Russia and Georgia are in open warfare. Putin and Bush are in the same country and have been talking to one another. Doesn't this require a wee bit more attention than the President is giving? I mean, shouldn't he be speaking with advisers and foreign policy/international law experts round the clock at this moment?
The President of the United States should be under a tremendous amount of pressure just to try to fully understand the complexity of all the problems the United States faces at this moment.
Two wars in notoriously difficult to tame countries (Iraq, Afghanistan).
An economic recession.
An energy crisis.
A housing crisis.
A weakening of the middle class.
All of those would be enough to keep me up nights...not even to solve the problem necessarily. First just to understand precisely how they occurred then to move on to a non-stop body sacrificing binge of meetings and panels and anything to help solve those problems.
Now Bush has already made his ceremonial appearance at the Games. It's a horrible coincidence that Russia and Georgia are at war but I'm personally finding this another 9/11 pet goat moment for the President. I don't want him looking at the women's volleyball players tattoos. I want him in the war room preventing WWIII.
This skirmish right here could literally ignite into a wider war and the President talks to Putin for a few minutes and goes about his daily business.
People will say he's Head of State and has a duty blah blah blah but his first duty is to protect us. I don't feel very safe with this guy in charge.