(Lack of) Leadership During a Crisis

During the 'Recovery Summer' of 2010, President Obama took his 6th vacation as President in less then 2 years.

Israeli Prime Minister requests an audience with President Obama amid escalation in the Middle East. Obama declines and instead goes on David Letterman.

He then passed on an opportunity to meet with world leaders to meet instead with the ladies of the View.

When our Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Ty Woods, and Glen Doherty were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, the President took the following day to head to Las Vegas for a fundraiser.

As the border crisis broke out, the President headed west. Not to the border, but to a Colorado bar to play pool and drink with the Governor.

Russia invades the Ukraine while the President declares it happy hour.

When the bombs dropped in Iraq, the President headed off in Marine-One. Not to the Pentagon, but to the golf course for 18 holes of golf.

As Ferguson, MO struggled with another night of unrest, the President's press conference on the matter was delivered, not from the Rose Garden, but from a makeshift location near his exclusive Martha's Vineyard vacation home.

UPDATE: Was Obama playing golf during the funeral of a Major General?

Crisis that face the American people don't have access to your day planner. His lack of experience managing, administrating, and leading is only all too highlighted when people look to the person they elected to give them direction, and a proverbial 'Gone Fishing' sign is in the place where we would expect to find a mature, tempered force that would reassure us.

Please, put down the beer and get off the golf course Mr. President. Are you that blind to how awful this looks? Is your golf game that important? We don't have the luxury of leaving for the weekend when our businesses are struggling. We don't have the luxury of ignoring the feelings of those that rely on us for leadership when we are needed most. 

It’s understandable that Obama would want to get away from it all, but for a president struggling to build support for his foreign policy, vacationing during a crisis is negligent and a display of disinterest.

Step up and lead, or step aside and let someone else. America deserves better.