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I have been amused greatly by opinions on FR that believe Obama will eventually do himself in due to his lack of experience, blunders, mismanagement, marxist tendancies and other assorted goofs and failures as chief executive. I particularly enjoy the comments on how this will inevitably usher in a new Reagan like figure and era.

Even if rookie Obama has all the answers, and I don't think that he does, respected political analysts are saying that winning the presidency this time probably shouldn't be regarded as a win for either party. In fact, just as GW Bush essentially destroyed his presidency with the Iraq War, Obama has arguably already destroyed the next administration with an "Iraq War" that he helped to create.

More specifically, analysts are saying that the delayed banking crisis tsunami is probably going to make fools out of the best people that we could have sent to DC in the next few years. But the Democrats "won" DC anyway and they and Obama are likely going to reap the consequences of his unthinking contribution to the banking crisis in the next several years.

The article at first link below is by Dick Morris. The article at the second link is said to be by Charles Krauthammer, but I haven't been able to substantiate that.

http://www.newsmax.com/morris/republicans_stronger/2008/11/06/148571.html

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/112008/11092008/423175

If the title of the second referenced article looks funny on anybody's browser, it should probably read as follows.

Economic tsunami + brilliant Obama = doom

“In fact, just as GW Bush essentially destroyed his presidency with the Iraq War...”

This is what I’m talking about. You just accepted without question the media’s narrative about the Bush presidency and the WOT. The Bush adminsitration is a failure because the MSM says so? The effort in Iraq (it’s not a war, the war ended when we defeated Hussein) is a failure because the MSM says so? The WOT is a failure because the MSM says so?

If we can’t expect FReepers to be resilient against media manipulation and propaganda, what hope have we for the rest of America?

I’m sorry, but it’s posts like this that give me the most pessimistic feeling about “righting” this country.

That article does seem to be from Krauthammer, it mentions his name at the end of the second page.

For me, the most interesting part was:

"The fact that John McCain got 46 percent of the electorate when 75 percent said the country was going in the wrong direction is quite remarkable."

It showed that Obama's victory stands on very shaky ground. If McCain was a better candidate, or had not made some of the mistakes we're now dissecting, he might have won this thing, when he should have gotten blown out of the water given the financial panic we were in.

Obamugabe's votes were primarily "wishes" from people who used the same set of thinking skills that come into play when they buy lottery tickets. You know the odds are heavily against you, but you plunk down the money anyway, hoping for something magical.