Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
Do you ever feel its Déjà vu all over again? I certainly do… I feel it’s a return to the election year of 1976. The Republicans have made a mess out of things in 2008 with the war in Iraq and high energy prices as well as greedy profiteers sucking the economy dry with bad loans. It’s funny that a Republican President is allegedly responsible for a problem that past administrations and current House and Senate members have cause. It was the same thing entering into the election year of 1976.
In the election year of 1976 the Republicans were again up the proverbial creek due to Nixon and Watergate, Vice President Ford pardoning Nixon when becoming President and the doom of all sitting Presidents, a sagging economy. Jimmy Carter, a virtual unknown, campaigns as a fresh candidate of change and not the typical Washington insider. Hmmm where have we heard that before? The Democratic primary featured a bunch of different candidates who were better known and better funded. Jimmy Carter eventually was crowned the winner. Another thing that didn’t bode well with the incumbent Republican Ford was an energy crisis. Do we see any parallels?
We now move forward…to 2008. It’s now the end of a Republican President that has gone from the tops of popularity to being despised by many in a very similar mode as Richard Nixon. Many in America are disenfranchised with the establishment due to a myriad of reasons like an unpopular war Iraq not unlike like Vietnam. Soaring energy prices pushing the economy into a recession on the edge of the election and a mix of further collapse of the economy due to poor lending practices that when added with the volatile energy prices has created a deep recession. Just like 1976, American’s wealth has disappeared due high energy costs and is blamed squarely on the sitting President. Enter Barack Obama, a candidate who appears to be preaching change as a relative new comer to politics much like Jimmy Carter. During the election of 1976 the Democratic Party wins control of the Presidency, Congress both the House and the Senate. It appears that we are on the doorstep to a repeat of this feat..
The reason I bring this up.. President Carter is viewed by most normal people as one of the biggest failures of any President. Carter spent four years blundering through and with the acceptance of Congress led America into a deep dark period. American’s became familiar with the Carter Misery Index which was the inflation rate added together with the unemployment rate. Taxes, inflation and high energy costs sucked the life out of America for a good 7 years. With Barack Obama we are about to repeat the failures of our past. Taxes will rise as they did with Carter, prices and inflation will go unchecked, interest rates and government regulation will reach new heights. Big brother will now be watching closer anything out side the norm. The socialist take over is almost complete. I’m worried that the moral decay of America and especially its leadership is not strong enough to withstand the dark days we are about to see as a Nation.
In all honesty I don’t view John McCain as the coming Messiah but I do view him as a candidate to off set the crazies that control congress. McCain would have the power to keep the extremists in check via the checks and balances that our form of government contains. We need a balance of powers. Anytime the pendulum has swung too far in either direction dire things happen. We will soon find our selves in a deep dark place that no one wants to talk about; a place where men will find God or will dive into the depths of despair without hope.
Further Reading about How Bad Jimmy Carter was as a President: Jimmy Carter: Profile in Incompetence
