Obama would never be good at Texas Hold em.

The world is agog with Texas Hold em, the poker of champions game now seen throughout the world thanks to the Internet and television. Literally tens of millions play online on any given month. Well folks, it looks like our President Obama needs to take a few lessons from the pros as he is sadly lacking in poker skills. Can you imagine starting a hand out by telling everyone at the table that you have a weak hand but will try to play it the best he can. That’s exactly what he has done over the past several months as he represents this country to other leaders of the world. He, and now all of his subordinates, seem to start all meetings or discussions with an apology for how the United States has treated them over the past decades. Most recently of course is the White House dinner for Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, where Obama got thing started with an apology for the misguided immigration laws enacted by Arizona. Well in “hold em”, a weak bet demonstrates a weakness in holdings and the opponents usually come out blazing with a raise that runs you off with your tail between your legs. In Obama politics it has the same effect. Every leader of every country now feels entitled to rag about any and everything we do or have done in the past.

Mexican President Calderón stood before Congress this past Thursday, the 20th of May, sharply criticizing Arizona’s “tough new immigration law”. He then went on to chastise the United States for it’s refusal to ban assault weapons, which he claims are being used by the drug cartels in their violent shootouts in Mexico.

The article in the Arizona Daily Star quotes him as saying "I strongly disagree with the recently adopted law in Arizona," and continues with it being "a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement." You also should note that the article points out that most Democrats stood and cheered as these remarks were uttered. Sorry about singling out the Democrats for cheering but it appears that most Republicans were absent; probably because they had been provided with a draft of the speech beforehand.

As to the charges about the assault weapons coming from here I can only offer some research for you to make up your own minds. A February article in The New Yorker details the antics of wealthy Syrian arms merchant Monzer al-Kassar, who on one sunny morning in 2007, met with two Guatemalans, named Carlos and Luis, who arrived at his front gate. Kassar was expecting them. He had agreed to sell them several million dollars’ worth of weapons for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—the South American narco-insurgent organization known as the FARC, which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist group. One only has to look online to find literally hundreds of arms dealers yet Calderon has the audacity to blame us for the problem. President Calderón  and Obama appear to be “two birds of a feather that flock together” as they both seem bent on blaming others for their inability to solve problems.

So Mr. Obama, President sir, if it is not too late, I suggest that you pick up a couple of books on Texas Hold em and take a few tips from those guys.