Obama: I take full responsibility, but...

So, President Obama holds his first news conference since July to essentially address the Gulf oil disaster. He is visiting Louisiana today...nearly six weeks after the explosion. He holds the conference just a couple days after James Carville rips him for inaction.

Obama said he takes full responsibility for what is going on there, but that was at the end of the news conference, after he had already blamed BP, and of course the previous administration for collaborating with the oil companies.

So, only after weeks of staying mum, Obama finally shows up. Instead of getting out front on the issue, he stayed detached, as he always does. When he was running for President, voters admired his cool while the financial crisis unfolded, and that is what got him elected. Now, this cool is generally viewed as detachment from the concerns of every day Americans. Instead of paying attention to the voters about their job concerns and keeping Americans safe, Obama and his administration have been more concerned with ramming through a new healthcare entitlement, and ignoring the threat that Islamic jihadists continue to present.

So, let's see where we are at since Obama took office... unemployment is 9.9%, still way above where he said it would be if only Congress would pass the stimulus. We've had three terrorist attacks on U.S. soil...two failures and one success in Ft. Hood. Iran is still enriching uranium and has not suffered any new sanctions. Our national debt is rising at an annual rate more than double the worst year of the Bush administration. We have the worst oil spill in U.S. history. And we still have extreme partisanship in Washington, after Obama claimed he would be a uniter during the election.

Yeah, he has had a lot on his plate. But, he has seemed more concerned with developing a "new international order" as he said in his recent West Point speech, and pushing America toward a European style social state. Now that Europe is imploding, we all know we don't want that. Eighteen months after taking office, we still hear about the "problems we inherited." It's painfully obvious to me that this guy is no leader.