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Obama: The First Year » Publications » Family Security Matters: "It is now a full year since a young freshman Senator took the Presidential Oath of Office only a few hundred yards from my office. It is fitting that the year ended with the resounding repudiation of this President by Massachusetts. I had hoped that my trepidations about an Obama presidency would not be realized. But when the alarm bells started ringing, commentators, for example, such as Charles Krauthammer, Fouad Ajami, Barry Rubin, Claudia Rosett (and for a good chuckle, Mark Steyn), highlighted Obama’s shortcomings both at home and abroad with great eloquence and perception. So my own reflections are based not only on a half-century of political involvement, but with an emphasis on Israel’s future security.

What we have seen so far is an overly ambitious but woefully inexperienced President unwilling to face reality in dealing with the rest of the world, and unable to distinguish clearly between friends and foes. His first year at the helm of state fits well with Churchill’s definition of a second marriage: “a triumph of hope over experience.” And in his approach toward Islamist terrorism, a triumph of political correctness over resolute action."