This President should be beatable. But the real Republican contender won’t get in the ring for another five years
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By rights, Barack Obama should be on the ropes. After what he himself described as a ‘shellacking’ in the midterm elections, he was given a mandatory count and still managed to stay on his feet. That ‘hopey-changey thing’ hasn’t worked out as advertised. America’s debt mountain is of Himalayan proportions. Last weekend, Washington was on the brink of a government shutdown as Obama’s government and Congress traded punches over budget cuts. Half the country hates Obama’s nationalised healthcare plan with a medieval vengeance.
It gets worse. His promise to shut Club Gitmo has been shelved indefinitely.
His plans to try 9/11 mastermind Sheikh Khaled Mohammed as a common criminal in New York had to be abandoned. His mission to reach out to the Islamic world has belly-flopped. The Middle East is in turmoil, the Muslim Brotherhood on the march in Egypt, Iran is still on course to go nuclear and the President was seen to dither hopelessly over Libya.
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