North Korea's Rocket Trouble

When we heard that North Korea's rocket launch failed last week our initial response was to be pleased. After all no one wants North Korea to be armed with anything that resembles a long distance weapon.

Still quickly we were advised that this might not be the good news that we are in our snickering laughing might have thought it was. We are told that we should think of North Korea like any we would about a kid in school that shows off to get attention. When one of their efforts backfires do they stop making efforts. No they, as in the proverbial movie, say " I'll show you, you will be sorry you laughed at me."

Now throw in the fact that the leader of the country is a recent replacement of his Daddy who has to convince the Generals in his country that he is a worthwhile successor and worth supporting and you have a dangerous situation.

One more thing that you might want to consider when you vote for President. Overall I think Obama has done a good job on our foreign policy, using a little more subtlety than the Bush administration. The fact is that being tough and issuing ultimatums fees good, but it does not always work. Listening to some of Romney's foreign policy pronouncements makes me think he suffers from some serious overcompensation issues. I wonder just how big his pickup truck that he drives has to be.

Poor Mitt. Poor us. Jeb Bush, Chris Christie could be a candidate. For us Democrats lets quietly admit that while Obama is better than Romney than Hillary would have been ten times the President he would have. Talk of replacing Biden with Hillary misses the point. If this were football the team would have benched the rookie long ago and gone with the veteran. It is unfortunate we have to wait until 2016 for the best candidates to be running.