Cowboy Confessional

Cattle are dumb. I know this first hand having corralled more than a few in my youth. Bovine spook easily, and with little effort you can get a cow to run directly into the slaughterhouse.

Barack Obama may be part black, part white, and part cow.

While in Israel this week, President Bush was pitching to an audience of folk who have experienced terrorism firsthand, daily, for the last 50 years or so. Given the unfortunate history of Jews being sent to abattoirs at Auschwitz and other sunless spots, Bush decided to mention the failed foreign policy decisions that led to that human butchery.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along … We have an obligation, to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Without accusing anyone in particular, Bush made a statement of policy — a policy that preceded him by three other Presidents.

Obama took it personality and reacted with a level of youthful impetuousness normally reserved for a prom night grope.

Obama reacted from the gut, based on what he (and the rest of the country) know to be his major failings: a lack of foreign policy experience and immature decision skills. In a time where terrorists are willing to fly hijacked airplanes into skyscrapers, his paired weaknesses could cause voters to have second thoughts.

His reaction to Bush’s speech shows why.

If Obama had let the sleeping dog sleep, Bush’s comment might not have made the evening news. Obama instead reacted like a schoolyard boy being taunted about his ugly appearance (with those Dumbo-sized ears, I’m sure he had his share of childhood taunting). He protested that Bush was picking on him, and by proxy, all Democrats.

I invite you to reread Bush’s words. He could have be talking about pacifist leaders in Italy. He could have been talking about the soft-on-terrorism government in Spain. He could have been addressing Neville Chamberlain.

But Obama took it personally and showed himself to be an absolute knee biter in the process.

Take what you will about the wisdom (or lack thereof) of wasting breath talking to terrorists or state sponsors thereof. The lesson here is that on serious matters with geopolitical dynamics, Obama reacted. He didn’t pause to think. He didn’t evaluate his alternatives. He didn’t show maturity.

That, my friends is reason enough to vote against him.

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