I’ve played a lot of baseball in my day and quickly learned the importance of keeping my eye on the ball; metaphorically, later in life when I wasn’t playing baseball, I never took my eye off the ball, it was a lesson well learned on the field of dreams.

America has taken its eye off the ball as a result of a charismatic, Afro-American President who doesn’t speak as well as you might think without a teleprompter and he has been very effective in diverting our attention domestically with back-room Chicago-style political diversions, of  health care reform, cap and trade, wealth redistribution, growth of government, the take-over of banks, investment institutions, the auto industry and is attempting to make inroads into stifling communications despite his false promises of transparency.  Meanwhile his disapproval rating is at the 56% level and unemployment is at a realistic rate of 17.5%.

Where should the focus be after ferreting-out all the diversions?

Iran – the symbolism of Nazi Germany of yesterday, but again the world threat of tomorrow.

But where is America with this threat?  I’ll tell you where it is – the Obama administration has taken its eye off the ball.  Perhaps with a Marxist purpose in mind?

But who’s paying attention to Iran, the United States the most powerful military nation in the world?  Or, is it Israel the most threatened nation in the world?  A nation that the Obama administration seems to be distancing itself from.

Might we ask what this foreign policy move is all about, or are we all consumed with the Obama agenda that seems to be stonewalling the Iran threat?

Or, perhaps we are not being told what is being done by this administration behind the scenes with respect to Iran – more transparency?

All that I know on the basis of what is being revealed, not by the White House, is that Iran is on its way to becoming a nuclear threat not only to the Middle East but also to the West and the rest of the World.

President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad has dismissed the West’s year-end deadline for Iran to accept an enrichment fuel deal.

The West believes Iran wants to make atomic bombs.

And what comes out of the White House, “Mr Ahmadinejad may not recognize, for whatever reason, the deadline that looms, but that is a very real deadline for the international community,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday.

He went on to say, “If they decide not to take it, then the (major powers) will move accordingly.”

I mean this rhetoric is laughable.  Is this the world order that Obama is working toward – “the major powers” ?  I mean the world powers is -  Us.  It has been us for as long as we can remember.  It was us that saved Europe more than once – yes it is us!

Meanwhile Ahmadinejad says that the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Israel should be dismantled.  The Jewish state is assumed to have the Middle East’s only atomic weapons.

“They must know that the Iranian nation and all the world’s nations will continue resisting until the complete (nuclear) disarmament of American and all arrogant powers,” Ahmadinejad said.

I know, there’s a lot on our plate, much more than I would have ordered.  But you see, Obama created the menu and metaphorically he’s not keeping his eye on the ball of importance.