Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy: The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falsehood.

That pretty much sums it up for me when it comes to Obama.

President Bush wrote letters to each and every family who lost a loved one in war during his two terms. He met with most of them. He took trips to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit wounded soldiers. He did not get pictures taken of this. When the war started he stopped playing golf because the thought it sent a negative message to the troops and he did not want them to think he was not showing respect. The only vacation he took was to his ranch in Texas. He also showed respect to Cindy Sheehan and the war protesters, not calling them un-American or un-partriotic, but telling them they had the right to protest and he respected that.

President Bush also made many decisions that were not politically popular with his party but made the decisions instead based on what was the right thing for the country. With Harry Reid saying "The war is lost" and Nancy Pelosi screeching about cutting the defense spending bill President Bush pushed ahead and launched a surge to win the war in Iraq....against all the naysayers in Washington who were more interested in scoring political points than doing the right thing.

So here we are. Obama is delaying making a decision in Afghanistan because he wants to campaign and get the NJ govenor re-elected first. He goes to Dover Delaware and gets a photo-op of him standing saluting while a casket is taken off a plane. The news media didn't report that most families REFUSED and did not allow Obama to take a photo when their family member was moved from the plane. Only one family agreed to the photo op.

He did that in Germany during his campaign. He was going to a military base to visit wounded at the hospital but when he found out he could not get pictures taken he went to the gym instead.

He apparently plays golf three times a week. He has date night with his wife once a week. He has a cocktail party every Wednesday night. He has movie night once a week.

I think this president is going to redefine the word hypocrisy.