The People have spoken. I clearly don’t agree with what they’re saying, but the incumbent won both the popular vote and the electoral vote. He won the important swing states, or, if you prefer, the well-worn cliché, the "battleground" states. He won despite 4 years of measurable incompetence. Reelected with a record 40 million people on food stamps, chronic unemployment, which now measures about 8 percent, but with discouraged workers factored in, looms several percentage points higher. Using the "dog ate my homework" guide to Chief Executive Leadership, he blamed the murder of a U.S. Ambassador and slaughters of 3 other Americans in Libya on a movie. Worse, he denied those four doomed Americans sensible protection on 9-11, in an area known to harbor all manner of Islamic terrorists.
Many think he’s lying and could face a Watergate scope type of scandal. It’s a story that would have journalists from a generation ago, tripping over themselves to get the story; expose the cover-up and take home a Pulitzer in the process.
Obama coasted to a surprisingly easy win last night, because Leo Durocher was right.
