Election PostMortem

I was as  disappointed—no, angry, deeply, deeply angry—about Obama’s re-election as anyone. I couldn’t sleep that night. There have been many postmortems about Romney’s campaign:  what he did wrong, whom he didn’t appeal to, why he couldn’t connect.  I do think many people had trouble connecting with someone so different--rich, never drinks coffee or a beer, an odd religion that many think is cultic. (I really wonder if he believes all the Mormon doctrine or just stays in it for family reasons.)  But the bottom line is that Obama spent the last 18 months, or maybe four years, appealing to groups to get him re-elected.  He has done nothing for the country; he’s a joke as a presidential leader.  Now all the crises are confronting him because he didn’t deal with them. 

Obama is not like any president we’ve had before, and I don’t mean racially.  He is far more left-wing and unabashedly appears to have no interest in following the constitution.  I am not sure when the American people are going to wake up. 

Some say he was re-elected because he gave people stuff.  I don’t think it’s stuff; he gave people “rights” they think they should have and some of these rights are the power to not be held responsible for their actions.  It’s a failure in the American people of morality, not work ethic.  I think most people still want to work hard and make money and don’t want government largesse.  But they do want the government to give them rights and privileges they didn’t traditionally have.  The ability to enter the country without impunity (although he has deported many people, the borders aren't secure).  Gay marriage.  Smoking pot.