Four more years? God help you lot…

“The US Department of Labor has announced that new jobless claims rose by a staggering 78,000 in the first week after the election, reaching a seasonally-adjusted total of 439,000. Over the past year, and in the weeks leading up to the election, jobless claims were said to be declining, dipping as low as 339,000, with the media proclaiming that they had reached the “lowest level in more than four years.” Now, suddenly, the news seems far less rosy…”

Yes, but OBAMA’s future is rosy and THAT is all that matters.

As the Chinese say…”Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice……” Well you know the rest…

So, America goes to the polls, and the hype rises to cosmic levels (joke). Who will win?

Does it mattter?

I hear a lot of talk of Americans electing “the most powerful man in the world” but I think that is an anachronism. The man who becomes President will become the most INDEBTED man in the world … and yet it seems this does not impact on how some will vote.  Party tribalism uber alles, baby.

The media want Obama now just as they wanted him in 2008. This time around the halo has slipped and it is now more a question of not kicking him out, yet. He has unfinished business, we are told, I am  inclined to agree. What strike me about Obama is his lack of vision, his lack of charisma, his disinterest in those poor saps who vote for him. Caveat emptor.

The unvarnished truth is that America needs to suffer much more humiliation, the astronomical debt needs to increase even further, and Islam needs appeased a bit more. Israel needs to go it alone and every ally that the US ever had needs to sweat a bit more.

Four years ago, I welcomed the election of Obama as I thought McCain was an inept opponent and I felt that putting a radical liberal in the White House might actually embolden Americans to rise up and seize the Presidency from him in 2012.

Back in 2010, I felt the Tea Party offered hope for change but it seems to have faded, or at least that is how the media portray it. And what we now see is America sleep walking into the post American era.

I am convinced Obama will win this election and therefore America loses. Perhaps the “Exceptionalism”  of this great Nation has been finally laid to rest by the ascendancy of unexpurgated liberalism to the White House. Four more years will put many more nails in the coffin.

Demographic changes also make it more and more unlikely that America can ever get back to what it once was and the new kid in town, China, is where real future power lies. Those who cheer for Obama also cheer for the end of their great Nation but self awareness tends not to be leftists strong point. So ring out the bells….and spare a thought for the decline and fall of a great nation.

Be still my beating heart;

It’s shaping up to be one of the tightest U.S. presidential elections in history. But it seem there would be one clear winner if the rest of the world were to get to vote. A poll of more than 570,000 people across the globe has revealed non-Americans want Barack Obama to remain President of the United States. Research, conducted across 36 countries outside the US, revealed 81 per cent were in favour of Obama spending another four years in office. And only 19 per cent preferred his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the findings from MSN.

I’m sure Obama is MUCH more popular than Romney with all who wish to see a weakened American giant; a crushed American spirit; a shrunken American military; a bankrupt American economy; a pro Muslim foreign policy; a even MORE dhimmified America State Department; an America which apologies for being exceptional;

Yes, if you value these things, Obama is the correct choice.  He is the perfect anti-American President so give him four more years and ensure that what is left of America THEN will be far beyond any prospect of hope and change for the better.

Well, let’s hope that next Tuesday becomes Super Tuesday and that Americans do themselves a favour and KICK OUT the most useless anti-American President since Carter set the bar low.

Obviously the rancid media want four more years of the despondency and gloom that Obama has brought to bear on the US, and their cheer leading for President Narcissus is beyond satire.

I loved the way the lefties have more or less abandoned any pretence that Obama offers “hope and change” anymore and instead it is now four years of “gloom and debt” but hey, that seems to ring their bell. That said, the US AND the civilised world cannot indulge four more years of this tiresome visionless clown from Chicago. Look at his disastrous foreign policies (Hello “Arab Spring” and Allahu Akhbar baby) look at his failure to deal with Iran; but above all…look at the National Debt. Under his gaze, the US is becoming a financial basketcase and he shows no interest in reversing this.

Obama has been hopeless in every area – that’s why he so revered in Euroweenie land. The EU looks to Obama with admiration even as it presides over economic meltdown and massive social unrest. America’s enemies look to Obama with gratitude, he grovels to them with some elan.

