President Obama is cornered.  Why?   Because French President Hollande has declared war.  He is overwhelmingly likely to call for article five of NATO, an agreement established in 1949 that calls for action by all NATO members to come to the aid directly should a member be attacked.      Used once after 9/11.  This calls for leadership that normally comes from the USA.     The problem is Obama couldn’t lead a two car funeral procession.  He refuses to acknowledge the severity of the situation.  Late last week Obama told us Isis is being “contained.”  This after Isis shoots down a Russian plane with hundreds dead and forty three killed in Lebanon.  Over the weekend Paris is attacked by a well planned killing spree with 129 dead, 352 wounded and of those 99 seriously.   What does our National mistake say?   “It’s a set back.”   “Our strategy is working.”   A set back?    And what strategy?   Nobody knows.   Russia has now joined forces with France to go after serious Isis targets.  Our attacks have been “pin pricks” and largely restrained with our planes coming back with bombs never dropped.  Obama  orders restricted engagement more for show than results of any consequence.

So the question is why?  Why does the President do virtually nothing to lead us and the world?   Ex Congressman, now TV  political talk show host,  Joe Scarborough kept pressing his Monday morning guests for an answer.  The normal line, especially from liberals, is the President does not want to engage in another war.  Said Scarborough, referring to Paris,  “This changes everything.”    Says Republican Presidential candidate Marco Rubio, “It’s not a question of containing or diplomacy.  It’s a question of who wins, ‘we win or they win.’ as he puts it.”  Newt Gingrich says “They are going to kill us if we do nothing.”   Fortunately, NATO may be part of the answer.  And, yet, Obama and his rep’s tell us they, Isis, does not have the capacity to hit here (USA).  Sheer nonsense.  They are already here and  there is growing fear they will hit us  in as many as twelve different area’s within weeks.  Holidays are perfect timing.

Here’s the key to Obama and his thinking.   First, he is no leader.  More of a loner.  He does not counsel with even his own Democrat Party.   Let alone foreign leaders.   None trust him anymore.  Especially Israel.  His word is no good.  He only deals with his inner circle who believe what he believes.    But most of all it is his ideology at the core of it. Time and again Obama acts and says things as that of a Muslim.   HIs father was a Muslim (a Shite)….his step father Lolo Soetoro was a Muslim…he went to schools  as a youth that only taught Islam.     This quote in a speech, Set. 25, 2012, “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.”   In one of his books, Obama refers to the  Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.”    He has often shown scorn for Israel.  He deeply bows to Saudi King Abdullah…shakes hands with the Queen of England.   And who can forget one of his first acts as President was to remove the bust of Winston Churchill out of the Oval office and sent back to the British embassy.

Obama’s Pastor for twenty years, Jerimiah Wright, (who he was forced to disown during his 2008 candidacy after calling him family) says some revealing things back then and throughout Obama’s Presidency.  It was Wright who married the Obama’s, baptized his daughters and brought him into his church.  Said Wright, “Obama was steeped in Islam when I first met him.”  Said Wright, he (Wright) accepted Obama telling him he would not have to renounce his Islamic faith.  Did Wright baptize Obama?   “I wouldn’t go that far.” says Wright.  There is no record of Obama ever being baptized into Christianity.  There are some who have studied Obama believe he sides with the Shite’s (Iran) in their battle with the Sunni’s and it helps explain him virtually giving them the nuclear weapon.  The media won’t touch this issue with the proverbial ten foot poll.   Why?    Because it would be an anathema to millions of their listeners and viewers.  So many still believe in him.  It would be lunacy.  Simply unbelievable. Ignorance is still bliss.   But,  “those in the know” know what he is and believes.  But, after seven years nobody cares.  Comes to mind, ‘If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck” you know the rest.

So Obama is trapped now.  Trapped by his core beliefs and yet with the clarion call coming from France and likely NATO, he has to show American’s he is doing something besides saying he is “containing Isis.”  But, don’t look for him to lead in NATO.   He’ll appear to do so.  But, other Countries will have to step up such as France and now the Russians.  Obama has to feel the pressure even from the once adoring American media.

Let’s end this column with a note of levity.  Hillary Clinton now says she tried to enlist in the Marines at age twenty six and visited a recruiter.  I’m serious.  But, she says, unfortunately she was turned away not having “the right stuff.”   This one the tallest of her tall tales.  Hilarious Hillary.  A second coming of Private Benjamin of sorts.