Is It Over for President Obama?

   Bookmark and Share  My years of awareness in regards to presidential politics goes back to Nixon when as I was all of 8 years old and remember Richard Nixon leaving the White House in disgrace.  From there I remember how Gerald Ford fought but failed to win his own full term in office as President.  And then came 1980 when Ronald Reagan sparked my political interest in a way that led to my own dedication to public policy and politics.  Since then I have seen President’s rise and plummet in the polls.  I remember seeing George H.W. Bush go from a popularity rating in the upper eighties in 1991, to losing the election in the Electoral College in a landslide in 1992.  I have witnessed Bill Clinton fall from grace and rise back to iconoclastic popularity.  But never before have I seen a presidential election where a supposedly very popular President saw his reelection unravel quite as quickly as Barack Obama’s has been seeing in the last month.

Evidence of this became overwhelmingly obvious as over the past few days we have seen polls show a decided shift to Mitt Romney among voters nationally.  Since the beginning of the month we have found that among military voters, Romney has a 2 to 1 margin over the President.  We also understand that the Jewish vote which traditionally supports Democrats is being won by Mitt Romney over the President.  New polls also show that Barack Obama’s once 18 point lead over Romneyamong womern has evaporated and today we learn that Mitt Romney has a 19% lead over Barack Obama among independents, the swing voters whose decisions usually determine the winner in any given election.

But in addition to signs of a tide against Barack Obama turning in to a tidal wave that threatens to drown any chance of his getting reelected, we are seeing a President who acts more and more desperate as we approach Election Day.

Instead of demonstrating how presidential he is, Barack Obama is doing an endless tour of late night talk shows from Jon Stewart to Jay Leno as  our President avoids any hard news outlets in favor of low brow, pop culture entertainment programs.   Then when he is not sitting aside TV personalities discussing his favorite color, he is on the campaign trail discussing little things such as Mitt Romney’s unwillingness to provide Big Bird with a taxpayer funded government handout.  And as we listen to his references to binders and Big Bird and hear about our President claiming to reporters that even six year old children can see Mitt Romney is a “bullshitter”, Americans can’t help but be struck by how truly unpresidential our President has become.

Meanwhile, as the pressure of the election continues to get to the President and reveal the flaws in this once messianic figure of the liberal lore, we are not hearing anything about the 24 million Americans out of work and how he will get them back to work.  We are not hearing anything about the national debt that is now so burdensome it is considered a national security risk.  And speaking of national security we are also not hearing anything about the national security scandal and coverup surrounding the tragic events in Benghazi, Libya.  No, the President refuses to honestly tell us what he knew or when knew it.  He refuses to explain to us why he tried to deny the events in Benghazi were terrorist attacks, even though the evidence shows he did know it was.  Our President refuses to even explain how he never knew that al Qaeda, the terrorist group the President has admitted is our greatest threat in thew world, was establishing itself in Libya after our Ambassador to Libya made the white House aware of that fact in messages sent for as long as two months.

Then this morning I heard from someone who is not running for President.  A man whose only real political activity consists of fulfilling his civic responsibility of making an educated vote.  His name is Charles Woods and he is the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the four Americans killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack. New evidence revealed that Tyrone Woods and the others in the consulate who were killed during the attack, had been pleading for help and the requests were denied.  To this issue Tyrone’s father spoke out.  Charles Woods wants answers.  The revelation did nothing to console the broken hear of father who lost his son. Instead it merely served as a more heartbreak as we are all left wondering who decided to not send in the troops who could have helped save his son and the three other assassinated Americans.  Instead Charles Woods son was left to defend our Ambassador and two other Americans on his own while fighting for his life.

Nothing else matters more than the answers to that right now.  Yet our President is now finishing up a an appearance on MTV after a 48 hour campaign tour that can only be described as a denial tour… denial of the failing economy, denial of no plan to create jobs or cutting our deficit.  Denial of all accountability for every aspect of the failed Obama record, including denials about the facts involving Benghazi.  It is time for our President to take a deep breath and get control of himself.  As our current Commander-In-Chief we need Benghazi explained and the mistakes that allowed Benghazi to come to fruition corrected so that it does not happen again.  We cannot go another day wondering if the pleas for help of another American serving their nation are falling on the deaf ears of a White House and President concerned more with getting virgins to vote for the President than he is with saving the lives of Americans.

So far our President is doing what he does best… avoiding the issue.  Our President refuses to explain any of this.  Instead we are being offered reasons to vote for him based upon sex, false accusations, and promises to deliver in the next four years what he couldn’t deliver in the past four.

While it is premature to suggest the election is over, based upon the more than obvious unravelling of the Obama presidency it is not premature to predict that President Obama is currently on a trajectory that is plummeting to ground faster than a rain drops pouring from the clouds.  And it is not too early to suspect that we are witnessing the makings of the most surprising landslide victory of any challenger to an incumbent President since Reagan overwhelmed Carter.  But more than four years ago, I did predict that Barack Obama was going to be the second coming of Jimmy Carter.  Unfortunately I was wrong.  While Carter’s was a failed presidency, he was not the evil, conniving, liar-in-chief that Barack Obama clearly is.

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