Barack Obama is beginning to show signs of suffering from being too young for his job. People afflicted by that tend to act too fast, to act before they understand the full significance of their actions, to fail to take into account all the factors that may affect the likely outcome of their actions, to be too sure, to fail to realize that a situation is not as simple as it appears.
John Kennedy suffered from the affliction and gave us the Bay of Pigs disaster. Bill Clinton was afflicted and produced gays-in-the-military, Hillary-care and Monica Lewinsky.
Obama is president. We can't undo the decision we all made last November 4th. We can suggest that Obama slow down. Nothing he has announced in the last two days had to be announced then. Obama could have waited 30 days, six months or a year. The announcements would have been just as effective then, perhaps more so. The actions he has taken would have been more likely to be right if taken later.
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