Democrat dithering

American boys are fighting and dying in Afghanistan while our alleged leader dithers with indecision, afraid he will make a poor political move. Ok, Obama, it is time to start at least acting like a leader. I know it is hard for a Chicago politician, who has never managed anything or led any group in his life and got to his position by looking good, making nice speeches, and being Black. Fifty-two percent of the voters picked Obama a year ago. He became commander in chief two months later when he told us he had his own "comprehensive new strategy" for Afghanistan. Since then he has found a variety of excuses for doing nothing to resolve the situation. In typical form, he blamed Bush for prior insufficient inactivity in the area. Then he needed more time to wrench his soul over his Generals' request for 40,000 more troops. Now, we cannot act until Afghanistan has their runoff election, that John Kerry convinced them to perform. Latest word is that there will be not runoff election, so what will the next excuse be? Like most Liberal Democrat bureaucrats, Kerry, the bureaucrat who said he voted for the Iraq troop funding before he voted against it, offers plenty of talk but no substance. Last week, Kerry gave the type speech you would expect a politicial slug to give. He said that Gen McChrystal's proposed counter-insurgency strategy went "too far, too fast". Then he said an American pull-out from Afghanistan could be dangerously destabilizing for the broader region. One of Obama's own advisor said Kerry could have "put his shoulder to the wheel but, "Instead, he chose to sit on the fence." The Democrats will have to do something before long, and they seem incapable of learning from the past so I expect them to allow politics to govern their actions and repeat the mistakes LBJ made in Viet Nam. They will compromise and send half the troops that the military leaders want, handcuff them with ridiculous rules of engagement, and we will lose the war exactly as we did in Nam.