The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama

Although I am personally not so bold as to predict that which Peter Ferrara is predicting in today's article in The American Spectator, I respect his opinion. I find his analysis to be interesting nonetheless...

"Months ago, I predicted in this column that President Obama would so discredit himself in office that he wouldn't even be on the ballot in 2012, let alone have a prayer of being reelected. Like President Johnson (pictured above) in 1968, who had won a much bigger victory four years previously than Obama did in 2008, President Obama will be so politically defunct by 2012 that he won't even try to run for reelection.

I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it that far. I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012. Like my previous prediction, that is based not just on where we are now, but where we are going under his misleadership.

Watergate was supposed to have established that Presidents are not above the law. If that is so, President Obama may have to resign for breaking the law in the Sestak affair.

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is now the Democrat nominee for the Senate seat held far too long by Arlen Specter. President Obama induced Specter to switch parties and give the Democrats their very temporary, 60 vote, filibuster-proof majority, in return for endorsing him for reelection and promising him no opposition in the Democrat primary. But Sestak had already announced that he was running for the seat, and he refused to get out. Two week ago, Sestak defeated the unprincipled, opportunistic Specter for the Democrat nomination, continuing the perfect string of everyone who Obama endorses and campaigns for going down to defeat.

For months now, Sestak has publicly claimed that President Obama tried to keep his promise to Specter by offering him a high-ranking Administration appointment if he would get out of the race. The rumor is that Sestak, formerly an Admiral, was offered appointment as Secretary of the Navy. The problem is that a federal statute explicitly provides that it is a federal felony, punishable by up to one year in prison, to attempt to bribe a candidate with a federal job, or anything of value, to influence an election."

The article goes on to point out what can be conscrued as either incompetency or outright negligence on the part of the administration insofar as plugging an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Just where is all of this compentency we were promised? Rush Limbaugh muses...

"..a column in the New York Post today by Kirsten Powers (she of the liberal persuasion). Her column was entitled, "Where was Plan A?" and here's the pull quote from the piece: "It also shouldn't be a secret that no matter how many inspections and safety requirements you have, you can't ever completely prevent disasters like this one. If you're going to permit offshore drilling, be prepared to respond to a spill. If he promised us anything, Obama promised us competence. Instead, we've gotten the Keystone Cops." This is a body of thought that is starting to permeate throughout the political sector, including even people on the leftist side of things. There clearly has not been any federal presence here oriented toward solving the problem. There has been no "competence" on display.

There's just been a bunch of petulance, finger pointing, blaming, and demand (doing Obama impression), "Plug the damn hole! Just plug the hole," and as I pointed out yesterday: We don't have a leader here. A community agitator and organizer is not a leader. You know, everything has gotten done for Obama throughout his life. Things have been taken care of. If he's a C student in reality, he got an A or a B probably. There have been people around to take care of things. Now he's in charge, and even though he promised all this competence, we don't see any of it, and a lot of people are noticing."