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He has peered into the near future, and the news is not good

January 26, 2010 in Politics

For those of us who tend to be cautiously optimistic about the human condition and about the future, reading this article is a rather bracing experience, like a bucket of cold water. Just about every paragraph contains an item of bad news. Politically speaking, the bad news falls mainly on the Democrats, which may mean good news in the longer run for the country. But, however much Schadenfreude one might enjoy over the predicament of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi gang, they’re just politicians who are (other than the potential ego-deflating electoral defeat) rather insulated from the plague they visit on the rest of us. And therein lies the problem. To produce political misery for the Democrats, the rest of us have to suffer economically and in the ways we run our everyday lives. After all, the disaster that is Obama/Reid/PelosiCare will affect us in a concrete way, to the detriment of our economic and personal well-being. I’d rather the country be spared this misery, even if it meant that the political reckoning for the inevitable overreaching by the Democrats is postponed a few years.

I found Barack Obama’s evasive response to Diane Sawyer’s question about being a one-term president rather telling. I don’t think that he will forego another run, and I still think he will be re-elected, though the odds have come down from 90% to about 60% in the last several months. But I think that he is not enjoying the job. Being President is different from running for the position. With his agenda in disarray, he appears more detached than ever.

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