‘I have a gift, Harry’

As a senator, Barack Obama once said: ”I have a gift.” So says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of the junior senator from Illinois who did not serve as senator from Illinois very long before becoming president. In a 15-page epilog to the paperback version of Reid’s book, The Good Fight
, released in May, the Nevada Democrat writes of “The Obama Era.” Reid writes of being impressed with Obama when the then-freshman delivered a speech about then-President George W. Bush’s war policy. “”That speech was phenomenal, Barack,’ I told him,” Reid writes. “And I will never forget his response. Without the barest hint of braggadocio or conceit, and with what I would describe as deep humility, he said quietly: ‘I have a gift, Harry.”‘

Those powers of persuasion seem to fade as President Obama gets further from Chicagoland. The messiah took time away from deciding how to protect our troops in Afghanistan to use his super powers over the International Olympic Committee. Once again diminishing the Office of the President of the United States. And yet again he has failed. Not very surprising. He barely had 51% of Chicago residents convinced the Games should be held there. How would this be a surprise to anyone? The President engineered this. He has spent his entire Presidency apologizing for America and preaching that no one country should lead others. No country is better than any other one. Well, why should we be deemed worthy of hosting the Games?

This great orator, with his “gift” seems to be very consistent. He fails even where he’s expected to prevail. He has enough Democrat seats in Congress to pass a health care program with no Republican votes. yet he is failing. He naively announces that he dreams of a world without nuclear weapons and the French openly mock him.

Now we find out that after this big trip to Europe for the Olympics, he meets with General McChrystal for 20 minutes. Thanks very much Mr. President.