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From:
Lee Small (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s
Column:
Joe To Treason Lobby: Time
To Draft A New Game Plan! (Also Read Michelle Malkin’s Column: All The President’s Olympic Cronies)
In his column, Guzzardi
wrote that with 2010 fast approaching, the Democrats
can’t afford to take too many more
“body blows” that will weaken their
already tentative electoral position.
President Barack Obama’s
humiliation in Denmark is another reason why he’s
unlikely to seriously advocate for comprehensive
immigration reform.
Although the
Olympics and
immigration are not in the least
connected,
Chicago’s fourth-place finish out of four cities vying
to host the global event should serve as a reminder to
Obama that he’s not
as influential as
he thinks.
The five hours Obama
wasted
in Denmark is
more fodder for his opposition. No one in Obama’s
administration will admit how much it cost taxpayers to
fly
Air Force One and
its backup plane, transport the armored presidential
limousines across the ocean and provide security for the
whirlwind trip. But it certainly was tens of millions
and all of it squandered.
According to the
New York Times,
“It provides
fodder for critics who are already using it as a
metaphor for a president who, in their view, focuses on
the wrong priorities and overestimates his capacity to
persuade the world to follow his lead.” [For
Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign,
by Peter Baker and Jeff Zeleny, New York Times,
October 2, 2009]
Obama’s problem is not
simply that he gets
bad advice but
that he listens to it. Small wrote earlier calling for the removal of Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Read his letter here. |
