Obama's 1st Year Disaster - March 2010

“I’d rather be a really good one-term President than a mediocre two-term President”. So said Barack Obama to ABC News last month. But he left out a more likely third option. Many believe he will actually be a really, really, bad one-term President. And if today’s poll numbers continue, he might even be known forever as the worst one-term President.

Let me tell you why. He is out of touch with the needs and expectations of ordinary Americans. Instead, Obama is trying to Rahm his radical leftist policies down their throats with his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel leading the charge. Both came through the Chicago political machine which is known for hard ball strategies, demonizing tactics, and take no prisoners battles. Thankfully the Republicans in Congress along with a handful of Democrats, a massive number of citizen activists, and certain members of the national media have been able to slow down those efforts and hopefully defeat them.

President Obama truly believes that this is his moment in history to remake America as he envisions it regardless of what our citizenry believes. Whether it is his desire to nationalize the remaining parts of the health insurance industry not already monopolized by government programs, or his goal to force Americans to utilize what he believes are the best energy sources through mandates from his EPA bureaucracy, or his ongoing efforts to set pay and union policies in private industries by fiat from his Pay Czar, the Obama regime is out of control. And these are just his domestic policies.

Obama’s foreign policy disasters have included giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists whose aim is to destroy our country, being on the wrong side of democracy movements in Iran, Honduras, and elsewhere. Talking softly and carrying no stick in facing the nuclear threats of North Korea and Iran. And deserting our leading ally in the Middle East in hopes of forcing peace. Of course giving back a bust of Winston Churchill - which was a gift to our country from England – to the British Prime Minister and giving a misspelled Reset Button to the leader of Russia certainly also played parts in his now laughable reputation around the world.

And if President Obama’s domestic and foreign policies are not bad enough, it is his hypocrisy on the involvement of lobbyists in his regime, his two-faced approach to Wall Street where he privately takes their political contributions while publicly using populist themes against them, and his unwarranted attempts to apologize for the past actions of our country that have really caused his enviable initial approval ratings to plummet to the lowest levels ever for a President one year into his term of office.

But Obama still does not get it. His now famous “we won, you lost” comment to the Republican Congressional Leadership continues to guide his efforts. While he publicly derides the Republicans for not being bipartisan, it is his administration and the Democratic Congressional Leadership who continue to meet behind closed doors to formulate policies and strategies. It is Obama who continues to blame President George W. Bush for his own policy failures. And it his Press Secretary Robert Gibbs who still does not miss an opportunity to taunt the Republicans during his daily press briefings.

The recent election of Republican Scott Brown to a Senate seat from Massachusetts was not seen as a stop sign to this Obama regime. Instead, it has simply caused Obama and the Democratic leaders to consider ways to by-pass Senate protocols to Rahm his agenda into law. And in a show of utter elitism, Obama’s handlers actually blamed the Massachusetts voters for electing Senator Brown rather than blaming the failing Democratic agenda. Maybe they should have blamed Obama himself whose campaign efforts have now failed in New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts, Copenhagen (where he lost the Olympic 2016 bid for Chicago), and in Miami (where he rooted for the Colts rather than the Saints in the recent Super Bowl).

Hopefully America will not fail as President Obama continues to do so. Despite his teleprompter speeches about fiscal responsibility and federal deficits, he continues to borrow and spend as if tomorrow will not come when our children will have to pay the piper. But thankfully voters across this great country have an opportunity this coming November to sufficiently change the make-up of Congress to put a halt to Obama’s socialist plans for America so we can again unleash the entrepreneurial spirit which built this country.