As I compose this missive I still maintain that I have absolutely no idea who's going to be president in 2013. It's looking as if Mitt Romney has the necessary momentum at this point and is projected to be more or less tied for vital swing state voting . . . but it could still be Barack Obama as president in 2013. We shall just have to wait and see. But clearly things have gone seriously wrong for Obama and for his presidency regardless of the eventual outcome of this election.
Although it will probably be a decade or two in the future, eventually the Left of Center segment of this nation is going to have to face facts where their former Anointed One is concerned and acknowledge that Barack Obama really and truly was not even qualified [in meaningful political terms, that is] in background or experience to become president that early in his political career. If he wins a second term then perhaps the more seasoned and experienced man can effect a massive turn around in both attitude and competence . . . but -- again -- he was a dismal failure of a president in that first term due to simply being too green at the time for the most challenging and difficult executive office position in the history of mankind.
Most serious political thinkers now acknowledge that half of the Democratic Party made a huge mistake in going with the liberal fad of the year political rock star called Barack Obama rather than with Hillary Clinton, a far more seasoned and proven politician -- with deep and vital political connections on both sides of the political aisle in both the House and Senate -- who'd been mentored by Bill Clinton himself to be an effective president on day one.
Make no mistake about this . . . Obama supporters . . . Barack Obama was a liberal fad who was irrationally adored by his supporters and was over-the-top pandered to and adored by the bulk of the nation's media outlets back in not only 2008 but after becoming president; in the entirety of 2009. Here's a link in which the 2008 phenomenon of Obama-mania is set forth for you: http://townhall.com/columnists/victo...ent/page/full/
But what happened to the Obama phenomenon between those glory days of 2008 and that historically significant and now forever famous first presidential debate of October 4, 2012 in which President Obama elected to imitate Clint Eastwood's empty chair? Reality happened in that it finally caught up with this inept and clueless poser of a president.
All new presidents -- regardless of the extent of their political background -- undergo roughly a two year long on the job training program of necessity in their first term during which most of them gradually morph from a party faithful ideologue or hack into the legitimate chief executive of the most powerful and influential nation on Earth. It took both Reagan and Bill Clinton slightly less time than most but it still took both men over a year to genuinely become statesmen of the nation rather than just petty politicians . . . and Obama never got there at all.
Barack Obama never did reach that sweet spot in which he consistently put the needs of his nation before his personal ideological imperatives or before petty party politics. It was even pointed out at the time that during that first year and a half of trying to ram Obama Care through the system Obama never got out of campaign bullet points speech mode and into statesman mode . . . something that even G.W. Bush managed to do in the same time span.
Why?
Because Obama was at least eight years of serious political seasoning and national level experiences away from being ready to become president back in 2008. That's why and that's why he still seems to be at least half crippled in necessary statesmanlike skill sets as he struggles to win a second term of office. Hopefully if he does win re-election he will finally grow into the mantle of president and commander-in-chief. Meh . . . better late than never I suppose.