Obama is a symptom of our problems as a nation, not the cause. Forgetting all of our GOP or Democratic prejudices, this fiasco began with the 2000 election. Love him or hate him, there was no doubt that Gore was the most prepared presidential candidate in 100 years.
He should have won easily in 2000. The Clinton baggage and other factors caused him to lose that squeaker in favor of a Know-Nothing who was perhaps the least qualified president since Warren G. Harding.
Instead of learnng from the 2000 mistake, the voters simply elected another unqualified candidate, just for different reasons.
Bush and Obama are from opposite ends of the “ME” generation. Although one was born Rich and one was Middle-Class, both had the audacity not of Hope, but of their own self-interest. Neither was, or is, fit to govern, by temperment, nor experience.
Bush hired a master propagandist, Karl Rove, and Obama did the same with David Axlerod. Thus is the nature of politics today. They both believed that we are the “folks” who can be swayed with emotional appeals. Both were right. Simply put: They gave the people bread and circuses, in the forms of wars, tax incentives and clunker rebates.
If the economy improves on its own before November 2010, The mid-term elections will favor Obama, and if the economy improves just enough, he will be re-elected.
If it doesn’t, we will get a GOP president in 2012 with an even slicker propagandist than either Axlerod or Rove to convince the ignorant masses among us that they are a “new kind of politico.”
Throughout history, there is one constant: People deserve the government they get.
