As readers know ...I make mistakes - lots of them - just review my past New Year Predictions.
Another miss is coming up - my prediction that on the last days of Obama's Presidency the public would be riding him out of town on a rail. (an olde American expression meaning the towns-fold are fully disgusted with someone and want them go leave town).
Today, though, that is most unlikely - the little guy has a favourable rating of 53% which is astounding for a President in his last days of his second and final term in office.
What it tells me though is that more and more Americans - like citizens of other Nations in the West, are becoming more and more socialist ...takers as opposed to doers.
The USA still leads in doers - with some 47% to only a third 'doers' in other first world countries.
Those higher numbers indicate that if Obama was legally able to run for a third term, he might well just be successful.
Readers know full well that I view Obama as the very worst President ever. Not surprising though, given the above stats, when I speak with my follows about Obama, most refer to him as a very great President.
So in my ongoing attempt to bring reason to this debate I submit the following analysis of the little guy ...from someone other than myself:
America, under Obama, has passed the status of world financial centre back to London, persecuted law-abiding financial companies and their senior personnel, and assured sluggishness of the entire sector ...
Stimulus money did not improve education outcomes ... and it funded shovel ready boondoggles of the Democratic congressional barons..
The green energy initiatives that have paid dividends were an egregious waste of money deployed to the now vanished bogeyman of global warming..
Obama's health care measures was dishonestly presented with two thirds of Americans wanting it repealed...
He should not have given control of General Motors and Chrysler to the United Auto Workers who were far from blameless for their parlous condition...
He has done almost nothing for African Americans ...
Obama quadrupled the money supply under the spurious cover of quantitative easing and maintaining minimal interest rates by selling trillions of dollars of unbought bonds to the Federal Reserve - a 100 per cent subsidiary for the Treasury paid for by the issuance of notes. It is a shell game that would be attacked in the private sector...
And if this what not bad enough Obama's efforts on the Global Front fared even worse as the author explains:
Obama has allowed the Western Alliance to atrophy...
He has failed to render any assistance to the Ukraine..
He has ensured the disintegration of the of Iraq and the near capture of Bagdad by the Islamic State..
He drew a red line against the Assad Regime for gassing its own civilian population and then abdicated military command ...to the Russians..
Obama's pledge to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear military power evolved into a green light ...
The piece de resistance has been blundering into the position of having Iran and Russia as allies against ISIL
The Author of this piece .... why none other than The Baron of Cross Harbour ... the Honourable Conrad Black.
I could add even more glaring examples of Obama's complete incompetency - for instance - all of the Middle East is Burning...but I won't...maybe I will provide a full recital of his abysmal record at a later date.
For now, suffice to say - regardless what I or even Baron Black has to say - the majority seem to see Obama as the great secular messiah.
They can have him - give me a Churchill any day of the week.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
