Obama's Lesson In Domestic Politics

BO’s plummeting approval ratings indicate that many of the Americans who voted for this guy have discovered he’s not the package they thought he was.

Very few Americans have much in common with Obama (even less so with his wife - "this is a downright mean country"). OK, but not a deal breaker necessarily. And it is no secret that Obama had zero executive experience. Fine. Not necessarily a deal breaker either. What should have been a deal breaker is the fact that Obama was the single most partisan of any Democratic senator, that he was/is nothing if not a radical progressive (although he camouflaged that in the campaign). What also should have been a deal breaker is his cozy relationship with radical anti-Americans like Wright and Ayers, his history of eliminating his senatorial rivals through leaked divorce records, the fact that he was a cog in the Chicago banking/mortgage shake-down machine, and that along with others he blocked reform at Fannie/Freddie - ground zero. How do these things translate to a qualification? Simply overlooked? Certainly they were trumped in the election by white guilt (and BO’s master leveraging of his preferred half color), a sour economy and a lunatic-like hatred of Bush.

Yet it only took nine months for Americans to say "enough," exercising in fine style the First Amendment. BO got a pass in the election; he did not get a pass on his attempt as president to further nationalize US economic resources in the guise of health reform.

Obama can gain from this experience. He has just been told that he was hired to empower Americans, not government.

Robert Craven