By James F. Buckley

In football, a team’s performance in the red zone, inside the 20 yard line of an opponent, often determines a victory or defeat. A touchdown is preferred, but a field goal will do. To walk away empty is a sign of things to come when the clock eventually says it’s done.

Applied to politics, Obama is evolving into the ultimate choke. When pressed on issues that represent a make or break, defined as a simple yes or no, Obama punts the proverbial ball. There is no crying in baseball, and there’s no punting in red zones.

Last evening front and center with one of the most blatantly racist organizations on earth (Congressional Black Caucus), Obama took the stage and didn’t come close to stepping up. On the worn, torn subject of race, he talked the same old symptoms but not disease.

The symptoms; dropouts, poverty, crime. You know them all by now and of course math cannot lie. With a captured audience Obama could have declared “Ya’ll defend the reasons why!” That’s flea flicker material; using guts, not politics, to call a breathtaking play.

The disease is the disintegration in the African American populous’ nuclear family structure and its’ absolute rejection to the protestant white work ethic that has made this country great. Obama had Team America in the red zone again, and again we left it with no points.

Obama has been called the ultimate player, and this is just one the reasons why. When faced with moral play-calling, he calls the plays of please-just-like-me, never ones that are gutsy, often right. It’s a recipe for abject failure for this man and the nation he represents.

– Jim Buckley