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"President Barack Obama can take a bow. As he struggles with poor polling numbers, persistent high unemployment, a stagnant economy saddled with massive deficits and debts, and the possibly of a primary challenge within his own party, one area where he can claim success is his prediction that he would slow sea level rise.

"My sister (said): 'You have to vote for Obama, for what it would have meant for Mom and Dad (passionate civil rights campaigners).' I felt that too. It's a huge thing. This [history of racism] has been the worst blot on this country. All of a sudden this charming, intelligent guy just blows it away. It was great."

Andrew C. McCarthy a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Wall Street) makes the sensational charge of criminal fraud being the issue in the Obama administration's handling of $535m of US Government loans to the recently bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.

Even someone who thinks his policies have been a disaster must concede President Obama's powers of oratory. His speech to a joint session of the Congress Thursday night was, as a political speech, a performance as good as any seen since presidents Reagan or Kennedy. No other contemporary American politician, he reminded us, is in the same league at a podium as Obama at his best.

Yes we follow this president's many disastrous policies - the stagnation of the economy, the joblessness, the burgeoning national debt, the disgraceful bailouts of banks and car companies, the suppression of domestic oil and gas production, the ridiculous schemes for highspeed rail and solar panels, the pandering to union thugs, so-called 'livability,' the inability to enact a budget, the proposed bureaucratic ossification of health care, the fixation on ra

"...Obama’s rhetorical floundering is the sound of a bewildered politician trying to be heard over the long, withdrawing roar of ebbing faith in a failing model of governance. From Greece to California, with manifestations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Illinois and elsewhere, this model is collapsing. Entangled economic and demographic forces are refuting the practice of ever-bigger government financed by an ever-smaller tax base and by imposing huge costs on voiceless future generations.

The election result seems to have reduced some friends in the media to psychobabbling gibberish.

Esquire magazine's Tom Junod:

"And President Obama? 'I'm not sure I'd describe him as a socialist.

I might even say he has a naive and touching faith in capitalism.

He believes you can impose all sorts of burdens on the system and it will still work.'

10. Not enough dead people vote at IOC meetings

9. Obama was distracted by a long 12 minute meeting with general McChrystal

8. Who cares if Obama couldn’t talk the IOC into Chicago? He’ll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.

7. Israel still building settlements

6. Obviously no president would have been able to accomplish this.

5. We’ve been quite clear and said all along that we didn’t want the Olympics.

4. This isn’t about the number of Olympics “lost”, it’s about the number of Olympics “saved” or “created”.

The inauguration of President Obama is a great day for America. It is celebrated by tens of millions of Americans who couldn't identify with past American presidents and who feel proud of their country, really proud, for perhaps the first time in their lives.