Is it Barack Obama’s destiny to be a transformational president and a great world historical figure as many on the Left are hoping and audaciously believe? A man who in the course of his presidency, or as a result thereof, will radically turn America into a “more perfect Union” of social justice and economic equality and change human history for the better? The answer is no! As Obama lacks the gravitas, strength of character and intellect to be such a man and play such a role, such is not his destiny.

In the 20th century America was blessed with two transformational presidents, two larger than life leaders: Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan whose imprint on world history is undeniable and whose mission and destiny were prefigured by auspicious signs and wonders. But as you will see below there are no such signs for Barack Obama, nothing to herald an exalted destiny that history will remember for its achievements and praise.

Take for example FDR: On January 5, 1933 exactly 58 days after defeating Herbert Hoover and 58 days before his inauguration, the 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge died (see note 1). You will notice that Coolidge's death occurred in January a month named in honor of the Roman god Janus the two faced god of gates, doorways and new beginnings; the month when FDR himself was born, the month that begins the year anew and a new America, in 1933, was born. For just as Coolidge died equidistant from FDR's election and inauguration cutting the transition period right in half (an extraordinary occurrence given that he was President) the head of the god Janus is depicted in Roman art as having one head divided equally into two faces: one face in front and the other in back looking forward and backward simultaneously.

As Janus is the god of doorways and doors and these are the transition points between the outside and inside of houses and buildings Janus is the god of transitions indicating passage from the old to the new, from the past to the future as January is the month of transition to the new year from the old. But as the god looks ahead to the future and back to the past he is a symbol of progress and historical continuity where tried, proven and enduring values are carried over into the new age (see note 2). In short, Janus, as bizarre as his double image seems, is an ancient symbol of conservatism: “We praise the past but experience our own times, yet both are ways worthy of being cultivated,” sang Janus in Ovid’s Fasti.

In a word, Coolidge’s death marked the end of an era in US history, the era of isolationism when America would begin its "rendezvous with destiny" as an international power on the great world stage bringing its ideals and values to mankind. This transformation was forged in the crucible of a terrible war and by FDR’s wartime leadership which ended in absolute victory and the American eagle taking flight over the world.

It seems significant that Roosevelt who turned America into a global interventionist power was the first President to be inaugurated in the month of January. As this happened on January 20, 1937 at the start of FDR’s second of his unprecedented four terms it was toward the end of this term that World War II began in Europe marking the start of America’s transformation into the Superpower of Liberty (see note 3).

Coolidge was the first and only President to be born on July 4th. Born in 1872 it fell on the 96th anniversary of our nation’s founding-a number that is a multiple of 32 three times, the number of FDR’s presidency. Coolidge’s well timed death was a super-auspicious sign that the great transformation America was to undergo during FDR’s presidency was rooted in our founding moment and was our divinely appointed destiny. Let those who apologize for America’s global actions and think her hegemony an historical mistake ponder these signs.

Now just as Coolidge’s death appears to have heralded the end of isolationism-trade protectionism and military non-intervention-and America’s transformation into a great world power his death dividing the Hoover/FDR transition stage into two periods of 58 days each seems to have prefigured World War II. I say this because 58 is a factor of the number 1914 denoting the year when World War I began. And as the number 58 is given twice by Coolidge’s death it looks like an ominous numeric sign indicating a doubling of 1914, a second world war causing twice the carnage, destruction and suffering of the first (see Appendix and note 4). There is more that I can say on the connection between Coolidge’s death, our founding moment, FDR’s presidency and America’s global destiny but this will do for now.

While the great sign of FDR’s presidential destiny was given by Coolidge’s death midway through the Hoover/FDR transition period, the sign indicating Reagan’s historic destiny as victor in the Cold War came at the extremes: at the beginning and end of the transition from the Carter presidency to Reagan’s. I say this because the date of Reagan’s victory over Carter, November 4, 1980, and his inauguration 77 days later on January 20th, marked the first anniversary of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, when 52 US diplomats were seized in Tehran, and its end 444 agonizing days latter (see note 5). Never had a new administration gotten off to such a promising and propitious start. For the peaceful release of the 52 hostages coinciding with Reagan’s inauguration was emblematic of his destiny as the Great Liberator (one of three in US history); emblematic of the man who would peacefully bring down the tyrannical Soviet State and free millions of captives held hostage in Eastern Europe to totalitarian rule (see note 6). Indeed, as the hostages were set free on the 444th day of their captivity this number was symbolic of Reagan’s great destiny as liberator and torch bearer of freedom; his destiny of smashing the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain and bringing American values and ideals to the millions who were trapped behind them. For the number 444-which mysteriously reappears at Reagan’s death-is a factor of the number 1776 (4x) the momentous year when the Founders declared independence from Great Britain, the day America’s epic historic journey of liberty began (see THE DEATH OF RONALD REAGAN: THE PROVIDENTIAL MAN AND HIS PROVIDENTIAL DISEASE ).

>The death of Obama’s grandmother from cancer one day prior to his historic election (see THE OMINOUS DEATH OF MADELYN DUNHAM AND ITS MEANING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA ).

>The embarrassing arrest of Governor Blagojevich for committing the crime of putting Obama’s Senate seat up for sale (see BLAGOJEVICH, BURRIS, OBAMANOMICS AND THE BUNGLED OATH ) .

>The tragic crash of Flight 3407 in upstate New York killing the wife of a 9/11 victim just 28 days after a safe crash landing in the final days of the Bush era a crash where the brother of a 9/11 victim survived (see FLIGHTS 1549, 3407 AND 9/11 ).

>The lower Manhattan 747 flyover that buzzed ground zero and caused a 9/11 scare authorized by a Mexican American in the US city hardest hit by the Mexican Swine Flu (see MEXICO, LOUIS CALDERA AND SIGNS OF THE NEXT 9/11? )

>Joe Biden delivering the new administration’s first foreign policy speech at a security conference in Munich foreshadowing Obama’s apology and appeasement tours of Europe, the Middle East and Latin America (see BIDEN DOES MUNICH 2009 ).

>Obama’s fawning, apologetic speech to Islam at Ankara, Turkey followed within hours by a Turkish Canadian stealing an airplane and landing it across the US boarder at Carter County, Missouri (see TURKEY, OBAMA AND THE WORSENING CONFLICT WITH ISLAM ).

>The mind boggling airplane disaster in a Catholic cemetery killing the children and grandchildren of an abortion clinic owner-a cemetery with a shrine to the victims of Roe v. Wade (see EVIDENCE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT ).

>Obama’s bungled speech at Strasbourg, France where he stumbled on the all important word “equality” the principle driving his ill-fated economic and domestic agenda (see THE MEANING OF OBAMA'S STRASBOURG BLUNDER).