NOBAMA!!, Nyet!!, if you are Vladimir Putin.

This today's from the Los Angeles Times token Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on the "Presumptive Teleprompter President".

"The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. Then in July, he conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a "prenaugural" address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan."

Now with Putin reverting back to his old Soviet KGB roots by unleashing an savage assault on a democratic nation, what sort of "Its 3:00 AM" response of leadership do we get from the "Presumptive Teleprompter President"?

"First, late Thursday evening, he gave a conventional written statement calling for calm, U.N. action and "restraint" from both sides -- followed an hour later by a slightly stronger condemnation of Russian aggression and a call for a cease-fire."

Did Jimmy Carter write this on the teleprompter for Obama in the hopes that Putin would call for a "bug out" from Georgian Territory??

Being the "Presumptive Teleprompter President", one can create daily acts of symbolism that plays well to the Tim Ruttens in the MSM and Obamanistas across the collectivist landscape.

But the cause of freedom and standing up for infant democracies such as Georgia is best not left to someone who's "main act of political substance" was organizing the collective neighborhoods of Chicago under the Daley/ACORN banner.

and this retrospective from Goldberg column.

This moment calls for more than playacting, yet Obama looks lost without a presidential script. Events in the Caucasus -- and, for that matter, in Beijing -- suggest that the times aren't so new after all. Two powerful antidemocratic foes are once again flexing their muscles at a moment when America seems weak and distracted. That is not a new challenge but a very old one.

Perhaps this is not a time for a novice spouting grand rhetoric about a new page in history, but for someone who's actually read the pages of some old, but still relevant, books. Perhaps this is not the time for playacting.

Perhaps it is not the time for body surfing?