Current Events and the Re-Election of Barack Obama

Current events this week are decidedly negative for Barack Obama.  Chicago teachers, whose students' performance on test scores are abysmal, and who already earn an average of $76,000 per year, went on strike for more pay and benefits.  How good are Chicago teachers?  According to Philly.com:

Common sense says there should be some link between compensation and job performance. But the very idea tends to make teachers unions recoil like Dracula confronted with a garlic clove. And so Chicago teachers are picketing schools where only 60 percent of the students graduate and less than 8 percent of 11th graders met all the college-readiness benchmarks on state tests last year.

Further, the Dept. of Education says that 79% of Chicago 8th graders are not proficient in reading.

Meanwhile, there is an open feud between America and Israel, Obama is on track to have the worst job record since World War II, mobs storm our embassies in Libya and Egypt and kill some of our people, gas prices are at an all-time high (I paid $4.62 this morning and it cost $62.50 to fill my tank), and Barack Obama hasn't a clue what to do about it all.

Oh yes, let's re-elect Obama!  We NEED another four years like the last.  NO WONDER the polls are so close!

That last paragraph was sarcasm in case you missed it.

The Devastating Consequences of an Obama Win

Michael Medved tells how an Obama win next month will adversely affect the nation and the political scene for a generation to come.

He argues that the sweeping changes that Obama will make will be nearly impossible to reverse by subsequent Republican administratios. He writes:

That’s the biggest threat of an Obama presidency: the creation of vast new groups of dependent Americans who will comprise an unassailable new coalition that will enjoy iron control of our politics for a generation or more. If you start with newly legalized immigrant voters (with as many as 10 million new Democrats totally beholden to Obama and company) and then add the beneficiaries of government pre-school, the new nursery school teachers, the recipients and administrators of federal health insurance, federal college grants, the businesses who’ll enjoy the $150 billion in promised subsidies for “alternative energy,” the companies and employees of the vast increases in “infra-structure” spending (lots more bridges to nowhere), the non-tax payers who will suddenly receive a $1,000 per household check (under the guise of “refundable tax credit,” and many, many more.

In his first years in office, a President Obama could easily succeed in buying so many interest groups and constituencies with expensive new governmental favors, that conservative dreams of rebuilding a small government majority will go absolutely nowhere.

Read it all here.

If this be true, than perhaps the concept of secession should be revisited. And when those states who choose this route leave the union, they can honestly say, "We didn't leave the USA - it left us."