Is Obama the worst president ever?
BY HUGH HEWITT | AUGUST 25, 2013 AT 5:15 PM
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep
your health care plan." — President Obama, Aug. 11, 2009
So said President Obama again and again through 2009 and
2010 as he sold Obamacare to the
country. He promised. He put his personal integrity on
the line. His word.
How many UPS employees voted for the president in 2008
and again in 2012? Because on Friday, UPS announced it was dumping 15,000 spouses of UPS employees
from their UPS health plans despite the president's many, many promises to the contrary.
The UPS spouse-dump followed by a few days the news from
New Jersey that Obamacare's rollout there will end the low-cost,
high-deductible plan that more than 106,00 Jersey folks liked and which presumably
many of them would have preferred to keep.
Oh, and the cost of individual plans are set to rise on
average 41 percent in Ohio, and another major insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross, has pulled out of
the California market for small businesses.
Let a thousand stink bombs go kaboom. Obamacare is the train wreck that just keeps
arriving on an ever-more prolonged schedule.
Most Mainstream Media refuse to catalogue the
consequences of the epic bill that went unread when it was passed without a single Republican vote in 2009. Most
journalists just avert their eyes.
But now that that the bodies of hundreds of gassed Syrian
children are piling up in Damascus and
scores of Christian churches are burned-out shells in
Egypt, it is getting harder and harder to find
anything to write about the president that doesn't
underscore his incompetence.
Obama's tenure is a
vast desert of anti-achievement, a landscape of waste and ruin on every front
at home and abroad, save
on the ability to mobilize voters who don't know or don't care about the state of the country or the
world.
The president rolled
to re-election on the strength of technologies that enabled his minions to tap
and turn out folks who
simply are clueless that that nice fellow in the White House hasn't the
foggiest idea of how to run the
country.
Perhaps by the time you read this, the president will
have ordered a few cruise missiles to fall on
Damascus, and the anti-Sisi rhetoric will have been toned
down in recognition that the general running Egypt is likely to be there far longer than the president
is living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But the prospect of 39 more months of the anti-president
at the helm is daunting. No plans for anything except bus tours and college campus speeches, no
idea how to invigorate a sputtering economy or trim a bloated budget.
Just miles and miles to go before we can all sleep
without the prospect of seeing him the next day, yet again, making another meaningless speech or
filibustering another softball question from a kept White House press.
Many will argue that Stanley Baldwin was the worst of the
modern British Prime Ministers, though a few remonstrate half-heartedly for Edward Heath, but Heath
did not leave his country vulnerable to war and direct attack that killed hundreds of thousands.
Since 1979 and the acquiescence of the transfer of Iran
to religious zealots with world-enders and Hidden Imam-summoners among them, I didn't think it was
possible for an American president to be ranked below Jimmy Carter on the competence list.
But now we have Obama, with double the years that Carter
had to more than double the wreckage of the Carter era. Obama is working on his place in history
every day, and every day he is making that ranking more secure.
HUGH HEWITT, Washington Examiner columnist, is a law
professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio show host who
blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.
Web URL: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2534688
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