Captain Obvious or Captain Oblivious

"I guess we can no longer use the term 'detached' - there must be a term which digs much deeper than that..."

I will admit to one thing on this beautiful Saturday morning - I am a sucker for good or cleaver advertising. One of my favorites as of late is Captain Obvious from Hotel.com fame. I usually tune out or fast forward through commercials. Not so much when Captain Obvious is on. The man who portrays the good Captain is good, obviously good!

Even though Captain Obvious plays a goofball in his commercials, I would take him in a New York minute over what we have now as President. You see, Captain Obvious would look at the world and come up with the following conclusions or actions:

• Scrap the $3.7B "emergency" funding request for the border. There is not one red cent in there for border security. What is it then? Roughly $67,000 per illegal kid for medical, schooling and lawyer expenses. No, this is not a joke. There is provisions in the request for these kids to get "lawyered up".
• Call up the National Guard this weekend. Even Woodrow Wilson called up the Guard in 1916 when Pancho Villa came across the New Mexico border. Governor Perry is only asking for 1,000 guard members to be called up. I think he will need more, but a thousand is a good start.
• Call Mahmoud Abbas and tell him he has one hour to cease and desist ALL rocket attacks coming into Israel from the West Bank or any other place related to Palestine. There have been over 700 rockets fired by Palestine in the last four days alone. Failure to do so will result in zero dollars in foreign aid coming to into the Palestinian National Authority for the next five years. That money would go to Israel for additional national defense items.
• Using third party sources, inform Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi he has until the end of the month to vacate the premises. In other words, any territory that he has illegally taken must be returned to it's sovereign owner. In addition, any person under his control who committed murder or any other war crime, must be immediately turned over to the Hague for trial. And that includes Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Failure to do so will put the United States back into the region. This time however, the United States will show power so absolute, it will have no restraints. In other words, we have the means and the will, to carpet bomb ISIS back into the stone age.

With the world being a tinderbox, Captain Obvious would look at these items as a good start. Our current Captain Oblivious however, is getting his bike lubricated for yet another very expensive two week vacation on the Cape. With no time to visit the border mess his Administration created, he is now in total vacation mode. Campaigning, playing pool, golfing, bike riding - hey, the world is his oyster! With all that campaigning under his belt, he must be exhausted!

Last August when our worn out Captain Oblivious went to Martha's Vineyard, the flight expenses alone were $1.1M. I know - these days, with this Administration, that is chump change. The cost for food and lodging (and golf) are enormous for the zillions of people he needs to take with him. Some going with are necessary to run the government, and others are, well, freeloaders.

So America, what is your choice? Captain Obvious or Captain Oblivious? I know what my choice is. I will take the goofball. The one in the red coat that is.