Just another alienated country
It's not just foreigners Barack Obama has managed to alienate. The president who came to office a year ago amid universal adulation that almost amounted to worship now has the lowest approval rating of any president in history at this point in his administration.
My conviction that the 2008 election was going to be one of those "poison pill" contests (1928, 1976 and 1988 also come to mind) in which a predictable combination of circumstances would doom the winner, regardless of his identity or party, to be a one-term president seems to be panning out. People are no longer willing to listen when Obama and the Democrats trash George W. Bush as a way of avoiding responsibility for the events that take place on Mr. Obama's watch. It had to happen: at long last, Barack Obama is being held accountable by the American people for his own record.
My conviction that the 2008 election was going to be one of those "poison pill" contests (1928, 1976 and 1988 also come to mind) in which a predictable combination of circumstances would doom the winner, regardless of his identity or party, to be a one-term president seems to be panning out. People are no longer willing to listen when Obama and the Democrats trash George W. Bush as a way of avoiding responsibility for the events that take place on Mr. Obama's watch. It had to happen: at long last, Barack Obama is being held accountable by the American people for his own record.
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