[Strangelet]

I think he's goneski. Especially if the US enters a period of hyper-inflation, destruction of the dollar, and 20% unemployment, as some economists are predicting to occur by the end of his first term.

And even if that isn't the case, the health care push was such an embarrassment to the democrats that even if he does squeak by the fox news annointed candidate, he'll have a fraction of the creditability and a fraction of the coalition in the legislature that he enjoyed starting his first term.

Its all very sad because he had such a base of support starting out that he could have painted the white house pink and no one would have been able to stop him. And even if someone tried, he could have just gone back to his voter base and pointed a finger at his antagonists and they would have been political toast. That was the mandate. It was not desired he turn washington into a bon fire party on the beach where everyone gets invited and he brings his guitar.

I don't imagine anyone anytime soon entering the presidency enjoying the same privilege as what he just squandered.

I won't be voting for him because of the stimulus. And its not that I don't buy into keynes, its that I see a huge difference between investment and bailout.

It really makes me wonder who was more wrong, the american voters or obama, but definitely something important got miscommunicated in terms of expectations. I personally was looking for something that resembled "change".