There is a lot of talk these days about "same sex marriage," "gun control," "voter ID," et al. We are not hearing a lot about jobs, GDP growth or any of those complicated foreign policy problems that could just overwhelm President Obama's time in the next couple of years. Call me cynical but I think that President Obama is engaging in a bit of distraction or keeping his base happy with a lot of the stuff that they want to hear. Can you blame President Obama?  Frankly, you can't.  He does not have a lot of things going his way. President Obama faces an incredible difficult list of problems such as Syria, Libya, North Africa and even Iraq could turn into a major headache. (Who would have believed Iraq after the hard work that President Bush & the troops did in 2007-08) And I did not mention North Korea or Afghanistan. And what about Iran?  How is the left in the US going to react when we "preemptively" bomb Iran without much international support? And I...(Read Full Post)