President Obama gave one of his typical weak, limp wristed speeches last night. There were things suggestive of action, without action. When Jimmy Carter gave his infamous energy speech in July of 1979 he declared that the United States would never again import more oil from the mideast or anywhere than it did in 1977. He also rolled out legeslation that was acted on by congress. The President set a goal of twenty percent solar power by the year 2000 and made some concrete moves in that direction including putting solar pannels on the White House, that Ronald Reagan had removed when he became president. Franklin Roosevelt got tough with the big corporations in 1936 and overtly stated "We are after their power, and that's what they are afraid of". Harry Truman was no woos either. President Kennedy in spring of 1962 got US Steel and other steel companies to roll back their planned price increases. What all these presidents had was a mission and a goal that they worked tword achieving. President Obama said something about a carbon tax or cap & trade last night but it was all murky and indistinct. Many people say a President should use any crisis that comes along to pass his political agenda, like President Bush did with the Patriot Act. But this President can't get anything right because he's pretending to be bi-partisan when nobody else in congress is, especially the leaders of the Republican Party. I can't believe the President is really that stupid. He couldn't have passed all those graduate courses if he didn't have intelligence. And yet he is willfully abandoning the people in his own party who voted him into power. He doesn't seem to care whether he has their vote in the next election or not. The President said he'd rather be a one term president if it meant sticking to his convictions. Yet if he doesn't get off the dime and move the country forward he most surely be a one term President who was noted for NOT getting anything done but he could give a good speech- - well a respectable C minus anyhow. The president never talked about this climate and energy bill that got passed in the House but is stuck in the Senate. Apparently the President has no preference whether the bill is passed or not. The President really isn't forthcoming in this banking bill and is allowing it to be gutted and watered down. This is the president's middle name, "watered down". He claims to have been on top of this oil leak crisis from day one but nobody believes him. I don't believe him. The President never addressed the criminality of certain British Petroleum officials. He should have been taking names and kicking ass. These oil executives should be perp walked before the media on their way to a long jail term. But of course they aren't. As for that twenty billion- - that isn't immediate payment but over several years and that figure they say is only a fraction of the total damage inflicted. Last night would have been a good time for an all out assault of the priveleges big international corporations get in tax and liability laws, as opposed to anyone else. People like Thom Hartman say "The President needs to be pushed to do the right thing". I honistly don't believe the President is interested in doing the "right thing" in any of his business dealings, with all of the Bush cronies still in the federal government. People want a leader and not someone who can fake people like Stephanie Miller and Randy Rhodes into thinking he's taking action when he really isn't. The Republicans aren't going to let up on this President merely because the President says he wants to be Bi-partisan. Again this president is not stupid. So if he appears to be acting "stupidly" there is obviously another modas opperandi at work in his administration. I'm tired of hearing people on the radio say "You can't blame the president for anything because of all the Bush holdovers in the government." Others say "The president Tried to close Guantanamo but found out he couldn't". The president Tried to end Don't Ask Don't Tell, but found that he couldn't. The President tried to have a transparent administration. The President tried to qualify for matching funds during the campaign. How many of these "tried and failed" routines do we have to endure? If he would do a thorough spring cleaning of his administration and appoint all new people, a lot of us to the center-left would feel a whole lot better about this President.