Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
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Except for relieving Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command, I am very disappointed with President Barack Obama, as, I am sure, are many who worked for him.
He bumbled out of the gate, setting a timeline for closing Guantanamo. It may have been the right move symbolically, but he should have known or at least suspected that it would not play well politically. Then, too, his inaugural speech was drab when it should have been dramatic. The economy was in free-fall, and there was no call to action.
Obama asked for a lesser stimulus than was needed. True, many people were worried about the national debt that doubled under George W. Bush, but it had tripled during World War II, and we had not worried; we dealt with the Axis first.
Surely the president’s greatest foreign policy mistake has been his renewal and strengthening of Bush’s venture in Afghanistan. Clearly his gravest substantive and political domestic mistake was initiating health care reform. Needed, yes, but in 2011 after he earned his credibility saving jobs.
In sum, what happened to a keen, disciplined mind and the spirit of “Yes we can”?
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