Why President Obama Does Not Deserve A Second Chance

Obama’s Gotta Go -- Niall Ferguson, The Daily Beast

Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope.

I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the apotheosis of Barack Obama. You would not be human if you failed to acknowledge this as a cause for great rejoicing.”

Despite having been—full disclosure—an adviser to John McCain, I acknowledged his opponent’s remarkable qualities: his soaring oratory, his cool, hard-to-ruffle temperament, and his near faultless campaign organization.

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My Comment: Tim Stanley at The Telegraph provides a good rebuttal to Niall Ferguson`s commentary (that link is here). As to what is my take .... history is my thing, and Niall Ferguson is a historian that I admire tremendously. But in this commentary he fails to deliver a short and precise analysis on why President Obama does not deserve a second term .... he elaborates too much, losing the message with his explanations. The facts are already there .... continued high unemployment, high deficits, low economic growth, and the prospect of even greater taxes when Obama-care is implemented .... all that Niall Ferguson needs to do is list them and remind the readers of what President Obama promised in 2008 .... and then let the numbers do the talking.