The Hype Presidency

Having underlings try to assuage the public that the Obama administration, that does not battle radical expansionist Islam and the terror that it inspires seriously, come out to show just how serious our efforts are, just after the woeful Janet Napolitano betrayed the true lack of resolve on the Sunday shows, rang hollow, so the President himself had to come out to try and make the message stick. In this administration of style over substance, Obama had to appear sufficiently dour in the midst of his Hawaii celebrations to pretend determination. If team Obama was serious, the communication would be directed at Yemen and would go something like this: "We want you to produce the bodies of those plotting mass murder against the USA which we can verify through DNA, or we will have to assume that like the Taliban in Afghanistan, you are becoming actively complicit by harboring them, and we will direct our full might against not merely them but you who are their accomplices." Yemen could not help but understand and comply or a serious leader like the last President Bush would simply crush them. But Obama will never do this.