Driving past the White House the other day, my eye was caught by the bumper sticker on the shiny black Toyota Prius in front of me. It read: “We love you Hillary – Clinton for President, 2016″.
A year ago, I’d have snorted at the slogan and kept my distance from the vehicle – judging the driver to be a delusional Clintonite diehard still desperately fighting the reality that the former First Lady’s presidential aspirations were history.
Now, the person behind that wheel seems to be on the money. Having elected Barack Obama amid near national euphoria, America is experiencing something akin to buyer’s remorse.
Obama’s popularity is the lowest of any American president at the end of his first year in office since polling began. Yet as his approval ratings have nose-dived, those of his Secretary of State have curved elegantly upwards.
I don’t care how much you hate Hillary; you’d be hard-pressed to point out any area in which she would have done a worse job than our current President. I didn’t get her for President, which was what I wanted, but I can take at least a small measure of satisfaction in knowing that the people who voted for President Obama while laughing at Clinton clearly got it wrong and picked the wrong candidate, and the country has suffered quite a bit because of it.
Nothing has changed, Washington is even more polarized than it was when he got there, and by every measure, year 1 of Obamatopia has been a flop of epic proportions.
I had my thumbs in my ears and I was wiggling my fingers as I wrote that.
