Just before Barack Obama defeated John McCain for the presidency he confidently told his followers at a political rally in Virginia, "I feel that righteous winds are at our backs." And sure enough less than one month later he was blown into office by an economic hurricane and by voters blindly hungry for change. Now three years later with the hurricane returning and picking up strength "the winds," says David Axelrod, are blowing smack into Obama's "face," and that he [the titanic failure] has a "titanic struggle" ahead.
For a sitting president to surmount a "titanic struggle" for reelection he must have titanic moral strength, leadership abilities, and persuasive powers-which are sorely lacking in this ineffective, mendacious, blundering, incompetent man. Obama's reelection doesn't have a prayer, and it would be best if he withdrew from the race as there are nothing but killer icebergs ahead.
Apart from his mental and moral deficiencies, and the miserably underperforming, overregulated, overtaxed economy, there are two good reasons why Obama is unreelectable:
1. Obama has permanently alienated the Independents. These are the folks that supported Ross Perot's third party candidacy in 1992 and made Bill Clinton president. Perot, as did Obama in 08, ran as a reformer who'd change the way Washington did business, and save the nation from insolvency. But no sooner was he sworn into office than Obama shocked Independents by recklessly putting business as usual on steroids: growing the size, scope and cost of government to dangerous, unsustainable levels of spending and debt. Obama can't win back the Indies, they're gone for good. He tried doing that after the last election by going on a phony centrist offensive pretending to be another Bill Clinton and it failed-remember Obama with Clinton in the Briefing Room when he was made too look like an amateur? Whatever trickery he tries on the Indies (like blaming the rich for his economic mess and punishing them with tax hikes) Obama can't deceive his way back into their confidence and trust. The Indies are on to him, he betrayed them titanically, and there'll not give him a second chance to fool them.
2. The hunger for change, which is growing voraciously, will soon reach the titanic levels of 2008. As Obama represents the status quo and cannot be the candidate of change he will go the way of John McCain who was widely perceived as another George Bush offering more of the same. And so is it with Obama. No matter how much he tries to reinvent himself to meet the new need for change Obama is seen as hopelessly stuck on stupid making things worse with each passing day. The deepening economic gloom and loss of faith in Obama is so grave that 48% of the public see another great depression ahead (see). And try as he may his class warfare rhetoric and jobs act gimmickry can do nothing to change that.
Americans again are looking for hope and change, but this time in a candidate with a record of accomplishments. Obama has been a hard lesson learned about rolling the dice and leaving things to chance as the public did when they elected him based on charisma, smiles, race and empty rhetoric. Never again will such a man be president, especially in times of crisis.
The KING OF THE WORLD, soon to be KING OF THE FISHES.
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