This article from today’s L.A. Times sums up the situation regarding Barack Obama as the President of the United States. In a nutshell, Mr. Obama is too smart, too intellectual to be President. <\/p>\n
So how did he get there? In 2008 he was pitted against a military officer, who might have inspired public confidence in ordinary times. In fact, former Navy Captain John McCain was pulling ahead of Obama in the polls in early September, when the economy suddenly went over a scary precipice as several major financial companies failed (Lehman Brothers being the biggest of the big fish coming to the proverbial water’s surface upside down). The ‘average Americans’, the people who swing Presidential elections, got scared for their future and decided that an Ivy League professor would have a better shot at untangling the growing economic mess than someone who would place Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. (The latter being an example, in the cynical sense, of ‘military intelligence’.)<\/p>\n
This time, this year, it could be very different. Professor Obama, much to his credit, kept the bottom from falling out on our nation in 2009. However, since then things haven’t gotten too much better either. There is still very much uncertainty and unemployment on the American economic scene. The “swing voters” of today might thus decide that a businessman and not an intellectual would have a better shot at getting the engine of American economic growth back up to full speed in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
(Not that I necessarily agree with that idea; but it appears to me that it would be quite easy for the American “silent majority” to reach that conclusion this November.)<\/p>\n
As to myself, I am probably going to vote for Obama this November. However, I agree with Meghan Daum when she says of Obama:<\/p>\n
The gulf between the brilliant young man who wanted to change the world and the stymied president who can barely pass a piece of legislation . . . suggests he could have served the American people far more effectively if he weren’t bogged down being the leader of the free world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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