Obama's Armegeddon

Yes, it’s just two weeks to the midterm election. The pundits, including the Democrats are falling all over themselves predicting disaster for the President. Some of my faithful blog readers will recall what I wrote during the campaign. High Expectation’s would do Obama in. I warned that Obama will chill out once he hits that cement wall of Republican opposition to anything he would propose. Back then I thought he was completely naive regarding his ability to reach out across the isle to his opposition. Man did he ever get smacked right in the puss trying that reaching out routine. What he got was a resounding NO NO NO. So, what’s at work here?

If I were a few years back from these 93 years I would love to go sit in some blue collar beer joints and listen to what the guys have to say about the man in the White House. I was doing that some years ago when Tiger Woods was first doing those holes in one that blew the golfers away. “God damn now the f------- niggers are about to take over the last of the white mans sports. Aren’t we gonna have nothin left for areselves?” I have a hunch if I returned to any of those bars now I again would hear what is underneath all this, “mad as hell and I ain’t gonna take it anymore” stuff. “Give us our country back” is the password phrase, translated means, “get that Black man out of our White House.” Then we’ll have our country back.

Of course we all know that much of the anger and unrest is about the economic mess we are in. However the GOP right wing has used that anger to turn it against their enemy of the moment, The President. Of course Obama has not done at all what he should have. Some argue that is the reason for the unrest.

1. He didn’t frame the fight with his enemies in a way that people could understand what he was trying to do. 2. He kept hoping that somehow or other his reaching across the aisle might payoff. Remember that disgraceful wooing of the two ladies form Maine?

3. He failed to put into simple terms exactly what he was trying to do. Even today no one in this administration has made a clear simple explanation of how the Medical Insurance Plan will benefit the average citizen. 4. Obama seemed unable to speak directly to the young voters who elected him in order to enlist their support for what he was trying to do.

5. The man who had been a Community Organizer forgot a guiding principle. “An organizer must always make absolutely sure his supporters understand the strategy for successful organizing.” The administration simply failed to do that. Now they will pay the price for that failure.

The outcome of the election will not signify the beginning or end of anything. What it probably do is embolden the crazies. Those are the right wingnuts, Glenn Beck will keep rousing people “to arms” against the “socialists” in the White House. That can become a very dangerous time in our history. It reminds me only to clearly how the Fascists back in the thirties turned the anger in Europe into their anti-Semitic crusades. It was all the fault of the Jews.

In Arizona right now the economic mess is becoming all the fault of the illegal Mexicans. In a sense it’s as if any handy scapegoat will do. Just as long as we don’t want to take a hard look at who were the people responsible for the economic meltdown? It sure as hell wasn’t the Mexicans looking for work in Arizona. Yeah, but it’s a lot easier to go after them than it is to go after the Hedge Fund jockeys who enriched themselves on mortgages that half the people who bought them could not, by any definition pay for them.

This is where we will find ourselves in a couple of weeks. It will just mean some more fighting to keep the rightwing nuts from further destroying the country. Do they have any solutions to the problems before us? Of course not. That’s why we need to keep working to come up with ideas that will address the real issues that we are confronted with. Namely, unemployment, foreclosures, decline of manufacturing, those endless wars, and the increasing discrepancy in how our wealth is distributed. This sure is a mouthful. Well. it’s better than despair.