Incomplete?

Yes, I am back.  No more enlightened than before and certainly not additionally inspired or inspiring, but here just the same.  Apparently things have deteriorated horribly in my absence as politics have In the middle of this cesspool of a presidential campaign I can no longer hold my tongue.  But I will be brief.

President Obama, otherwise a fine family man, is a trainwreck of a President.  He has no discernable leadership skills other than to amass political accolades.  What he doesn't realize, and what most others also don't seem to realize, is that he was swept into office riding a tidal wave of White Guilt and desire to be a part of an historical first.  He gave a good speech but had no new ideas, no concrete agenda to get America out of the economic abyss into which it had sank in 2009.  No one seemed to notice this.  No one heard him hammer away at government controlled health care as his number-one job if elected.  But he didn't win in '08 on his ideas.  He won because he gave folks a chance to get a cut of history and absolve themselves of racial self-loathing.

Well we got what we paid for.  Nothing has been done that a junior economics major could identify as progress toward righting the ship of commerce.  Not one thing.  And the Obama team knows it and doesn't dare claim that you're better off now than four years ago.  (Notice how fast that has disappeared out of the news cycle?)  But we do have a minority president.  And he DID tell the Seals to take out Bin Ladin, but much time was spent at the Democratic Convention spiking the ball about this.  After the behavior of the Libyans, Egyptians, and other nations' radicals this past ten days, I'd guess they were a little to smug about it.

Here comes Romney/Ryan, squeaky-clean and indeed full of specifics to help the economy.  If you missed them, they were well-covered at the convention.  Are they tying the can of failure to Obama's tail?  No, they aren't, and that's what they should be doing every day.  Remind people who aren't radical Democrats that--Hell NO-- they are not better off than four years ago and are losing ground every month.  It's that simple.  But they're spending precious time trying to tell us how much better they'll be, which is a waste.  They need to fire point-blank away at Obama's lack of leadership.

This election is not about Mitt Romney.  It's a referendum on Obama.  On how he led a friendly congress to ram a questionable health care act through committees and into votes without any debate, critical examination or dialogue which the Democrats would have howled over had this happened to them.  But it didn't and a friendly press has covered their backs all the way.  It's a referendum on four years of neglect of the economy, which that friendly congress would have helped the President repair any way he wanted.  But then it's a referendum on his in-denial stimulus program that spent untold billions, accomplishing only a laundering of borrowed Chinese money much of which found its way to Obama coffers.  (Remember Solyndra, and the other "Green" failings?)   It's a referendum on the Obama Blame America First Apology tour.  This is Barack Obama's report card.

He says he gets an Incomplete.  I say he needs to change his major. 

As usual the Democrats have only the old, hackneyed ideas to offer:  more money for education, raise taxes on the rich, cut military spending, increase entitlement spending, yada, yada, yada.  As usual, they operate politics of personal destruction, attacking the candidates themselves as well as their issues.  All kinds of insulting websites and Facebook pages are in full Blue-State vogue, as only the Democrats can do.  I am sure there are at least a few Republican counter parts but they just aren't good at this. 

That's enough.  Maybe this wasn't as brief as it should have been.  I just had to get this out in the open.  Sometimes the 300-pound gorilla in the middle of the room has to be pointed out to your dinner guests.