Igorsky

Two Takes on Obanomics

Obama reminds me of the disastrous Jimmy Carter era - disastrous economy, high interest rates (today, still a record), failed foreign policies and a nation filling hopeless.

Jimmy Carter had a good team that beat a very respectable President Ford and got him elected to the Presidency. But his team had smarts only in winning elections but little smarts required in running a country. Georgia at that time was a relatively simple state to run and no exposure to international events. His team had no experience in running a large entity, let alone a country. Carter was a narrow visioned micromanager who got tied up in the multitude of problems landing on his desk daily.

In contrast, when Reagan became President, he took his highly experienced and competent team with him. The same team he had when he was Governor of California for 8 years. California was already a large State with plenty of International exposures. Reagan was a delegator and a visionary. He was very successful in his first term. However, some of his old reliables left after 4 years and his second term was not as good.

George Bush Sr was a successful President. He was Vice President for 8 years, had learned the job well and was well qualified when he took over. He had in place a good team who had worked well together for years under Reagan. He managed to complete bringing down the Soviet empire and beat back Saddam Hussain with little loss of American life. He lost to Clinton only because his campaign manager for his first election died during his second run for President.

Obama, should he become President, would be worse than Carter. Obama has never managed a State, City or an enterprise. Consequently, he has not built up a cadre of people who have proven competence and expertise that is needed in running the US government. He does not have a team of people who have worked together for years, with a proven record of making good decisions that affect millions of people. With him being very light in managing experience and global experience, a highly cohesive and competent team is essential. It will be very difficult for him to form such a team for the people who have the needed qualities will not want to be part of a team bound to fail. It is not worth their time and reputation. His only resource will be a team formed from his campaign organization. Just like Carter's, a team good at winning an election but terrible in running a government. Would we want for this to happen...make the US government as Obama's training grounds? We should reject this kind of change.

McCain is a seasoned veteran. He knows the issues and has the correct solutions. He is Maverick enough to do what is right for our country regardless of what his party thinks. He has people who are of proven competence and honesty around him that will form his team. Add to this his nominating Romney as his VP. Now, Romney has a proven successful track record of running a big State (MA) and big businesses that requires vision. He will bring his cadre of people to run the US government. McCain and Romney is the team our country needs during this hard times to bring order and sanity once more.

In 2002 and 2004 Olympics and in-between, we have seen the USA Basketball Team loaded with superstars fall to other countries. Great players individually, but did not play as a team. In 2008 we had an Olympic team of great players who have 3 years playing together and we won the gold! The US needs a Team of competent people running our government or we wind up losing to China, Russia and even Iran and North Korea.