Well, the unemployment rate could drop to 4.6 by September. Porcine aviators could make a landing on the Potomac. Space aliens could arrive with gifts for all from our admirers on Cygnus-V.

That last reason doesn’t look so good anymore now that Obama has called Cambridge police stupid based on his own racial attitude.

His domestic agenda is poisonous; he brings to the table all the terrible left-wing ideas which have gotten previous Democrat nominees badly beaten in presidential elections of the past, and what’s worse he’s attempted to pass them down the throats of the American peopel without even allowing for public scrutiny of the legislation which brought them on.

His foreign policy is the worst of any American president in the modern age. He telegraphs weakness to our enemies, he insults our friends and he abandons well-established national interests like the promotion of the rule of law (see the mess in Honduras and our disgraceful role in it, for example, or our tepid endorsement of the pro-freedom rebellion in Iran – the best opportunity for regime change in 30 years in our most dangerous enemy in the world).

And now, with the colossal Cambridge PD gaffe, Obama has reopened the racial divide between himself and 60 percent of the population. That divide has aways been there, but it’s been papered over by the DNC Propaganda machine since the Rev. Wright stuff came out. Conventional wisdom 16 months ago was that the Wright business would likely sink Obama, and he survived it thanks to the incompetence of his challengers – but the more mistakes like this Obama makes the more average Americans will see a pattern. And patterns, once perceived, are extremely difficult to overcome.

If anybody can tell me where Obama has an opportunity to reverse his current slide, let me know what I’m missing. I see a failed presidency in the making which will make Jimmy Carter look like Andrew Jackson.

Sad to say, but they also choose friends who are of the same behavior. And then they claim that “well, everybody does this!” as a defense. It’s my hardhearted purpose in life to see how much of that kind of thinking I can change before it ruins the next generation.

To liberals, America has no enemies. Only countries we’ve yet to apologize to.

Nixon’s the one.

Personally, I disgree with “intelligent man with a sharp mind” – his utter lack of coherent thoughts, speech, and principles wedded to inarticulate and fumbling off-TOTUS speaking belies any nimble mind, quickwittedness or intellectual coherence. About the only thing revealed, when he is off-script and off-TOTUS, is his id in control and regurgitating his true Marxist and viciously anti-American philosophy. Those snakes are the only “coherent” things in his head.

Even the gullible and foolish are starting to notice.

His reply was not what I expected. He said that most Asians that he’s spoken to overseas perceive Obama to be weak and naive. In many Asian cultures, apologizing is a sign of weakness. Excessive apologizing is a confirmation of incompetence as a leader. They’ve never seen a leader (Free-world or dictator) apologize for his own country so often during their tenure, let alone such a short one. I was shocked but I concurred.

I told him that most of our national press coverage reports that Obama is liked abroad so his remarks were surprising to me. His answer to that was even more profound. He said “Just because people like you doesn’t mean they respect or fear you. There are millions in South Korea and Japan who are very worried about his handling of Kim Jong Il’s antics. There are also millions of Taiwanese who are none too thrilled about the your President’s cowtowing and compromising with China to buy American debt. If China ever decides to annex Taiwan, America will be economically powerless and diplomatically powerless to stop them. These concerns are real in that region of the world and Obama is either too ignorant or stubborn to acknowledge them.”

I asked what he thought of Obama. He replied, “He’s an intelligent man with a sharp mind but I think he’ll prove to be an awful President. I think Americans voted with their hearts instead of their heads and they will pay a heavy price for that soon. Polls indicate that most Americans like Obama personally but don’t like his job performance. That’s not a very practical approach to policy. No offense but I think many Americans have confused charisma with true leadership skills. And if Asians are anything, they are pragmatic. To put it another way, I love my 17-yr.-old daughter with all my heart, but I know better than to give her the keys to a city bus (at least until I she proved capable). Believe me when I tell you that my opinion of Obama is not the rare exception.”

So there you have it RedState. You are not as alone overseas as you thought you were.

Nothing like lies of both commission and omission to get the job done.