Or lack thereof. The TV news is calling for "presidential leadership" on the matter of ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State. By which they mean Obama coming on TV and explaining to the voters why we need to kick some ass in ISIS.
The newsies have a point. The voters are anti war, and won't change their minds without the president expressing a need and a reason for going back to Iraq. Until he does, the electorate isn't going to go along.
And, I think it is safe to predict that Obama is never going to call for military action in Iraq. Neither is the Congress. The Republicans and Democrats in Congress are having so much fun trashing each other, they couldn't get behind a single resolution on Iraq or on anything else for that matter.
Even worse, there is some doubt in my mind that the voters would follow Obama's leadership. His standing in the polls is abysmal. He has given so many speeches full of motherhood and apple pie, but totally lacking in substance, that few people bother to listen to him anymore. His constant output of Pablum is boring.
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