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“Hey, did you get that thing I sent you?”

With the overwhelming popularity of e mail as our main form of communication the above quote is probably used more on daily basis than a Mexican Diner’s restroom.

My e mail inbox is usually filled with forwarded tidbits of political humor and commentary.  One such e mail I received recently from a number of friends concerns an article written by Dr. Geoffrey P. Hunt which was posted on the American Thinker web site.  Dr. Hunt is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the principle investigator on three National Institute on Health projects.

The essay he wrote for American Thinker is titled “Another Failed Presidency”.  Having visited the web site myself I can attest to the fact that the piece is indeed posted and attributed to the above mentioned author.

The post begins with “Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.”   It goes on to compare Obama to another notable complete presidential failure, Jimmy Carter, as well as some of the failings of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.  Dr. Hunt goes on to quote likeminded pundits such as the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz, Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard and Clarice Feldman from the American Thinker.  Each in their own way detail why they think Barack Hussein Obama is, after only one year in office, already a massive failure.

Those familiar with my past writings will know that I have no problem condemning the socialist community organizer who currently resides in the White House.  I abhor just about everything he is trying to do to our once free nation.  But in order to call him a “failure” I think it is important that we first define it.

Perhaps it is just my overactive cynicism gland or my proclivity for reality, but I truly believe if you look deep into the self-absorbed mind of Barack Obama you will find that he has been successful at doing exactly what he set out to do.

The goal of the presidency of Barack Obama is the presidency of Barack Obama.  This youthful, attractive, dark skinned man of half black decent came bursting onto the national political scene with less than a gnat’s life of useful experience.  He spent over two years and hundreds of millions of dollars leading the chant of intentionally ambiguous catch phrases, allowing each devoted follower to create his or her own definition for the mantra.  With a smooth and measured tempo he read his ghost-authored speeches with a feigned sincerity not seen on the public stage since Bill Clinton assured us that he did not have sexual relations with a chubby devotee.   The campaign was brilliantly coached from the sidelines by his Chicago political advisors, Obamamania caught fire and the rest is truly history.

But that was the goal.  Getting this first black president to be the first black president was the only goal.  Democrats, even those who ran against him, jumped on board the Obama Express to try to ride his ever-lengthening coattails to victory.  And they were correct.  With his success came widespread electoral success for the Democrat Party in both Houses of Congress.

To judge the dismal failure of everything that has happened since that fateful 2008 election by the historic standard of what is best for the country is moot.  The trillion dollar spending spree Congress embarked upon as soon as they were sworn in was never meant to stimulate anything.  It was meant to pay back supporters and hijack tax payer dollars for Democrat pet projects.  Success.  The closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility was never intended to make the country safer.  It was intended to be a political payback to the left wing that supported the Democrat ticket and hated anything to do with George Bush.  Success.  The current ObamaCare healthcare debacle being debated in the Senate has nothing to do with improving healthcare or even providing insurance to the uninsured.  Its sole purpose is to create an even deeper dependence on the federal government for our physical wellbeing thus locking even more Americans into the never-ending bondage of socialistic slavery.  Success?  I hope not, but from every indication it too will pass.

While it pains me to say it, for what he set out to do, Barack Obama has been a complete success because it is not the result of his actions that are most important to him but the actions themselves.  The failure has been on the part of a naïve voting public who bought into the dream of undefined Hope and Change without ever asking what it meant or what the results would look like.

 But the 2010 midterm election is coming.  We don’t have to fail again.