The "Distraction" Distraction

I took a second look when I saw the following headline: "Pirates pose annoying distraction for Obama."

The taking of an American hostage and an attack on an American-flagged freighter is certainly an "annoying" distraction and not a foreign policy crisis.

How do I know this?

Yesterday, when he was discussing the international aspects of this incident with his Secretary of State, they met not in the Oval Office but rather a at a picnic table in the backyard. (You right wingers go right on and say, "Well, if Bush did this..." We all know how this would end.)

If this were a crisis, BHO would have the sense to convene a meeting with his foreign policy team in the Oval Office. (He does have a top notch national security advisor, after all, doesn't he?)

In fact, these distractions seem to be the norm. At least the way big media sees it. And the distractions presumably prevent Team Obama from implementing the hope and change that this country needs.

Sure.

A distraction is nothing more then having Team Obama caught flat footed -- when it's the blowback of a Chicago political scandal or a launch of a North Korean missile.

Why? Because this administration is ill-equipped to handle anything more than a hope that our adversaries won't hate us and that our allies will really like us. Anything else prompts uncertainty and confusion. Therefore it has to be downplayed as a "distraction." You can screw up a crisis, you can ignore a distraction.

We better get used to it.

John Lennon was right when he said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

Team Obama should be busy planning for further "distractions."