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Barack Obama must have been born under a lucky star, wherever the undisclosed location of his birth may be. First, he runs on hope and change during the most opportunistic times, luring the public into thinking he would be any different from the previous Presidents.
Then, he potentially may run against the weakest and most radical field of Republican candidates since the Clinton Presidency.
What luck indeed. My advice to the President would be to play the power ball.
The Republicans hunger for a candidate so different from Barack Obama, who is little more than a centrist with a few leftist leanings, has brought them to supporting and embracing a field of radical candidates that makes the era of the Red Scare seem measured. They have gone so far off the deep end even Michael Phelps couldn’t save them.
We are after all talking about people who defend the banks, deride homosexuals and wish to ban or limit women’s access to reproductive services and contraception. It’s as though they are living in the ‘50’s; the 1850’s. As if conservatives didn’t have a hard enough time attracting female voters. Yet, Obama’s rivals, particularly Rick Santorum, have taken these stances.
Of course, the truly sad part is there are people who, while struggling to pay for their family’s groceries, want to lower taxes for banks and oil companies while they still scrape by and try to pay their fair share. However, it seems unlikely there will be enough of these types to catapult the Republicans to the White House in 2012.
Obama has also done masterful job of playing both sides. While still making some concessions to the liberal base by signing The Lilly Ledbetter Act, he has also continued the same policies of his conservative predecessor.
It always puzzles me when people call him a “socialist” (as though President Bush who bailed out the banks and revamped the Medicare prescription drug plan while we were in debt, isn’t) or “liberal” on fiscal and political issues. Yes, the same man who proposes reducing corporate tax rates to 28%, proposed the very same health insurance policy Mitt Romney implemented, has continued the Bush tax cuts, continued (in fact increased) drone attacks overseas and the unwarranted surveillance, indefinite detention and in some cases killing of American citizens is a socialist. He also has refused to repeal the defense of marriage Act, although he has ceased to enforce it which is little solace to its opponents.
Additionally, President Obama has done nothing to eliminate or reduce gun ownership rights. In fact, he has extended gun owner’s rights by allowing the transportation of firearms into national parks and on trains. Oh yeah, and he has kept tax rates at the lowest rate they have ever been. Sound “socialist” and liberal enough for you?
But, don’t take my word for it. Even Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican opponent, and Ron Paul have stated that Obama is not a socialist. In fact, Ron Paul has described Barack Obama as a “corporatist” for his support of the automotive bailout and other political stances.
The lackluster field of republican candidates, a slowly decreasing unemployment number and Obama’s campaigning skills should make an Obama victory all but certain.
So, time to take your “Obama countdown clocks” and scrape off your “Herman Cain 2012” bumper stickers and get ready for another 4 years of “socialism” Obama style.
