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Where’s the leadership? Just glancing at a few current news reports demonstrates the world is sorely lacking a coherent strategy for anything, even if it is wrong. One Middle East saga almost as impotent as claiming to want peace in the region is the mass lethargy on Iranian nukes. Case in point provided by the following report.

Iran’s government said tonight that it saw a UN-brokered deal to export much of its enriched uranium “in a favourable light”, but asked for a few days’ extension of a UN deadline to make up its mind.

Enough already with the delaying tactics. Spare us the excuse that this is how diplomacy works. The perp in this story is the only player gaining an advantage. Whether it is a bunker buster bomb from the US or a surgical strike from Israel someone must confront Iran over nukes.

From a source with a leaning so far to the left it nearly falls off its flat earth mentality comes a post titled ‘Why Journalists Shouldn’t Be Defending Fox News.’ By virtue of the sentiment displayed by the title it is obvious HuffPo continues to express a selective view of the First Amendment. It only applies to liberals. That other MSM sources have opposed the White House exclusion of Fox News from planned interviews suggests HuffPo is clueless again or thinks you are.

What does that story have to do with leadership? The White House wastes time feuding with Fox News that would be better spent governing or at least trying to learn how. Taken a step further the left has an obsession with freedom of speech. The Fairness Doctrine, Net neutrality, FCC czars and other agenda items more suited to a Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro style of government have no place in the United States.

There is certainly no shortage of examples demonstrating the lack of leadership related to the Democratic agenda to force healthcare reform on the American public.

Dems scrambling for support for public health plan

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress scrambled Friday to round up votes for allowing the government to sell health insurance in competition with private industry as they struggled to finalize a health care bill that meets President Barack Obama’s goals.

In a change in the Senate, long seen as hostile to the so-called public option, senior Democrats were considering including such a measure, officials said. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spent Friday calling and talking with wavering Democrats to test support for different versions of the plan.

Based on polling over time and accepting the fact data could be flawed assume a fifty-fifty split on the issue. Any legislative proposal facing that much disagreement has a high probability of being bad public policy regardless of which side of the issue you favor. Rather than trying to force a mistake on the citizens of this country effective leadership would take a step back, table the debate and restart the process when reasonable solutions are presented.

The problem is widespread and nearly every critical issue today is plagued with special interest agendas. The political process, now more than anytime in the past, only serves to advance the self-serving pursuits of those who can manipulate the players. Real leadership would end this charade.

Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have done nothing to produce hope and change, a new direction for America or an end to the culture of corruption. The opposition party who lost the majority from similar failures has no current standing either. Whoever develops real leadership as described earlier in this post will be the beneficiaries in the election cycles of 2010 and 2012. Can we survive long enough to witness the result of that prediction?

Stanford Matthews
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