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The Real Side | Commentary by Joe Messina
| Monday, Jul 14, 2014

joemessinamugPresident Obama is our perfect president. He makes no mistakes and no bad decisions. Just ask him. He will tell you. Bad decisions are due either to “misspeaks” or to the GOP.

This president has no business making decisions. His leadership skills are nonexistent. And before you go there (although many of you will anyway), it has nothing to do with his skin color, where he was or was not born, his sexual preference or non-preference, his love for Muslims, illegal aliens, his evolutions on same-sex relationships or any number of other things. It has everything to do with his lack of leadership skills.

I didn’t start off with the distain I have for our Commandless Chief. Much to the chagrin of some of my Republican buddies, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and give him a chance to succeed or fail.

The first sign of a good leader is that he takes responsibility for everything – good, bad or mediocre. Obama takes responsibility for all things he thinks are good. For everything else that fails, it’s someone else’s fault. The IRS corruption? Two rouge agents in Ohio were at fault. Benghazi debacle? Secretary of State’s fault, maybe. Illegal invasion? It’s the GOP’s fault.

He can never articulate what his plan is on the front end or what it was on the back end. Leaders are quick, decisive, and know what they want or need to do, and they know the best people to assign to carry it out. This president has no clue.

Among his shining accomplishments:

Releasing five major terrorist players in exchange for a soldier (traitor). He doesn’t care for our armed forces. And never being in the military, he doesn’t understand that even the rank-and-file see this exchange as a bad move. Once again, he’s made America a less safe place. The newly released terrorists will be plotting against us as soon as they are done raping and killing a few of their own.

The Veterans Administration scandal. He has shown an outstanding lack of leadership in the VA situation. Incredibly, he has known about this for years – yes, years. It was an issue for presidents before him but really started coming to a head under his watch. Apparently it wasn’t reported early enough in the media, so he knew nothing about it until he heard it with us on the news. Bull pucky. The VA shortcomings have been on the Inspector General audits since 2005, every year. Is he not reading these things? Still, he takes no responsibility for the current problem.

The NSA, Obamacare, IRS, the economy, green energy investments, border security and the Middle East. He says he knew nothing about who the NSA was spying on, even though he gets a daily briefing. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and if you like your plan, you can keep that, too. There is no scandal with the IRS. The private sector is doing fine now. Green energy companies are doing well; that’s why we are loaning money to them. The borders are more secure than they’ve been under any other administration. I am going to repair our relationships with countries in the Middle East. Have you gagged yet?

Every one of these issues could have been handled, made better, or corrected if the CEO of the country had gotten involved and assigned the right people to it.

This administration goes after CEOs of companies where employees have made mistakes and where employees have withheld information that hurt the company. They want those CEOs and other executive board members fired, jailed, fined and more. If there are no major issues, they want them to take salary cuts or smaller bonuses and give more money to the workers.

Well, shouldn’t the president, the CEO of the country, take the blame and responsibility for what his people do? Shouldn’t he be stopping bonuses and firing people rather than “asking” for resignations?

He has such a great handle on foreign affairs that he wants Israel to give up much of its territory in the name of peace. He wants the Ukraine to work out a peaceful deal with Russia. His policies have caused problems all over the Middle East. No longer can the United States be counted on to be a true ally and protector. He wants to respect the rights of illegals busting our border as human beings, but he won’t hold those same illegals to the laws of the country he swore to protect.

In all cases, it’s the previous administration’s fault; it’s the current Congress’ fault (never mentions the Senate); it’s a rogue employee; it’s the big, bad corporation; or it’s Bigfoot. He never says, “I made a wrong call or a bad decision.”

We are stuck with a leaderless chief. We are stuck with a president who has absolutely no leadership abilities whatsoever. Can he make some people feel good? Yes. But it’s as short-lived as time spent with a cheap hooker (so I’ve heard).

In the professional world, people who claim to “know everything” in their respective professions are generally considered fools by their colleagues. A true professional, and one you can trust, in any industry is one who understands he can’t know everything but does know how to pull together the people and resources to get the job done.

