First it was Sarah Palin, then William Bratton, and now Mel Martinez.  All three of these people have resigned their leadership positions in government.  I know William Bratton was not elected chief of police for Los Angeles but he did sign an agreement to serve in that capacity for a second five year period.

None of these three people gave coherent explanations for their resignation.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a rambling resignation speech that was entirely confusing and left most people asking, “What did she say?”, or words like that.

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said, “There is never a good time to leave, but there is a right time.  It is the right time.”

Florida Senator Mel Martinez said in his resignation statement, “There’s no impending reason, it’s just my desire to move on.”

In all three instances these people were successful in their positions.  Perhaps the going was getting rough.  So unlike Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who works for $1.00 a year in a very difficult job, these three decide to move on because everything was not to their liking.  My question is what were their real reasons for wanting those high profile jobs?  It certainly was not a sense of duty.

President Barack Obama continues to play the part of a great leader.  As an outstanding speaker he is an attention getter. 

He seems to believe that speeches alone will result in obtaining the legislation he wants.  The problem is that neither he nor his staff have done the in depth analysis to completely understand the consequences of the grand legislation that is part of his dreams for America.

While George W. Bush relied on others to develop the strategies for his administration, Obama has been the grand planner.  Their intentions were good but both men did not do the due diligence necessary to convince others that their objectives were worthwhile.  Obama still has plenty of time to correct this behavior.

Bush allowed others to devise the justification and plans for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.  He attempted to revise social security based upon the opinions of his advisors who did not represent majority thought.  He allowed others to manage the country’s finances.    

Obama, in his short time in office, has created a $787billon economic recovery act that has had little effect on the economy because too little of it has actually been spent.  The idea behind this bill was admirable but the implementation has been very poor.  Less than 10% of the allocated funds have actually been disbursed.

The war in Afghanistan is now being managed as the war in Iraq using a troop surge to gain control of that country.  The surge in Iraq idea was condemned by Obama but now he says is the right thing to do in Afghanistan.  Was Bush correct or is Obama wrong to use this tactic?  Efforts to dominate those nations have historically met with failure.  Why will the United States be more successful now?  Was the United States successful in Iraq?

Now we have a health plan that is called a cornerstone to Obama’s ideas for America.  Lacking in detail of costs and consequences, it is not a plan that most Americans will be willing to support.  Most people have medical insurance through their employer.  There is little or no reason for them to support this overhaul of medical care.  The changes proposed are similar to Bush’s ideas about changing Social Security in that the public is promised a better plan.

Obama’s biggest problem is that he has not involved himself in the legislation that he has proposed.  He asked Congress write legislation with only limited input from his staff.  Congress wrote laws that were in their best interest.  That is the reason that so little of the stimulus money has been spent.  That money is primarily going to projects that senators and representatives want, not shovel ready projects.  That is the reason health care legislation will not provide the needed reform.  Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other large health care providers donate millions to their representatives.  They have the influence.

Unfortunately Barack Obama is too naive to understand the impact of outside forces.  The truth is he is in over his head.

In the United States we have the right to call people names.  That includes calling the president of the United States a name.  Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist.  He went on to say Obama has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

The president’s mother was white.  His white grandparents from Kansas were primary in his upbringing.  They were the people who gave him the direction that ultimately helped him to excel in college.  It’s not likely that he would hate white people.

I am so very white but I did not know there is a white culture in America.  Is a white culture a religious thing or is it an ancestral thing?  My grandparents came from Eastern Europe and I was born in Canada.  What culture would that be?

Not to worry, the item titled “Fox’s Glenn Beck: President Obama is a racist” was under the heading Entertainment News.  Glenn Beck will say almost anything to get attention.  Beck’s hatred for white people or the white culture remark sounds racist to me.  We do protect freedom of speech in America.