The Worst President in American History?

David Williamson

I guess we have to wait until the US national debt is $10 trillion before we are no longer considered a loonie by Mr Massie?

Richard

Where is your logic? The time span is irrelevant. The patently stupid things Obama has done are the issue, yet you fail entirely to address them.

Andre

This is a quite idiotic post. What part of Sowell's analysis do you think aberrant? America stands for democracy and will suffer the Obama presidency for the next four years or until the president is impeached. Obama's attempt to reach out, albeit to the unreachable mullahs and murderers of Tehran, is laudable. What Obama does next, when the Cairo policy fails, is what should concern us. Will he neutralize Iranian nuclear weapons physically or sponsor a coup d'etat in Tehran? Is he a true leader of the free world or another left wing apparatchik creep?

OldSouth

Dear Alex: Sowell is correct to raise the alarm. He is no loony, and decades of his sober published thought should lend him the credibility to be considered seriously.

There is a complete aversion in the US toward any sort of military coup, and there are no stirrings afoot. Our military has always been under civilian control--one of the joys of our Constitution--and is barred from serving as an arm of government to enforce domestic law.

Also, blessedly, we are guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble for redress of grievances, guaranteed the right to publish our thoughts to one and all--and, most blessedly, WE have ELECTIONS on dates certain. Elections make coups unnecessary, as they are held often her. All this in black-letter text of the Constitution.

We also retain(and millions exercise) the right to bear arms, a serious counterweight to any parties who might contemplate a coup. We also maintain a volunteer military, from the local National Guard unit through the active combat units. They are all instructed that illegal orders are just that--ones that should not be obeyed, and in any case would be loathe to point their weapons at American civilians.

Rhoda Klapp

Obama seems set to run the economy on ideological lines, and that is where his disaster will be, not foreign policy. The economy, stupid!

However, it's rather too early to say, unless one has a need to get one's told-ya-so in first.

porkbelly

Another lazy post - did Thomas Sowell say anything about Obama being the worst President in history? Did the National Review call for a coup d'etat? Have they EVER called for a coup d'etat? Perhaps instead of setting up straw men to knock down you might address some of Sowell's points: is it really "loony" to be concerned about quadrupling the national debt or Iran's becoming a nuclear power? As a paid-up member of the Obama cult you have been strangely silent about Him lately.

Vern

Y'know Alex it would be really good if just for once you thought about critiquing the Democrats and their various policies, rather than just kicking the knackered shell of the Republican party over and over again. It's easy and boring and really rather pointless and everybody's doing it right now. How about having a pop at the ones in power, just for once, eh? Please? then you might get more than the usual 2-4 responses below your posts as you'd be dealing with something- er- relevant. You might even like the conversation that would open up, instead of your usual habit of speaking into the wind.

Loony

I agree with Sowell.

Vern

Actually I just reread this post and it's even worse than I at first thought- quite breathtakingly so. Go on, never mind the stuff about Iran as I know you are quite relaxed with the prospect of the mullahs having nukes - just tell us why Sowell is wrong to be concerned about Obama's spending. And then tell us how this leads to your bizarre ventriloquism about how Obama is the worst president ever and that this should necessitate a coup. Inquiring minds want to know.