Thanks to a
half black man from Hawaii who had ties to my old stomping grounds in Chicago,
I managed to put a pair of wins on the board in 2008 and 2012, pushing my
overall record to a passable 5-7 in Presidential elections.
Barack Obama had a name that was
virtually impossible to elect at that point in history in the United States of
America. It just sounded too much like Osama bin Laden, the most hated man in
the country because of his involvement as mastermind in the deadly 9/11 attacks
in 2001. But miracle of miracles, it turned out that the USA was sick and tired
of Republican bullshit after eight years of Bush/Cheney criminal activity and
so the voters turned their collective backs on the new GOP candidate, former Vietnam
War hero and POW John McCain and his dingbat running mate, former Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin.
Obama surprised us all with his
intelligence, sense of humor and overall general bearing. Face it, this guy was
really cool. He could sing, he could dance, he had a beautiful wife and a pair
of lovely daughters. This was the guy you wanted to have the ball at the end of
the game, down by one, ten second left, because you just knew he’d make the
shot.
He inherited a country in total shambles
and when he went to work to right the course, he was met by an obstructionist political
party that just couldn’t accept the fact that a majority of voters selected
something other than an old white man to be POTUS, something they had done continuously,
election after election, for over 200 years.
GOP Senator and closet racist
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky stated point blank that the goal of the Republican
party would be to see that Obama was a failure and that he was defeated in the
next election. Understand dear reader that their goal was not to find and
develop beneficial programs to aid U.S. citizens, their goal was to hinder any
and all progress in the recovery of the nation because, …. well, …. Goddammit, look
at him, he ain’t white!! He’s a you-know-what!! GOP House of Representative
leader John Boehner echoed these sentiments like a good little puppy and
anything and everything done by Obama and the Democratic Party to make life
better for U.S. citizens was met with a negative response by the GOP from day
one. Never in the history of the Republic has a POTUS been treated with such
contempt and disrespect by members of the government. At times, it has been
both embarrassing and shameful to witness.
Their efforts failed miserably
in 2012 when Obama defeated a famous and revered GOP darling, the fabulously
wealthy Mormon Mitt Romney and with that defeat, efforts were renewed tenfold
to make America under the Obama administration an abject failure. At times,
this reached the point of treason. However, in spite of all the obstructionism,
the first seven years under the current leadership has been highly successful
and recovery from the disastrous previous administration has made great
strides. These last few months in office will, indeed, prove interesting and
entertaining because Obama has made it perfectly clear to his critics and
opponents at this point that they can just kiss his ass. Get ready for some dandy Executive orders.
I find that I don’t agree with
the guy about everything that he’s done, or not done, but we agree about a lot.
In fact, he’s my choice as the best POTUS of my lifetime.
So, with all this background now
in the books, we can begin to spend some time examining the upcoming 2016 election
which promises to be among the strangest of all time.
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