If you think you’re flawless and perfect – well, there’s your flaw. You can take it from there.

 

Joe Messina is host of The Real Side (TheRealSide.com), a nationally syndicated talk show that runs on AM-1220 KHTS radio and SCVTV [here]. He is also the current president of the Hart School Board. His commentary publishes Mondays.

 

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20 Comments

  1. Andrew Smith says:

    Wow. What brilliant writing from the head of our school board!

    • msc545 says:

      Yes, I am certain he struggled through whatever English classes he took, if any, and things have not improved since then. Doesn’t this paper have editors ?

    • Bill says:

      Some little AM radio station actually has this guy on the air!

  2. I don’t think an article like this belongs in a local town newspaper. It has nothing to do with the city. You are entitled to have your own opinions but keep them to yourself and out of a newspaper which is meant for reporting news of “Santa Clarita” not your own personal political beliefs. As far as the title goes, it think “The Real Side” is a terrible title for this show, it is basically “Your Side.” Being born and raised in the Santa Clarita Valley with family that still lives there, I enjoy following the news feed of SCVTV in order to hear about what is going on in “Santa Clarita” Here is reminder of the point of SCVTV from the website in the about us section “SCVTV™ is a California nonprofit public-benefit corporation dedicated to providing local television and multimedia programming and service to the Santa Clarita Valley.”

  3. Well said Joe Messina!!!! Well said! Our CEO is nothing but a puppet collecting his check, traveling and leaving excuses along the way!

  4. Well said Joe Messina!!!! Well said! Our CEO is nothing but a puppet collecting his check, traveling and leaving excuses along the way!

    • Bill says:

      Yes, of course no puppet (?) should get paid nor should a puppet travel unless in a suitcase! The logic here is genius!

  5. Paul Mahone says:

    Were you this vitriolic towards the last president?

  6. I totally agree with you Matthew very well said

  7. msc545 says:

    Why is this guy the head of our school board ? Where is the Democrat columnist that can provide some balance to what this guy writes ?

  8. Agree with Matthew 100 percent.

  9. Kaitlin says:

    I agree 5,000 % with Matthew! This has nothing to do with your own personal political opinions! Shame on you SCVTV!

    • SCVNews.com says:

      Huh? What has SCVTV got to do with Joe Messina’s personal opinion? We publish everyone’s opinion, regardless of what their opinion is — including yours, should you choose to write one.

      • Bill says:

        Seriously SCV “TV”, you lost all cred when you admitted that the valley leans repub and that’s why you have these features. That was basically the post written by you weeks ago.

        • SCVNews.com says:

          No such thing was written by us. What we said is that we run all commentary that is submitted, and if there is a “side” to an issue that is not being represented, it is only because nobody has sent one in.

  10. ,judy rich says:

    So true!!! If this had been Nixon, he would have been impeached 6 years ago!… He is purposely trying to destroy our country!

  11. This comment belongs in every newspaper! The things this president has done that go against the Constitution and that have caused our nation harm are beyond the mistakes of all previous presidents combined!!!

    • Bill says:

      OK but like the constitutional hero Sarah Palin, your opinion isn’t based in FACT.

      FACT: The unjustified Iraq war has definitely been more harmful to our country. More than anything in our lifetime.

  12. Kaitlin says:

    SCVTV should not be force feeding personal political views to the readers and residences of Santa Clarita! Your readers come here for the friendly small town vibe of Santa Clarita regardless of race, gender, religion, disability, ancestry, POLITICAL AFFILIATION! I don’t want to come here to read about how your writers hatred toward the President of the US!

    • SCVNews.com says:

      First of all, people who submit commentaries for us to run are not “our writers.” SCVTV is an entity that provides a blank canvas for the community to fill, and for various legalistic reasons, we do not have the luxury of picking and choosing what runs and what doesn’t. SCVTV has no interest whatsoever in partisan politics, especially at a national level. But if that is how the community chooses to fill the blank canvas we provide, well, that is its choice.

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