Yes, Barack Obama is the first black president. He is more African-American than most other African-Americans. He cannot claim any affiliation to slavery.
He is also the first President to fire a Chief Executive Officer of a corporation, order companies to divest of certain operations, make the government major owners of publicly traded companies, tell executives of other companies how much they can make, and basically try to micromanage the economy. The last president who did that, Jimmy Carter, made things worse. Every president who has tried to micromanage the economy made it worse.
This president is attempting to take us down the road to Socialism. What gets me are the number of Democrats who did not see this coming. I have spoken to several former Obama supporters who told me this is not what they thought they were getting. I met a gentleman, a union worker, who was scraping the Obama/Biden bumper sticker off his car. He told me that the President's policies cost him his job and his home. WOW!
At the end of his first 100 days, Obama's approval ratings were lower than any other president in the history of American political polling. He is still dropping. When Pres. Bush left office last January, 3 out of 10 Americans believed he did a good job. At the rate Pres. Obama is declining he will be half of that by the end of his term.
Many conservatives already are predicting just one term for him. They believe that the disgust for Pres. Bush will have subsided. However, if the Republicans do not nominate a truly conservative candidate in 2012 then there will be no hope to defeat him anyway.
There were plenty of truly conservative candidates but they were all deemed "unelectable." As it turned out, the Republican nominee, John McCain, was unelectable anyway. The Republicans need to tighten up on their nominating process. Or, better yet, get out of the way of the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. They both know how to find some really qualified conservative candidates.
