Poll: Only 17% see Obama as strong and decisive military leader

Obarfo would make a great cat hearder.

Poll: Only 17% see Obama as strong and decisive military leader Scotty Starnes | March 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM | Tags: commander in chief, Congress, Gadhafi, Libya, military leader, Moammar Gadhafi, President Obama | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4Qx

 

Now why would the majority of Americans see the backpeddler-in-chief as a weak military leader?

MSNBC reports (shockingly):

WASHINGTON — Only 17 percent of Americans see President Barack Obama as a strong and decisive military leader, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken after the United States and its allies began bombing Libya.

Nearly half of those polled view Obama as a cautious and consultative commander-in-chief and more than a third see him as indecisive in military matters.

Maybe vacationing in Latin America as you send our military to bomb Libya has something to do with the perception? Maybe not wanting the US to be the leader in this 'kinetic action' has something to do with the majority of Americans seeing Obama as a wimp (or watching him throw a baseball).

Obama was widely criticized in 2009 for his months-long consultations with senior aides and military chiefs on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Critics called it dithering, but he said such a big decision required careful deliberation. He eventually dispatched 30,000 more troops.

And the fact that he had only talked to Gen. McChrystal once in his first 8 months in office has a lot to do with the perception.

But Obama is facing mounting discontent among opposition Republicans and from within his own Democratic Party over the fuzzy aims of the U.S.-led mission in Libya and the lack of a clearly spelled-out exit strategy for U.S. forces.

I guess that letter he wrote to inform the entire Congress that he had authorized military actions against Libya, without Congressional Authority, pissed off both parties.

If the Libya mission becomes a foreign policy mess, mixed with perceptions Obama is a weak military leader, it could spell trouble for him in the 2012 presidential election.

It's already a mess. Obama went around Congress and listened to the U.N. He used military action without congressional approval and he has flip-flopped on what the goals are in Libya. On Monday, Obama wanted Gadhafi gone. On Tuesday, Obama said he could stay if things changed.

America doesn't need a dithering, feckless leader running our military.

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