Hey, remember when that hapless boob Bush read “My Pet Goat” to schoolkids in a dire emergency?

[Logan Darklighter]

What a dolt, eh? But at least he finished it in a few minutes. As this guy says, “We’re going on four weeks now, or more, that Barack Obama has been reading My Pet Goat.”
What the hell are we paying this man for, anyway?
The rebels in Libya are about to be slaughtered, and looking to the U.S. as the one thing that might save them. What do they get? More empty words from "The One" that Qadaffy must go. And zero action. It will get a lot worse as Qadaffy crushes the last city offering resistance. But I guarantee you won't see much of it reported on. Obama will count on his media friends to not publicize too many
forty-bodies-in-a-ditch photos, assuming Qadaffy lets any get out in the
first place.
You don't get too many lucky breaks in foreign policy. A chance to drive out a terrorist who'd killed Americans with
only a light touch to spur things along in the form of some air support for the rebels at little to no risk to American soldiers would have been PERFECT for Obama. Talk about being handed the golden moment...
... and pissing it away.

As events moved at high speed on the battlefield, the U.S. and other
nations that have called for Col. Gadhafi's ouster continued to debate
how to make that happen.

Mohammed Abdallah, a rebel commander outside Ajdabiya, said foreign
inaction meant "the hands of the international community are covered in
blood. Now Gadhafi will keep on bombing and killing us without fear of
anyone stopping him.

Britain, with backing from the U.S., France and Lebanon, submitted a
resolution to the United Nations Security Council that, if approved,
would authorize the establishment of a no-fly zone in Libya, as well set
up protected humanitarian areas, and impose new sanctions on Libyan
officials.

The Council was scheduled to resume discussion of the draft at 11
a.m. Wednesday said French ambassador Gerard Araud, but he said he was
doubtful the measure could be voted on by Wednesday.

"We will have a debate, paragraph by paragraph, as in a traditional negotiation," he said.

Senior U.S. officials said the measures proposed in the U.N.
resolution may no longer be enough to push the resurgent Col. Gadhafi
from power.

The White House chafed, however, at suggestions that inaction by the
U.S. and its allies have allowed Col. Gadhafi to regain the momentum. "We have taken dramatic action, together with our international partners, to put pressure on Moammar Gadhafi and his regime," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

This is a rare case where I think (hope?) that even the most liberal on these boards will admit that a Republican president in the same situation
would be utterly destroyed by the media for wasting time on something so
inane as NCAA brackets at a moment of global high anxiety

Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant
forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday
after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned
by a deadly tsunami.

In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said
radiation had spread from the four stricken reactors of the Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear plant along Japan’s northeastern coast. The region was
shattered by Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami
that is believed to have killed more than 10,000 people, plunged
millions into misery and pummeled the world’s third-largest economy.

Via Mike Allen’s newsletter, we see in the first line how the leader of
the free world will spend his day during this awful crisis:

President Obama is taping his NCAA picks today, and they’ll be revealed tomorrow on ESPN.

Okay, that’s not all he’s doing. “Obama will tape interviews from the
Map Room with KOAT Albuquerque, KDKA Pittsburgh and WVEC Hampton Roads
on education reform and the need to fix No Child Left Behind.”

He's managed to get his golf on during this period, I note. Priorities.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell says -- quote --

"If George
Bush reacted this way during an international catastrophe -- wholly
irrelevant radio addresses -- golf outings for the 61st time... the
left-wing media would require medically-induced sedation to keep them in
check."

Perhaps we have the opposite problem with Obama. Order a 6-pack of Red Bull and some box of 5-hour energy drinks for him to kick-start his ass! STAT!
Of course that joke falls kind of flat since it assumes that the ailment that plagues Obama is a lethargy of the body and not the mind and soul. No, the real image to take away from this whole situation is this:
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama golfed while Japan burned.