His Time Seems to Be Up.

If the Democrats lose big on Tuesday, Obama is going to have a very tough two final years of his term; not that the first two have been easy.  But, without a majority in Congress, he will accomplish very little of his agenda.  Local politics aside, which may explain some of the Congressional turnaround, this could also signal that, at bottom, the country feels that it gave a black man the chance to be President and he came up short.  So, they can take off the gloves and start tearing him down politically by taking away his vital support in Congress.

In truth, this has been going on for quite some time now.  All those people who feel uncomfortable, to say the least, having a black man as President welcome the chance to neutralize him.  They have tried everything, from questioning his birth to his religion, to show how ill-suited he is to hold office because he is not a "real American."  Real Americans are white, so a black man can't be a "real President" of the United States of America.  Instead of getting rid of him the "old-fashioned way", they have decided to shoot him down by leaving him in an untenable position.  It isn't that they just don't like his politics, it's that they don't like him as a person because of the color of his skin.

For "a brief, shining moment", it seemed that he had won the hearts and minds of his people, but the moment seems to have been very brief indeed.

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