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The “One” Returns

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blockquoteOZYMANDIASby Percy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveler from an antique landWho said Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fedAnd on the pedestal these words appearMy name is Ozymandias, king of kingsLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.blockquoteimg classalignright styleborder 0pt none srchttp4.bp.blogspot.comMpd1ozuoa64TRkx2mE599IAAAAAAAAC4ggEEFtntbmss400CartoonObamaandhope.jpg border0 alt width400 height272 Occasionally, when I am watching or listening to Barack Hussein Obama, I am reminded of the poem, Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.Shelley was an English romantic poet who hung out with Lord Byron and John Keats, all authentic literary giants. Shelley died at age 30 from drowning. Bryon contracted a fever, dying in Greece at the age of 36. Poor Keats died at age 26. All were dead by 1824. Rediscovered by later generations, they gained immortality.Ozymandias is a poem about a life of overweaning pride that ends poorly and forgotten. Obama has the first part down. After all, he wrote two memoirs about his life and deep thoughts before he was elected to be the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois in 2004.By 2007 Obama hit the presidential campaign trail and ended Hillary and Bill Clintons dreams of returning to the White House. He gave her a consolation prize. He then defeated yet another lame Republican candidate simply by showing up, being younger, and being able to read a TelePrompter better.What Obamas campaign is now remembered for is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, telling Joe the Plumber he wanted to redistribute everyones wealth, and for throwing his grandma under the bus.From a very young age, Obama believed he would become President. It might better be called a fixation or obsession.Obama only met his birth father once in 1971 at age ten, but here again this idea of fixation plays a role. In reality his father was a bigamist he had a wife or two back in Kenya when he married Obamas momma, a drunk he died behind the wheel while soused, and fancied a political career in Kenya that never materialized. One of Obamas two memoirs was titled Dreams From My Father. Yeah, sure.After Obama Senior, his mother married an Indonesian who adopted their son. His formative years were spent there until his mother divorced again and shipped Barack to Hawaii to be raised by his white grandparents. Progressives, they were friends with Frank Marshall Davis, a communist, one of Obamas many very left wing influences and associates over the years.I think that, early on, Obama decided to become the communist messiah to America, but like all communists, he kept that part of his political philosophy a secret from the voters, while dropping hints of it in his memoirs.When Obama returns from his vacation in Hawaii, he is going to face the toughest two years of his life. Not since 1946 have the voters turned so deliberately on a Democrat president. In 2010 they voted in a Republican majority to the House and narrowed the Democrat margin in the Senate.Obama called it a shellacking but it is better described as a rejection.Other presidents in the modern era lost their partys majorities in Congress. Clinton comes to mind and, of course, George W. Bush. Obamas loss was more than just political, it was personal.Beyond Congress Obama will have to deal with a vibrant, energized movement, the Tea Party that intends to ensure the Republicans trim government spending and turn back the policy gains Obama put in place with Obamacare at the top of the list.As far as the rest of the worlds movers and shakers are concerned, Obama is little more than a charming cocktail party guest with little to offer than small talk and leftist bromides.strongOnly one thing is certain. Obama will be running for reelection the minute he returns to Washington, but he is going to need more than his former vacuous hope and change motto and there is small chance of that. In a very real way, the nation has already moved beyond him.strongWhen I see Obama these days, I think of Jimmy Carter, a pathetic former president soundly rejected by the voters, the author of endless, largely unread books, and grateful that anyone takes notice of him.When you see Jimmy Carter today, youre looking at Barack Obama in fifteen or twenty years. Alan Caruba, 2010