Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur

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After the foolishness of the Bush administration, a responsible adult needed to take the office of President and clean up the mess left behind. My condemnation of Pres. Obama is that he is not doing it more quickly.
Afghanistan is already lost -- I fear that Obama has entered the territory of Nixon, who did not want to lose a war while he was President. With the deficit and too many problems at home, we cannot afford useless wars fought to support a similarly corrupt Karzai government.
Pres. Obama does not have much time to make things right. He is turning out to be an everyday politician who does not want to make anyone unhappy. I hope he snaps out of it.

john cierra of CA 5:26PM June 28, 2010

Any one who studied Obama's rise to prominence would have seen that there are no accomplishments . The election campaign was a myth perpetratied by a supportive main stream media and eight years of destroying Bush. As the addage in history goes every people gets the government they deserve. We deserve this shallow imcompetent man child but destructive president. Finally,please stop telling me how intelligent he is...intelligences is measured by acomplishments not words. Obama has none . He is the product of one of most corrupt political machines in the nation... Chicago and Cook county.

MGDel Rossi of PA 4:59PM June 28, 2010

We believed Obama when during his campaign he said he would handle foreign
affairs in a new way. He would extend a hand of friendship to all. Before
Obama we had some very close friends such as England and Israel etc. I
think other nations respected our leaders. Who is our friend now? We have a
leader who looked totally inept during the oil spill in the gulf. He is sueing
Arizona for passing and enforcing an immigration law That is a national law
that he is not enforcing.He stopped building the fence on the southern border
which is a threat to our safety.I could go on but I won"t.

Anna Papazian of MI 1:37PM June 28, 2010

Yep, folks, it's time for "Fantasy Island" again, and again, and again. Here's a new disturbing rumor. I've read in several sources that the President is considering granting an amnesty for ALL illegal aliens currently in the USA via an Executive Order! Now, this may be right wing politics, but perhaps we should contact our ELECTED reps in Congress to ask if they know anyting about it...You'd think that the oil spill in the Gulf was enough on Obama's plate. If this rumor proves true, we'd better hope for impeachment. Remember, the Leftists in the Democratic party use doublespeak. Immigration Reform= Amnesty. Healthcare Reform= Socialized Medicine. Border Control= Token increase in Border Patrol ranks. Get my drift?

ChristmasTree of NY 1:18PM June 28, 2010

The fact has been repeated over and over but just never sinks into the liberal mentality.
The freedoms you enjoy were paid for by bad ass Americans.
If the ass kissing left of today had been in charge with Obama at the helm, we would be speaking German. We, the Americans with a backbone, will have to take up the slack as always for the Obama led "Amateur Americans". If you don't have the courage to be a true American at least sit down and shut up.

R Oviatt of MI 9:01AM June 28, 2010

President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president.
Wow. Dubya left a great foreign policy legacy? Srsly? No, really, I still totally believe that this is an impartial journalism and not republican agitprop with no credibility at all.

Scootah of CA 2:02AM June 28, 2010

Obama is simply incompetent and a reflects negatively on the USA continually. Health Care and Financial Reform demonstrate his lack of knowledge and leadership. Neither worth the paper wsted to print. No tort reform, interstate insurance competition, or War on Illegal Immigrants required to get costs under control. Where is the elimination or reform of Fannie and Freddie the causes of our financial problems?

JIM PETRILLO of NY 12:30AM June 28, 2010

I am an expat American who has lived in Australia for 17 years. Bush was not only stupid, he was a disaster for expats living in Australia and hated by the vast majority of Australians who have been America's best ally in the world. Bush couldn't even put together 2 intelligent sentences and went to war in Iraq based on a lie, WMD that did not exist which is why 90% of expat Americans in Australia voted for Obama.
America now has an articulate intelligent president who cares about the rest of the world and whom all Americans can be proud of. Let's hope America never repeats its disastrous experiment with extreme neo conservatism.

Joseph B 10:24PM June 27, 2010

Maybe so--but world sees him as much more competent than George Bush. At least Obama is brilliant.

Loraine of CA 7:12PM June 27, 2010

What a sad commentary it is on our country that this is the way we are perceived by the rest of the world because of our elected leader.
He is simply too inexperienced for this job. . .and does not realize it.

Lou of MI 5:59PM June 27, 2010