Empty Suit Update

If the Republicans win on Tuesday … and I think they will … it will not be because this is a racist country (as far too many Democrat are now professing.) It will be because the majority of Americans twice elected a black man as president and he has turned out to be an empty suit … see my previous assessment: Empty Suit. Yes, he seems likable enough, can very effectively read someone else’s words from a Teleprompter, has surrounded himself with consummate (but conniving) politicians, has a fine upstanding family and a great smile. But, in almost every other category, he is a cipher.

Yet, demagogue Democrat after demagogue Democrat are accusing American voters of turning against Obama because he is a black man … trying to elicit the same type of guilty feelings that helped get this affirmative-action graduate elected in the first place. Just like the annealing process helps make metal stronger and more resilient, President Obama might have benefited if he had had a few setbacks on the way to his coronation in 2009. He sailed through college, law school, community organizing, the Illinois Senate, and the U.S. Senate without the slightest questioning of his abilities. His ego has therefore been so massaged that he has never had to doubt his underpinnings … or those of his posse.

As a result the United States has been saddled with a president who not only has extreme political views, but also exhibits few management skills to move our nation forward. (In a way this might have been a backward blessing.) The signature achievement of his first six years in office, Obamacare, was passed with him being a passive spectator to the corrupt legislative practices of his fellow Democrats. And, the result is a law so convoluted and biased that it might only survive under a total redraw. Virtually everything else he has touched, both domestically and internationally has proven to be the inept product of a haughty America-hater.

Fortunately this country is somehow still standing and, if the Republicans end up controlling Congress in January, we might have a chance of righting our ship of state. But it won’t be an easy task … for I sense a vindictive streak in Obama that might make those ensuing two years a very difficult period for our liberties, our way of governance, and our Constitution. And, much as I identify with the Republicans, I realize that they too are politicians and subject to the same self-serving instincts as the Democrats have shown. But fortunately, it might take them longer to degenerate to this same lugubrious level.

Afterthought: To indulge a liberal's rambling discourse on this same subject read: Politico's OpEd.