President Obama is reacting to circumstances on a literally day-to-day basis. That is why there is no consistency to his positions; there is no theme to his policies; there is no follow-up on their execution. His campaign was not so much to change America as it was the embodiment of BDS. To Obama, changing America meant that Bush was wrong on everything. He just wants to undo Bush, because that is what all the screaming among his associates was about. Oh, and being President of the USA looks nifty on a resumé, too.

I don’t accord him with having a coherent vision for the nation, or the intelligence to implement one. The first step he took was closing Guantanamo Bay: that step generated such a storm of controversy that he has not dared to take a second step.

Castigating the Bush Administration while implementing its policies is how you vote “present” while pretending to be an executive. He is not yet President.

Don’t get me wrong, it won’t be easy for the winners of the 2010 & 2012 elections to govern under the staggering debt load to be added under this one president, more than his 43 predecessors. Nor will the populace be happy as they see their health care choices limited by bureaucrats. And, of course, we’ll have to go hunting for the terrorists that were released into our midst, and abroad, we’ll have to reestablish our credibility after playing the easy mark for four years.

Moreover, the electorate will be grumpy as they see Al Gore & Co jetsetting around while they themselves have the burden of bearing the increased costs of Cap & Trade. All without the benefit of a $100 million net worth gained by promoting AGW (AlGore Warming). Difficult monetary choices will confront the 2012 presidential winner, in the face of skyrocketing inflation and a world fleeing from the dollar as the primary store/unit of wealth. And with crappy car offerings, loyal American car buyers will have to deal with the guilt of driving their Toyotas and Hondas, which were purchased before the Central Government took those options away, too.

No, we should not criticize Obama. Nor his failing policies.

Democrats never stop campaigning. Remember Bill? Carter? JFK?

I propose that he does these continuations, not because he thinks that Bush was right, but because he does not have the courage to make a real, substantive, potentially life-threatening or nation-threatening decision; a decision where he would have to stand alone on, admitting “yes, this was my decision.” These policies that he is continuing were already in progress. By continuing them he can duck responsibility for their outcomes by pointing backwards to Bush when they go wrong.

When he makes a substantive policy decision such as closing Guantanamo Bay it proves controversial, with strong counter-arguments that even get picked up by the Democrats. He never expected this kind of pushback, and was caught flatfooted. All he can think to do now is the same thing that he has always done: blame someone else, no matter how ludicrous. He made a lot of policy statement during his campaign that appealed, apparently, to a majority. But he has never demonstrated the courage of his convictions; he has never stood by any of them, throwing them over at the first sign of trouble. In the MSM love-fest this is called ‘being pragmatic’; in the real world this is called ‘cowardice’.

He has not yet figured out what a President is. He has no control over the Congressional agenda and has now idea how to gain it; he is only just now discovering that there are some huge and jealous egos in that body. He is about to find out what pushback on a Judicial nomination can look like. He is discovering that an executive cannot just issue orders with any expectation that they will be carried out.

He is not yet a President.

This is a man who says it is time to move beyond partisan finger-pointing and then twenty eight times in the same speech delivers derogatory comments about President Bush and the way he kept America save for seven straight years after 9-11.

His comment that Guantanamo Bay was not a mess he created is only partially true. The comment that it was a mess because President Bush opened the prison there shows incredible naivete. The Guantanamo Bay prison is only open because we were attacked by terrorists. If anyone is to blame for it being open it is the terrorists.

The blame for the prison being considered a mess lies mainly with the leftist-media, groups such as MoveOn.org and the ACLU and the more gullible among the Democrats who publish and believed dishonest reports of widespread abuse and torture. I count President Obama as one of those who believed and spread the lies, and as such hold him at least partly responsible for what he considers the mess at Guantanamo Bay.