Why Obama Should Withdraw... Or Should He???

by: Les Carpenter
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Returning late from a visit with family in upstate New York this weekend my first stop was to visit the Left Coast Rebel, something I highly recommend to all who frequent Rational Nation USA.

As usual LCR cut to the chase exposing the current occupant of the oval office for the dismal failure {not unlike GWB} he has turned out to be.

The mega Leviathan socialistic cures he has applied to the problems of the USA's economy in the hope of curing it's ills have proven to be abject failures. Failures not unlike the those witnessed by many socialist countries.

It goes without further commentary that on the field of economics and business management Barrack Hussein Obama has the intelligence, experience, and ability of a Fidel Castro, Mao Tse Tung, or Hugo Chavez. Which is quite disconcerting to say the least.

The foregoing aside the real issue of most urgency, and the one LCR addresses, is whether BHO ought to save the nation from another tortuous campaign and withdraw allowing some other democrat {presumably better equipped to handle the nations economic woes} to emerge and carry the democrats banner.

Certainly there is viable rationale as to the benefits of the POTUS making such a decision. From the Chicago Tribune...

His approval rating is at its lowest level ever. His party just lost two House elections — one in a district it had held for 88 consecutive years. He's staked his future on the jobs bill, which most Americans don't think would work.

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But there is good news for the president. I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013.

That might be the sensible thing to do. It's hard for a president to win a second term when unemployment is painfully high. If the economy were in full rebound mode, Obama might win anyway. But it isn't, and it may fall into a second recession — in which case voters will decide his middle name is Hoover, not Hussein. Why not leave of his own volition instead of waiting to get the ax?

It's not as though there is much enticement to stick around. Presidents who win re-election have generally found, wrote John Fortier and Norman Ornstein in their 2007 book, "Second-Term Blues," that "their second terms did not measure up to their first."

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If he runs for re-election, Obama may find that the only fate worse than losing is winning. But he might arrange things so it will be Clinton who has the unenviable job of reviving the economy, balancing the budget, getting out of Afghanistan and grappling with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Obama, meanwhile, will be on a Hawaiian beach, wrestling the cap off a Corona. {Read the Full Story}

Given the above one thought comes to mind. Those of us who believe in limited effective Constitutional government ought to be 1) supporting the candidate that best exemplifies a true understanding of our constitution and the benefits of limited government, and 2) hope that the failure that has occupied the Oval Office for the past thirty two months decides to try his hand at failing again.

2012 may well be the opportunity of a generation to reform government in the mold intended by our founding fathers. Whether the nation succeeds in grasping this historic opportunity rests entirely on who the country selects as the next president, as well as who it elects to the next congress.

I assure you neither Rick Perry nor Mittens Romney are leaders who understand and believe in limited constitutional government. If this nation is to return to the rational principle of limited constitutional government it must reject both the current occupant of the Oval Office as well as the big government GOP candidates that merely offer a different, yet just as dangerous a Leviathan as the Dems offer the nation.

There are choices. Americans must focus on the candidate(s) that truly represent an understanding of limited constitutional government and have a track record which demonstrates their commitment to these principles.

Failing that prepare for different variations of the same big brother/sister Leviathan that has us in the shape we are in today.

Via: Memeorandum