The Field So Far

The economic outlook is kind of grim.  The stimulus plan hasn’t worked as well as we thought it would.  Should President Obama be worried about his reelection hopes?

Well, here’s who he seems to be contending against so far. 

Newt Gingrich:  On his third or fourth wife.  One of those wives he divorced while she was recovering from cancer surgery in order to marry his mistress.  He has explained his moral lapses by stating that he had such passion for his public service to a country that he loves so much that he lost himself in the moment.  Huh?

 Mitt Romney is back-pedaling away from his own health insurance program so vigorously that he may hurt himself.  And I mean literally physically hurt himself.

Michelle Bachmann making a speech in Iowa months ago explained that our founding fathers “worked tirelessly” to rid the nation of the horrible blight and scourge of slavery.  “John Quincy Adams worked all his life to rid this country of slavery.”  I have to give credit where it’s due, she’s right that J.Q. Adams did spend his 17 years in the House of Representatives after he was the president to change the 3/5 clause in the Constitution. But he was not one of the founding fathers.  In fact about half of the founding fathers, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson, the author of the phrase “All men are created equal” were slave holders.  She also seems to think that the first shots of the Revolution happened in New Hampshire, while in fact Lexington and Concord are in Massachusetts.

Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey just reluctantly handed over a personal check to the state treasurer to pay for the use of state police helicopters to attend his son’s high school baseball games after months of claiming that the state can’t afford to pay for police and firefighter pensions. 

John Boehner, after the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives made a speech on the steps of the Capitol, explaining that Republicans believe in a strict interpretation of the Constitution.  He then proceeded to read what he thought was the preamble to the Constitution.  It was the Declaration of Independence.  (I saw this live on CNN and what amazed me was that no Republican standing near him seemed to know the difference).

Now Sarah Palin is on her bus tour, for whatever reason.  She went to Boston today.  When asked what she and her family did today she said, and I have to paraphrase here, “Well we saw where Paul Revere hung out as a teenager which was kinda cool, ya know before he went off to warn the British that we were coming so that they would know with all the bells ringing and the gunshots that they couldn’t mess with us and take our guns away.”  Huh?  

With minds like this even I could win.  Obama has nothing to worry about.