The only drawback to term limits is that in a second term, a President who has no reason to curry favor with voters can attempt to impose unpopular measures with political impunity. As we all know, it would truly be a disaster for this particular White House occupant to get a second term.
Is it just me, or is our current President not acting as if this IS his last term?
I began to feel this way when he decided to take the 10 day Hawaii vacation at a time when no political advisor would have approved.
The Ossowatomie speech represented a complete “coming out of the closet” on his socialism, something he had been careful to hide to that point.
His State of the Union speech can be summed up as “re-elect me, and you’ll get more of the same”. Not particularly shrewd, given the polling he must see on a daily basis.
In nixing the Keystone Pipeline, Obama had to know that he was not gaining enviro-nut votes in the same quantity that he would lose union and independents over his stance on the issue.
Now we watch as he alienates the Catholic Church, a voting bloc he carried in 2008, and absolutely must carry in 2012 to have a prayer (pun intended) for a second term.
Is it not possible that those who claimed our President was a “puppet”, controlled by some powerful, nefarious interests, are right? Is it so hard to believe, given what we don’t know about the current occupant of our White House, that they know something on him that gives them the power to tell him to take a hike?
Our President is acting as if he has a very small window to both enjoy the trappings of the Presidency, and impose his will.
Let’s remember that LBJ’s “I shall not seek...” speech occurred on March 31, 1968, a mere seven months prior to that year’s election. There’s still time for a replacement candidate for the party.
We now know Obama’s gone rogue. His Vice President and Chief of Staff were both against squaring off against the Catholic Church. Are his “handlers” now pulling the strings, to get what they want now, instead of waiting for what must look like to them a defeat in November?
Or, if the conspiracists are wrong, and he has no “handlers”, he most certainly is acting as if he feels he won’t be re-elected, and he’s trying to impose as much of his agenda as he can before he leaves office.
He has handlers, I would bet my last dollar on it, there is no way imaginable that he has gotten to where he is by his own efforts. He couldn’t earn enough money to put food in his own mouth without handlers. Go to youtube and spend an hour searching and listening to him, he is very far from the brilliant mind that the left tries to pretend he is.
He does not care since he knows that the 50% of welfare parasites in this country will vote for him regardless of what he does.
He does not care since he knows that the 50% of welfare parasites in this country will vote for him regardless of what he does.