Barack Obama: Dreamer-in-Chief

Charles Krauthammer hits the nail on the head when analyzing Barack Obama's address on the oil spill. Bottom line: what he said was so fanciful, even progressives are not buyin it.

I would add that the speech is pushing me further away from my claim that the biggest problem with Obama--outside of our ideological differences--is his inexperience. Now I am thinking it is his grandiose vision blinding him to reality that is the big problem.

We have ha visionary types in high office before. Woodrow Wilson destroyed his health promoting the League of Nations as a guarantee of world peace. I would say Newt Gingrich even more recently has flirted with impractical visions of the future right now. The man once introduced a bill to pave the way for lunar colonies to apply for statehood.

But Wilson and Gingrich had some basis for their ideas. The League of Nations could, theoretically, resolve many conflicts without bloodshed. We had been to the moon. Without finding green cheese or a really cool monolith, we saw no real reason to go back.

The difference with Obama is he has no clue how to reach his goals. Worse yet, he does not seem to know it. Government cannot just create a new, clean source of energy even though Obama thinks it should be able to if we would only throw ten of billions of dollars towards the endeavor.

But this is a man who thought his election would turn the ocean tides and heal the planet--with a straight ace, no less.

You should read Krauthammer’s analysis of obama’s divorce from eality. It boils down to Obama being one of those progressives who has no idea that utopia is impossible to achieve because he has never had to work towardsa pragmatic goal with all the resistance the real world has to offer. Hence, cleaning the waters off the Gulf of Mexico is boring and beneath him. Envisioning a new, greater green economy without any notion of how itcan be done, if itcan be done. That is what men like him are put here for.