A Hand Reaches Out

The following is in response to a question posed by John Batchelor on his website after the U. S. president's visit to Russia. Batchelor asks, "Am I ringing an alarm bell?"

Yes, you are, JB - ringing it loud and clear! I'm sure the Russians were quite flabbergasted by what they saw - something like seeing a three-year old driving a bus on the expressway. The Russians haven't had time to digest it yet. They haven't even had time to formulate a response. Obama is a simpleton; unlike Gandhi, who spoke and lived simply but was solidly grounded in reality - and hard as steel.

Nothing real about Obama; nothing there to hang your hat on, even. Just the (as of yet) unformed mind mass of an ideologue permanently disabled by narcissism. God help us when they finally do figure it out; that what once was a great nation is essentially leaderless and looking for a home anywhere but in America. The unmitigated shame of it; the insult to accepted protocol. Is a touch of patriotism really too much to expect?

A hand reaches out and grasps... nothing.