We have an Iranian uprising, North Korea arming for a potential missile launch on the U.S....and Obama is nowhere to be seen.
Mike, he is sitting on the porch of the White House...drinking Malt Liquor...listening to tapes of Reverend Wright's sermons and doing the black-pride fist bump with Michelle Obama.
Now seriously, if you think he is MIA on any of this...you haven't been paying attention. He's been following the advice of Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Commentators George Will and Joe Scarborough (no fans of Obama overall) have either praised his handling of the crisis or have told his Republican critics to stuff it. Henry Kissinger has praised the way Obama is dealing with Iran. John McClaughlin, a former Bush CIA official, recently told the Heritage Foundation we need a LESS confrontational approach to Iran and said a military option should be completely off the table.
As to North Korea, the administration has been treading very carefully...just as previous administrations have...recognizing that the North Korean dictator (and the Venezuelan dictator, for that matter) are attention whores who get annoyed when other world leaders and countries take the focus off of them. More, Obama realizes any action we take will have an immediate and possibly devastation impact on South Korea and Japan.
