It is now less than a year before Americans will go to the polls
and decide if they want to keep Barack Obama in the White House for
another four years. Despite the absence of a primary challenger,
with a national debt nearing $15 trillion, an unemployment rate
consistently in the 9 percent range and at least three-quarters of
Americans who believe the country is going in the
wrong direction to show for his efforts to stimulate the
economy, no incumbent President has been so vulnerable since
Herbert Hoover.
If these conditions persist or get worse, there is a very
good chance that the American electorate will give President Obama
an eviction notice from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on November 6,
2012. In which case, he will not be allowed to stay in his home
past noon on January 20, 2013. Should this come to pass we can
expect President Obama’s allies in the liberal media to assail the
verdict and cast aspersions upon the American
electorate.
To begin with, if President Obama should lose the
presidency by the narrowest of margins, we can expect accusations
of fraud and voter suppression. Liberal media outlets such as
the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Kos,and
MSNBC will be quick to question the legitimacy of a Republican
victory as they did when George W. Bush was elected in 2000 and
re-elected in 2004. It is easier for the liberal media to believe
that Republicans would plan and commit electoral fraud than to
accept the idea that the American electorate would freely choose to
vote for a Republican to highest office in the land.
Of course, such a narrative would be difficult to advance
if Obama’s loss is on the scale of Jimmy Carter in 1980. So if the
liberal media cannot credibly accuse Republicans of chicanery, they
will more than gladly accuse them and the people who voted for them
of racism. Specifically, they will lay the blame at the feet of Tea
Party activists who have long been accused of hating having a black
man in the White House. Such accusations have no foundation in fact
and are incredibly stupid when you consider the level of Tea Party
support for Herman Cain. These accusations would look even more
stupid if Republicans were to
nominate Cain and if the American people subsequently elected
him our 45th President.
But let’s not underestimate the capacity of the liberal
media when it comes to chutzpah.
If Obama were to lose to Cain, the liberal media would
trot out the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Harry
Belafonte, Jr. to reinforce the notion that Cain is not one of
their own and is nothing more than a black man who makes white
people comfortable with their prejudices. In other words, if
Republicans nominate Cain they are doing so because they are racist
and if Republicans don’t nominate Cain it is also because of
racism. Yet the notion that the American electorate is suddenly
racist four years removed from electing Barack Obama is morally
bankrupt. Not that it will impede the liberal media from trading in
such insolvent ideas. Of course, it would never occur to the
liberal media that the American people have repudiated Obama not
because he is black but because he failed to keep us in the
black.
With an electorate that is demanding a balanced budget,
the repeal of Obamacare, and a more limited role for the federal
government, if Obama should lose we can expect the liberal media to
echo Michelle Obama during the 2008 campaign when she
complained that America was “just downright mean.” Should
voters be less than kind to her husband in a year’s time, the
liberal media will use every spare moment to remind us of how mean
we are when they’re not reminding us that we’re a bunch of frauds
and racists.
Yet where is the compassion in saddling future generations
with unsustainable debt? Where is the generosity in increasing the
cost of health care? Isn’t inciting envy and resentment towards
those who achieved financial success an act of meanness? And where
is President Obama’s civility towards his political adversaries
when he
accuses them of desiring dirtier air, dirtier water, and fewer
people with health insurance?
Such a cavalier disposition demonstrates that President
Obama and those who support him are treating the Office of
President of the United States as if it were an entitlement. On the
contrary, it is an office that must be earned and the American
electorate is under no obligation to keep the occupant inside the
Oval Office should he seek a second term. When Barack Obama was
elected President three years ago, he presented himself not only as
someone best suited to take on the challenges facing America but as
someone who could calm oceans. Needless to say, Obama was elected
with the highest of expectations. Should Obama fail to be
re-elected next year he will have only himself to blame for failing
to address our challenges and for being unable to walk on water.
Well, no second coming, no second term.
