...the press gave the great American republic an untried,
unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent
figure as President. Under Obama, America's foreign policies are a mixture
of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided;
the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is
in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy.
And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.
Read the whole article
<http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/17/rex-murphy-the-medias-love-a
ffair-with-a-disastrous-president/> - I dare you.

