Niall Ferguson: Obama’s Gotta Go
Aug 19, 2012 1:00 AM EDT
Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope.
I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the apotheosis of Barack Obama. You would not be human if you failed to acknowledge this as a cause for great rejoicing.”
Were the president a GOP’er, he would be announcing that he would not seek another term to be fair to the party. However, since he has the media in lockstep behind him, the president can march to November with a chance at re-election. His term reminds me of the Jimmy Carter years where a president took a bad time and made it worse. We are still in an economic shambles, un- and under- employment are still at high levels and our nation is viewed as a toadie – not a leader. All of these promises by the president have gone un-fulfilled. He promised hope and change but we only got one: change for the worse. As for hope, that was abandoned within his first year. Respectfully, he has been a dismal failure by any measure.
So much for Newsweek being part of the liberal lamestream media.
Can you imagine The Weekly Standard or National Review printing a cover story saying an incumbent GOP President, who is supported by the party establishment and a majority of party voters, has got to hit the road???
Yeah and these double digit inflation rates are even worse than the Carter era. Oh…wait. Comparing today with 1979 is inaccurate. I agree that this country could do better than Obama, but the current political machine isn’t letting us choose from an optimal pool of candidates.
Face it. The GOP is dead in the water right now, and the Tea Party isn’t going to get very far backing the likes of Michelle Bachman and Todd Akin. They might be able to get the support of the common folk in flyover country and some of the more intellectually challenged out on the coasts, but who in their right mind is going to vote the likes of them into the office of the Presidency?
Along that vein though I do shudder that Biden is a heartbeat away from being President.