President Obama--a one-termer?

Think about this.

President Barack Obama has been in office almost exactly one year.

He did make some small progressive changes to our country. He reaffirmed--verbally, anyway--that we aren't supposed to torture. He called for honoring the Geneva Convention--again, verbally, because apparently, we might still be torturing, we can't be sure, and we haven't reinstituted Habeus Corpus...

Anyway, he got some things going back on a better track.

But the American people have a very short memory and now too many of us believe he created the huge spending we're experiencing right now.

Forget that the George W. Bush Administration started all that nonsense.

It was that previous group that thought up the 700 billion dollar bailout plan.

Forget that our economy crashed on W's watch, largely due to the Conservative's and Republican's desire for and love of deregulation and free markets.

At least they do until they screw up our banking system and the big banks all nearly collapse. Then they're all for government.

Anyway, so now, here we are, on the cusp of getting a bit of health care reform and what happens? One pivotal Senator dies and gets replaced--surprisingly--by a Tea-bagger (that would be Scott Brown, at least a sympathizer) and there goes our 60 strong, filibuster-proof vote for the reform we need so badly.

Then, early today we get a ruling from the Supreme Court, doing away with campaign contribution limits for corporations.

And the only conclusion I can come to is that this President's productive days may well be over.

I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it strongly.

We're about to go into election season and it's likely we'll lose at least some seats in Congress this Fall.

Too many Democrats are Republican-lite and/or can be bought off by corporations in their districts and voila'--the President is shackled.

Then, after this Fall's elections, it's time for the President to again start running for office and still more time when nothing of substance gets done.

The Republicans have done it. They have said "no" and stalled and blocked and stymied progress for America all they could and they've won.

Nothing of substance will get passed in the next 3 years.

Prepare, now, for repeated comparisons of this President to Jimmy Carter and his inability to get things done. I've heard it already and there will be a lot more of it.

It's going to get ugly.

Heck, it's already depressing.

The African-American President was/is hated enough just for being himself.

Then he was hated because they said he was too liberal. Then a Socialist.

His Presidency may, for all intents and purposes, be over.

This may be a one-term Presidency.

God, I hope I'm wrong about all this.

But I sure don't think so.