It’s sometimes amusing to watch my fellow Countrymen/women fall so easily into a lull as they watch and believe the news they hear.  There is all of this praising going on about how President Obama has won great victories in war, where the Republican George W. Bush, could not.  Obama has been praised for killing Osama Bin Laden, praised for the overthrow of Egypt’s Mubarrak, now the ‘killing’ of Qaddafi (even SecState Clinton made light joke of his death).  

   Obama is now trying to gain the impression he’s brought the Iraq War to an end by bringing home the troops.  

   President Bill Clinton it is often said by him and his ‘supporters’, that he was the only President to have a surplus in our Federal budget.  He gets high marks often for having a robust economy. 

   Now the reality check. First we’ll start with Clinton.  Following the turbulent 1960’s and 70’s, and the costly Vietnam war, the U.S. ended with President Carter, who history no doubt will call him the second most ineffectual President of the 20^th/21’st Centuries era.  The U.S. national economy was in shambles by Carter’s end, as was the state of our Armed Forces, barely hanging on as an effective conventional fighting force.  

   Then the ray of sunshine came in President Reagan, whom through two successful terms, was able to enact the kind of legislation and leadership the United States direly needed.  President Reagan energized the American Entrepreneurial spirit and allowed  the American private business sector to grow and thrive. In doing so, he simultaneously rebuilt our Armed Forces. Both of these actions had lasting effects. 

    Now let’s talk about surfing.  We watch surfers wait for the ‘big wave’. The waves, start way out in the ocean, far from the land on which they eventually crash upon. There are varying forces of nature that cause and effect these waves to occur. But when they do and finally reach land, one man or woman, who is surfing, will catch that wave and ride in it to sometimes win a championship, if not the admiration of their fellow surfers.

    Thus is the same cause and effect of economics and warfare.  Both take an immense amount of time and varying things to occurs before success is achieved. You don’t rebuild or build a skyscraper, bridge, road in a single year. It takes time, it takes several processes of review, bids, examinations, test, legal paperwork often just to get the idea moving forward. This process can take months to years. 

    We never just won a major conflict/war in a week.  It takes a long time to build, move, sustain, and fight to reach the point where victory is achieved. It took 8 months of solid fighting and huge help from NATO/US for Libya to take down Qaddafi. Their fight would still be going on without the help of NATO. 

    So with that bit of info for you dear reader to think about, President Reagan created a huge wave of economic boom which created some long lasting waves that Bill Clinton was able to catch and ride.  While he did do some positive moves after his first term, he did not create any kind of motion that sustained those economic waves. In our Armed Forces, he all but made the water lay flat with his social engineering experiments. 

   Then came G.W. Bush, who did under his term, get the worse of all storms in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  With a weakened economy with no sustained projected growth from the Clinton years, and an Armed Forces decimated from leftist, socialist meddling, G.W. Bush had to try and turn around a Nation and a World. He was most successful on the Armed Forces front, revitalizing the spirit and physical strength of our Military, this part affecting our economic engine as growth is once again achieved for our Armed Forces.

    But G.W. did not look into our financial situation as he should have and began spending way too much needlessly in our war efforts, and not taking care of things here in the U.S.  

     Then came Barak Obama…the self & media appointed savior of the U.S. This has proven to be the biggest disaster our Nation has seen since the Great Depression.   Obama has no idea of economics, nor does he have any real leadership skills. His true patriotism of this Nation, I do question. Obama has caught and road the waves that were created by G.W. Bush in the Military arena. If it were not for the actions of G.W., Bin Laden would still be alive today, and terrorism and extremist Islam would be thriving in ‘legitimate’   Governments in most Middle Eastern Nations.  

     There is no wave for our economy. Bush did not create the substantial action that would have kept things moving forward towards shore.  Only small 6 ft waves at best. Obama has no economic wave to ride and is unable to create anything to make one.  He has though, created a huge flat sea within our Armed Forces.  

    Strategically, Obama has put the United States in dire straits, by design or stupidity, or both, history will tell.  

    So for those who think Obama got Bin Laden, he rode the wave created by G.W. Bush.  For those who think he got Qaddafi, Obama is trying to ride a wave created by the martyr’s of the Libyan revolution and NATO.  

    In the future dear reader, take a good hard look when a President starts to claim victory on something, and see if the wave he rides was created by him or someone else.  MSNBC will be slobbering like St. Bernard's in a sauna anytime Obama claims anything, that is when I chuckle at my fellow Americans for being fooled.