The True Test of Leadership

This will be the summer that defines the leadership of Barack Obama.

North Korea is at a boiling point. Playing his usual game of 'nuclear threats to gain more financial aid so he can continue to fund his weapons cache`', Kim Jong il will find there are very few extra dollars available to be used as a payoff to shut him up. With our deficit now in the multiple trillions, will Obama use our tax dollars for "Humanitarian aid" to pacify this idiot? Stay tuned...

Iran may be teetering on a revolution. With yesterdays election results called into question as valid, Ahmadinejad's opponent is calling for civil disobedience against the dictator. Will the real power in Iran, the religious zealots who really run things, step in? Will they allow the elections results to be examined? Will Israel use the opportunity of civil infighting to take out those nuke plants? Will Obama send Hillary as an envoy to "sit down with" whoever seems to be in power? Time will tell...

Will the government takeover of General Motors, the sale of Chrysler to Fiat, and the push to make us drive "earth friendly" cars, turn the auto market around? Will most people choose the security of owning a new Ford over a government owned model? If Chrysler is now owned by an Italian company, is it now off the preferred "buy American" choice list? Will the President try to micro-manage the new "Government Motors" by dictating what they produce? Will Al Gore be the new CEO? (Probably unlikely on the Gore thing, but it really wouldn't surprise me.)

Will pay-for-play, which was already tried by President George H.W. Bush but dismantled by the Democrat congress, be exposed as the smoke and mirrors it is by a continuing out of control deficit?

Government health care is coming. Will the Democrats unplug Ted Kennedy to make him a martyr for the passage of this final turnover to socialism?

Will Muslim extremists retaliate to Obama's bowing and scraping to the very Arab leaders who they feel have oppressed them and forced western ways on their cultures? Are we as safe now as we were one year ago?

This summer will show what kind of leader Barack Obama is. So far he seems to delegate more than any president in recent history by creating more "Czars" than the Romanov's. He has fallen for the pomp and pageantry. He plays to his own media and seems to be in more awe of President Obama than he was in candidate or Senator Obama. Will he be forced to make a decision that the media and his supporters DON'T like at the sake of his popularity? Only time and Obama will tell...