Bad news for Obama - BP admits that their "top kill" has failed. Add this to the re-election problems for the Democrats.Picture left is the floating barge from which BP is trying to shut off the well-head 5100 feet below. This "leak" may remain a problem through the midterm election cycle. Click to enlarge.
1. The Gulf oil spill: Obama cannot change the fact that he took 8 days to say anything about the incident; that he did next to nothing to prevent the oil from drifting onto the Gulf coast shoreline. For 39 days, Obama deferred to BP. We could be talking about 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf waters by election day.
2. Midknight Review has predicted $4.00 per gallon at-the-pump gas for more than a year. Our country has been there before. Obama is doing nothing to prevent this potentiality. In fact, we now know that he believes that high gas prices along with increased taxes is the most effective course to take when "social engineering" is deemed a desirable action. The problem with his move toward a "green job" economy is that we are more than 20 years away from having made a significant move in that direction. In the meantime . . . . . . well, we just don't know what this Administrative failure is thinking. We are stuck with our dependence on oil for many years in the future. He does not seem to grasp that fact.
3. We believe that the Sestak scandal is just beginning to heat up. This will not go away before the elections. If, in fact, the GOP is able to take back the Senate in November, the Republicans will inherit subpoena power and things suddenly get much worse for this novice administrator and Marxist reformer.
4. The Obama version of the "war on terror" is proving to be a disaster. In April of 2009, he moved responsibility for interrogating captured terrorists from the CIA to the FBI. A "big deal" was made of his new idea for interrogation - the HIG or High Valued Interrogation Groups. These teams were to extract information without using "torture." Talk, talk, talk. It is now June of 2010, 14 months removed from the creation of the HIG and not one team has been assembled, not one terrorist has been questioned by a HIG. "Failure" does not begin to catch the significance of this lapse. It is apparent that Obama is simply not concerned with Islam's war of terror against the United States. Of the 34 terror attacks since 9/11, 10 have occurred on Barack's watch and "luck" is the ONLY reason why hundreds of American's have not died as a result -- pure luck.
Understand that the Muslim world is not impressed by Obama. He and his deputy counterterrorism chief, an idiot named Brennan, often speak of their high regard for Islam/Palestine. Obama secured nearly one billion dollars for aid to the terrorist organization, Hamas, in the Gaza strip and Brennan sees the murderous Hizbullah as a reformed and noble player in the Middle East. And then there was that speech at the University of Cairo -- a school Brennan attended in his younger days. You cannot sell "hope" and not produce. Politically speaking, that is the path to sudden death. Obama has busied himself appeasing the Muslim community. This week, the word went out that he might be changing his course, somewhat, with regard to Israel.
Our point? A disappointed Muslim world is a dangerous circumstance. Will jihad see an increase in homeland terrorist activity because of the frustration Islam feels with regard to Obama and his changing policies ? One successful terrorist attack will put Obama and the do-nothing Dems in danger of experiencing one of the most one sided midterm elections in history.
5. If the economy moves back into a second recession at any level, that news will hurt Obama and the Dems. If unemployment numbers, for example, are on the rise come November, regardless of what they were during the summer months, the Marxist Dems and their little experiment will take a major hit in the midterms. This issue continues to poll high on the charts for Americans. They are scared and hurt and, in November, they will blame Obama for much of their problems. We have all seen polls that show Americans continue to blame Bush more than Obama for the economic crisis. The problem with this is the fact that Bush will not be on the ticket in the coming two elections (2010 and 2012).
6. A sixth consideration that will manifest itself in the coming election is the unquestioned mess Obama has made of our foreign policy. Under his watch, Iran will become a nuclear power - a tribute to Obama's misuse of diplomacy and his willingness to run and hide behind the skirts of a hapless U.N. Security Council. The American electorate will not be fooled. We have Venezuela importing Russian missiles and 5 billion dollars in Russian military aid. We have lost the allegiance of Brazil. Obama sided with the Communists in the Honduran crisis - and failed in that alliance. He wants China to solve the problems in the Korean Peninsula in spite of the fact that we have some 38,000 troops in South Korea. He has done great damage to the peace process in the Middle East. Few even understand what he trying to do in thsy circumstance.
7. We have the issue of immigration. It is a fact that Obama is refusing to enforce Federal law as it relates to border patrol. The problem is complicated by the apparent fact that Obama believes in open borders. When Arizona passed their law, the talk was that this would work against the Republicans in a big way. Just the opposite has happened. Obama can mediate this problem and lessen its effect on the coming elections, but Midknight Review does not believe he has the administrative skills to solve the problem.
8. We have the GITMO issue and his promise to close this prison down by January 22, 2010. That not only did not happen, it is becoming evident that this prison will not be closed at all. Obama's move against waterboarding has been offset by his willingness to kill terrorist via anonymous drone. In fact, it is laughable to believe that the Dems think it is more humane to kill terrorists outright rather than capture and interrogate them. The pressure on this issue will come from the radical Left.
Additional influences working against his re-election: his continuing refusal for transparency; his radical associations - a larger count than any previous president (only Hillary is as radical; Bill is nowhere close); the ever increasing count of broken promises - one wonders what he could say that would be believed; his over-exposure is beyond extreme - in just 17 months, he has made more televised appearances (national or otherwise) than any modern day president dating back to Eisenhower, and is on track to have made more such appearances during his first term than all modern day presidents combined; there is the matter of his tyranny and "thin skinned" nature in dealing with issues; his Messianic tone during the early days of his administration will be remembered ("now is the time the earth begins to cool and the oceans begin to recede; we are the ones we have been waiting for") - such talk seriously works against the man. He no longer uses such tone defaulting to the "tough guy" Chicago attitude he developed as a community revolutionary; the Afghan war is going to be a huge problem if Obama follows through with his promise to pull out of that country by July, 2011 - his generals are telling the nation, today as we write, that the job simply cannot be finished by that time. Pressure from the Left will figure in this Obama negative; his lust for driving this country into debt borders of sheer stupidity. On a ten year projection, Bush spent 3.8 trillion while Obama is on track to spend 24.6 trillion dollars; the Stimulus will been a strong memory with 58 % of the country disapproving; the biggy is the healthcare bill where public opinion for -in support of - its full repeal has grown each month since its passage and now stands at 63% in favor of repeal. Only 35% supports the reform.
Text by John Smithson
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