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February 8, 2012
Obama - Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
My neighbor once told me that the Republicans possessed "a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory", which really got my attention. It stuck in there really good. Not may things do these days, but that stuck. And it's easy to understand. To grasp. They have a knack for messing things up when they should be able to get their guy into office and turn the country around.
Obama is, IMHO, the worst president in the history of the United States. He's overseen the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
But the Republicans, for whatever reason, seem completely divided and unsure of how to capitalize on this economic malaise. The party is completely divided and seems nearly incapable of producing a single candidate that the party can get behind to drive the divisive Obama from office.
But oddly, Obama seems to have a similar knack, as well. By running deficits of 100 billion dollars a month for 3 years, he's managed to hold on long enough that the economic slide appears to have slowed, at least momentarily.
But instead of hanging onto that glimmer of hope and loudly proclaiming that the worst is behind us...instead of capitalizing on that singular piece of good news, he opts for a change.
He announces that the Catholic church will have to hand out birth control. Or abort fetuses. I dunno what exactly he said, but it makes his little Christmas Tree tax look downright brilliant. He's an idiot, and he's stepped in it this time, and if he's not careful, he may end up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory come November.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 8, 2012 at 9:52 PM
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