Sometimes liberals make me sick.

I was scanning the radio dial while driving this week and happened on a liberal talk show. I listened for a bit, and it was good I had a solid grip on the wheel as I heard the juvenile fawning over Barack Obama.

The man who is president of this country finally found it on his "to do" list to be on the scene with military officers at Dover Air Force Base as the bodies of 18 American military service members were returned to the United States.

He had the routine down pat: the slow salute, timed perfectly with the witnessing officers; the stiff, upright posture and the grim face and eyes focused in the distance.

As I watched him, it appeared he was chewing the inside of his cheeks, as he tried really hard not to break that serious look. People say Obama is a good speaker. Perhaps. But he's not a very good actor, and this was a test.

That he "happened" to show up in the middle of the night with the White House press pool and cameras in tow was clearly just coincidental, wasn't it?

After all, he would have shown up alone to pay respects to the dead, wouldn't he?

Well, no.

Think back to his trip to Germany when he played basketball instead of visiting injured troops because the press wasn't allowed in the hospital.

It's all about priorities, and Obama's priorities are skewed. Americans are becoming cynical about the Obama image even though media present him as "concerned" and "involved."

It was Obama, after all, who on his Olympic "sales trip" to Europe had barely 25 minutes to spare for Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal to discuss the Afghanistan war and the general's request for 40,000 more troops.

Obama still hasn't made up his mind what to do, and while he dithers Americans are being killed and maimed.

These 18 were the remains of American military most recently killed in Afghanistan, the worst month in a year – young men who met the ultimate test of dedication to their country and bravery in the face of ultimate danger.

It's a shame they were used as a photo-op for the president, but the obvious truth of that doesn't surprise me.

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The reaction of the liberals on the radio wasn't about the bravery of the deceased military. It wasn't about the fact of the war and that the man who is president has taken months to make up his mind on what he should be doing about that very real war in Afghanistan that is killing America's best. It wasn't about the losses suffered by the families of those war dead, and it wasn't about the effect of those losses on the military in general who are fighting a war without the full support and commitment of their "commander in chief."

By the way, that would be Barack Obama, the man who is president and because of that, he is the commander in chief.

No, those radio pundits were blathering about how wonderful it was that Barack was there and that they were so proud of him.

Good grief! "So proud of him"?

They made Obama seem like a puppy who needs a pat on the head when he's learned to sit, stay and shake hands.

Stand up straight! Look somber! Salute! Hold the look! Good boy, Obama! Good boy! We're so proud of you.

Perhaps they thought they were praising the man by saying he "made them proud," but they were really insulting him on every level – as president, as commander in chief, as an American citizen.

Unfortunately, their politics blind them to reality.

We're in a war in Afghanistan. It's a war Obama said was necessary and that we need to pursue, yet he's also said that he doesn't see "victory" as an end goal.

It's amazing that liberals and the administration do not see – or will not admit publicly – that such equivocation is neither honest nor American.

Whether you "like" a war or not – and who likes war? – Americans have always believed that if we're in it, we're in it to win. That's based on the premise that the reason for being there is valid, because in a war the lives of our young are put on the line to defend that policy. It had better be a good reason to fight, and we had better support the men and women who voluntarily put their lives on the line for us.

The major failure of Vietnam was that the leaders of this country weren't fighting a war; they were playing politics and playing both ends against the middle. By doing that, they betrayed the men and women in uniform and in turn, betrayed the country.

Our military wasn't supported, our troops were injured and killed, those who returned were treated shamefully, the cowardly, selfish politicians ran for cover and patriotic Americans were left with a mistrust of government that hasn't lessened over the years. If anything, it's worse.

Indeed, the disingenuous posturing of Barack Obama claiming to be working on the issue and that he'll soon have a decision as to what we should do in Afghanistan and the silence of his administration about what is not being done, lays the groundwork for a repeat of the consequences of Vietnam – domestically and internationally.

Such lack of courage on the part of the president as well as his politically motivated inaction may not end the war, but it could well mark the end of the Obama administration and the control of Congress by Democrats and liberals of every stripe.

One can only hope.