrase, actually, and succinctly sums up the essence of what sorts of responsibilities the leader of the free world takes on.  Minor mishaps aside, the last man to recite the oath in official circumstance was Barack Hussein Obama, the current resident of the White House.  It is his charge to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully execute all laws which lie under his jurisdiction.

So, how’s he doing on those accounts?

Let’s start with his prosecution of the war he (admittedly) inherited in Afghanistan.  This is, of course, also the war which Candidate Obama proclaimed in 2008 to be among the most important we’ve ever waged, and one that he would pursue to the fullest extent he could.  Unfortunately, if his on-the-ground commander in the theater, General Stanley McChrystal, is to be believed, the President is instead a rather petulant child, unprepared for thinking about the grim strategies of warfare and driven only to face-to-face meetings when called out on such in Rolling Stone.  Say what you might about an armed forces leader running to the adolescent, sophomoric arms of the most overrated publication of the past century, there seems little doubt that McChrystal’s sentiments and depiction of events don’t ring true; indeed, the article is a frightening recounting of the past two years that actually chills me in a way I haven’t felt since the aftermath of 9/11.  It is a sad farce that our leaders blunder and blister while our enemies embolden and steel up for the next sad round of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and the surrounding lands.

Closer to home things are not much better.  The United States’ southern border is porous and ripe to be taken advantage of by individuals looking to steal jobs, commit crimes, or worse right in our homeland.  Rather than enforce the federal laws enacted to secure the border — laws merely reinforced by recent Arizona state law — the President has seen fit to sue first and find reasons later.  In fact, as now two reputable Senators have confirmed, Obama views the border as merely a political travail, to be dealt with only when he feels like it, and after he gets what he wants in other legislative bargaining.

Sadly, these decisions serve a terrible unexpected consequence: they greatly endanger American lives, both abroad and at home.  Every additional solider that dies due to confused or half-hearted military strategy, every teenager gunned down by accident over a failed drug deal perpetrated by undocumented immigrants, every businessman or mom murdered via terrorist act, officially lies in the hands of Barack Hussein Obama.  And for this, he should be considered a prime candidate for removal from the office he clearly has neither the sophistication or morality to handle.