Obama zigged when should have zagged

History will record that Campaigner-in-Chief Barack Obama was president when the credit rating of the wealthiest nation in the world was reduced for the first time.

The president needs to see if Harvard’s Law School will find him a tenure-tracked position where leadership is unnecessary; it’s above his paygrade. This was the president that “zigged when he should have zagged.”

At the outset, when he should have tackled immigration reform and border control as promised to the Latino voters who put him into office, he spun his wheels on ObamaCare. To this day, few members of Congress even know what his health plan is, not to mention the public.

The energy he devoted to Bush-bashing for all our ills could have been focused upon job-creation. Rather than branding as “criminals” Americans who generate wealth resulting from the capitalism which runs this country and singling them out for “special treatment” in our tax structure, he could have developed his own plan much earlier for solving the debt-ceiling debacle — our nation’s most recent shameful display of partisan playground bickering.

At a time when Americans are hanging on by their fingernails to keep their homes and jobs, note how our president’s liberal compassion for the poor was displayed by sending his wife and daughters on African safaris, when he had the chance to model financial responsibility. As claimed, this president changed how things are done in Washington: He expanded government, spent money we don’t have, sent more troops over to Afghanistan and gave Standard & Poor’s the data it needed to lower our credit rating.

It’s now time for the country to zig when it should have zagged and vote out Obama-Reid-Pelosi and vote in a new trinity of responsible, rational persons who will conserve, not destroy, this country’s core values.

Paul O. Bischoff

Wheaton