The British newspaper The Telegraph opines today that Obama may be coming to the end of his road as POTUS.
More and more often words like “desperation,” “in-fighting,” “demoralized” and “fractious” are being used to describe an administration that once held out hope to it’s partisans that it would be able to deliver the long hoped for socialist paradise where life would be easy, our every whim would be government’s command and it could all be paid for by taxing “the rich” who would be thrilled to see their hard earned wealth confiscated. After all, it was such a noble cause, who wouldn’t want to contribute more and more so that the masses could do less and less.
But then reality hit this feckless administration between the eyes. Isn’t it funny how 15,000,000 unemployed Americans, jaw-dropping deficits and the endlessly proferred middle finger salute from the White House to the voters can galvanize public opinion?
With his poll numbers headed south and most of his policies with lopsided, upside down approve/disapprove ratios as well, Obama has demonstrated that he has spent his own political capital almost as fast as he is burning through our money with his ineffective, redistributive policies.
On March 18, we are told that Obama wants to have his “up or down vote” on the shop worn Health Care bill that has been drug through both Houses of Congress for the last year. Whichever way the vote goes, IMHO Obama is done. If it passes, it will be the middle finger to the voters and they will return the sentiment in November. If it fails, it’s ” The Emperor Has No Clothes” and Obama’s opponents in both parties will move in to wrest power from him. Obama has painted himself into the proverbial corner and it doesn’t look like their is any way for him to get out. That being said, I don’t for a moment think we can let our guard down until this administration is politely ushered from the Oval Office back to being private citizens. What a welcome relief that will be!
~~John Cronin~~
A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama: Bill Clinton was re-elected two years after the Republicans swept the House and the Senate in November 1994. But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. That wasted first year, however, is another boulder hanging from his neck: what is wrong needs time to put right. The country’s multi-trillion dollar debt is barely being addressed; and a country engaged in costly foreign wars has a President who seems obsessed with anything but foreign policy – as a disregarded Britain is beginning to realise.
There are lessons from the stumbling of Mr Obama for our own country as we approach a general election. Vacuous promises of change are hostages to fortune if they cannot be delivered upon to improve the living conditions of a people. The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern. There is no point a nation’s having the audacity of hope unless it also has the sophistication and the will to turn it into action. As things stand, Barack Obama and America under his leadership do not.
Read Complete Article at telegraph.co.uk