As for Romney; Well, he was not my first choice but he has shown spark and some fire. He walloped Obama in those debates to the chagrin of the Left. Turns out that autocue expertise only goes so far for Obama. Romney offers the very thing the deluded Left droned on about in 2008. he can bring hope in a restored America and change the mediocrity that characterises the current regime.

It’s not good enough to portray this as an election between two losers, with Obama being the slightly less loser who..aw shucks..just about deserves another four years! He doesn’t deserve four more weeks. If the US cannot be energised enough to get rid of him, it will pay an enormous price.

So, Hillary Clinton finally fesses up;

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she takes responsibility for the failure in security at the US consulate in Benghazi, where the US ambassador to Libya was killed last month. Mrs Clinton said ensuring the safety of US diplomatic staff overseas was her job, not that of the White House. It comes ahead of the second campaign debate between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Just a few comments. IF she is sincere in taking responsibility, what is the punishment she will accept? Some might conclude that this is a little political manoeuvring ahead of the second Presidential debate. But that could not be the case since it would imply that Clinton would cynically use the brutal murder of a US ambassador to try and deflect responsibility from where it REALLY lies – the White House. Right?

Romney is quite right in what he says here re Smiling Joe Biden;

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused Vice-President Joe Biden of making misleading statements on last month’s Libya consulate attack. In Thursday’s TV debate with Romney running mate Paul Ryan, Mr Biden said “we weren’t told” about requests for extra security in the country. Mr Romney said that “directly contradicted the sworn testimony of state department officials”.

So, was Biden lying or were the State Department officials lying? Truth seems to have gone missing in action..

Further to Mahons post, I wanted my say on those comments by Mitt Romney. It seems he has caused outrage by defining many Democrats for what they are;

To be fair, I agree with Mahons about Party conventions – no one should take any of them seriously! It is feel good for the faithful, empty rhetoric for the sheeple. And so it is that when we consider Bill Clinton’s speech endorsing Obama, the correct response is to grin…

Former US President Bill Clinton has delivered a prime-time defence of Barack Obama, nominating the president for a second term in the White House. His 50-minute speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, was strongly critical of Republican economic plans. He launched a full-throated defence of Mr Obama’s policies, saying his economic policies were working.

LOL – it is hilarious.  US Debt has rocketed under Obama and US unemployment remains way too high! Clinton is the man who remarked “It’s the economy, stupid” but now he is being wilfully stupid about the economy. Unchecked, US Debt to GDP will pass that achieved by Greece. Greece, with all due respect, does not matter, it is a faraway country of which we know little, to coin a phrase. But the USA IS a global powerhouse. Who will bail it out should it endure four more year of Obama?

Read Mitt Romney’s speech at GOP Florida convention and thought it was really good!

“Mr Romney vowed to create 12 million American jobs over the next four years and turn around an economy saddled with an 8.3% unemployment rate. He also pledged to make the US energy independent by 2020, cut the national deficit and negotiate new trade agreements. “I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began his presidency with an apology tour,” he said. He accused the president of having “thrown allies like Israel under the bus”, while being too lenient with Iran. ”Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty and Mr Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone,” Mr Romney said.

Excellent stuff.  Americans do have a choice. They can choose four more years of decline and debt and humiliation (as the media hopes for) OR they can try some real hope and change. Naturally this is all about rhetoric, and life is very different but to be fair to Romney he does seem to “get” the right sort of priorities and with Dirty Harry backing him, isn’t it to time to “make my day” and kick Obama OUT of power?

Interesting analysis here of Paul Ryan’s impact on the future of the US economy…

“Put simply, Ryan’s prescription is less government spending, less regulation and lower taxes.

Obama’s brand of medicine instead gives government a greater role in generating growth and shifts more of the burden of reducing the public debt the country has accumulated on to America’s wealthiest.

Republicans certainly believe it clarifies the choice Americans face in just over two months. “I’m very pleased with the nomination because it brings attention to the deficit,” said Ron Haskins, who worked in George W Bush’s administration. “Win or lose, I think the country will benefit from the debate.”

I hope so too. A successful US is good for ALL of us around the world, be it a Dem or GOP President.