America has been without a President for over 4 years. ---- President Obama is running out of pivot points. So many of his bright ideas have been busts. Or worse. Let's see, the $1 trillion jobs stimulus package that was going to produce a gazillion jobs by today. Now, Obama's jobs plan is a laugh line for late-night comics. Jay Leno: "Obama told Morehouse College graduates they have bright futures ahead. Unless they want jobs. Then, they're totally screwed." That policy reset with Russia? Obama gave up the Eastern European missile defense shield as a naive sign of good faith. Got no thanks. And now he can't even convince the Russians to get the NSA leaker out of the transit lounge at Moscow's airport. "Passenger Edward Snowden, please check at the KGB counter if you have a minute." ObamaCare? Collapsing under its own weight and fundraising scandal as Democrats run from any connection to it. When's the last time you heard even its namesake tout its value? Virtually everything the guy touches this year turns to Shinola. He went to Ohio State, urged Americans to dismiss all this silly talk about evil government out to control lives. Days later, oops, here comes the infamous ongoing series of revelations about the Internal Revenue Service harassing Obama opponents, as other government agents coincidentally knock on doors. But the nation's chief executive didn't know about it. Then, the FBI goes after phone records of journalists, long a helpful part of Obama's base. The attorney general lies to a federal judge about one reporter's criminality, then lies to Congress about knowing about it. The chief executive knew not of that too. Obama's State Department snuffs internal investigations of wrongdoing. The lethal Benghazi incident still festers. We still don't know where POTUS was, what he was doing as four Americans died with no rescue efforts. And, predictably, Obama's oft-repeated promises to hold those murderers accountable go unfulfilled, while he's not held accountable for that. Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama launched an undeclared war against Libya to prevent civilian deaths and deliver democracy to a dictatorship. Libyans got lawlessness instead. Egypt? We got rid of a friendly ruler and got the Muslim Brotherhood instead as Sharia law looms. Syria, scene of nearly 100,000 civilian deaths? The bad guy's still there, using poison gas on his own people as Obama tries to cure his international impotence with the shipment of diplomatic Viagra in the form of small-arms. Promises of new domestic gun controls to somehow protect every American child? Dished off, like the jobs bill, to Joe Biden. So, they were doomed. Remember Sequestration? The end of civilization as we know it. Obama killed White House tours to save $70G's. But somehow he found a spare $100 million for his family's summer trip around Africa this week. Because, hey, first things first. The latest attempted pivot to redirect the topic of conversation is climate change. Forty years ago the big fear was global cooling. Now it's global warming. In Obama's parallel universe, the science is beyond doubt. "The question now is whether we will have the courage to act before itâs too late. And how we answer will have a profound impact on the world that we leave behind not just to you, but to your children and to your grandchildren. As a President, as a father and as an American, Iâm here to say we need to act." Don't worry, fellow Americans. The oblivious man who flies a four-engine, 747 jumbo jet four hours for a 30-minute photo op urging fuel conservation was not addressing the nation's nearly $17 trillion national debt that ranks so much higher on average Americans' priority list. No. Between ostentatious handkerchief wipes of his sweating face in the sun (Get it? Warming), Obama emitted 6,181 words on his so-called energy strategy. It's a pipe plan like his annual budgets that go nowhere in Congress and take a long time to do it. But -- and here's the key -- it makes his enviro left-wing happy, gleeful even. One adviser admitted the strategy was a war on coal, which Obama blames for 40% of carbon emissions, although not for the electricity that runs his teleprompter. No doubt in the interests of energy conservation, Obama has been recycling speech parts from last year's disappointing campaign when he earned millions fewer votes than the first time. Remember this one? "America produced more oil than we have in 15 years." Obama skips the part about federal lands' production being down because of his regs and production only increasing on private and state lands where he can't screw it up. He also didn't have time to mention all the extra costs of his plan like, oh, say, soaring electricity rates for consumers. The Democrat warns he doesn't "have much patience" for skeptics of his plan. Apparently, he only has patience for Iranian nuclear bomb-builders. Obama also adds, "We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society." Although he's the one talking as if his nation's costly new environmental regulations alone will improve the planet without affecting America's competitive standing against the economies of other less-regulated lands. But jobs aren't really Obama's thing. Never have been. If Obama can pit more Americans against more Americans -- say, coal miners worried about disappearing jobs against indebted college students who can't find any -- that suits this Alinsky acolyte just fine. The more social turbulence and distrust the better. The less faith Americans maintain in their once-revered institutions the better for someone who wants to transform them all into something else. And still has 1,304 long days to do the deed. http://news.investors.com/politics-...-climate-change-speech-war-on-coal.htm?p=full