At the close of today’s election
in Massachusetts,
we’ll know just what kind of cat Barack Obama really is.
The seat up for grabs belonged to
the “liberal lion” Ted Kennedy. After
his inauguration last year, Barack Obama looked like a lion himself, many
believing him powerful enough to move people with his words, to get whatever he
wanted.
But like a cat with his back up,
Obama may have just looked bigger than he really is.
Over the past year the power of
Obama’s words on his teleprompter were put to the test, and repeatedly he
failed.
On January 22, 2009, Obama issued
an order closing Guantanamo
Bay in one year (how’s
that working out?). The lion shrunk to a
jaguar.
He promised to remove all troops
from Iraq
in 15 months. By that he meant 19 months. This of course is an obvious
statement of “whenever.” Maybe he’s the
size of a leopard.
He took over General Motors in
May. It went Bankrupt in June. Obama seemed no bigger than a panther.
In October Obama went to Copenhagen to convince the Olympic Committee to bring the
games to Chicago. They told our ferocious bobcat of a President
“no.”
In December he spoke at the Copenhagen climate change
conference and came home empty handed (wow!
Stay out of Copenhagen!). Nice job, tabby.
Today comes Massachusetts’ election for Ted Kennedy’s
former Senate seat. The task of electing
a Democrat there should have been easy, since a Republican hasn’t held office
in that seat since World War II.
Obama campaigned in person for
Democrat Martha Coakley. There are
currently no Senators and no Congresspersons who are Republican in Massachusetts. The
northeast is the most Democrat place in the country. If President Obama can’t deliver a Democrat
there, he truly is a paper tiger.
