Four Traps for Obama

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2010 is do-or-die time for the Obame Administration Bill Clinton lost a majority in Congress two years after he came into office. Enough voters switched against the Democrats to bring the Gingrich-led GOP Congress into majority status for thr first time in 40years. Voters wanted to restrain the Clinton's socialist ambitions. Two fiasco puntuated the first Clinton years. First, the Democrats' drive for openly practiced homosexuality in the military. The voters didn't like the idea of US Marines openly sleeping together. The second fiasco was HillaryCare, which looked like a massive power-grap, not a medicalinsurance program Barack Obama is preparing to step into those two hornets'nests even now. But there's more. Trap Number Three: Obama wants to make his mark domestically, and keep foreign policy stable and at a distance, at least in the first few years. That's why he brought in Hillary and her merry band to run a foreign policy. But this won't work. Foreign challenges started to emerge as soon as Obama was elected. Vladimir Putin is treatining Ukraine's gas supplies. He has no compuction about invading meighboring countries, as he did with Georgia. The Europeans, in their usual shameful and cowardly way, will immediate cann on the Us to respond. Ahmadinejad will explode his first nuke in the two year. The Arabs oil countries will look to the US to protect them. Add the North Koreans and lots of pressure from the arabs who have apparently invested money in the Obama Campaign. Obama will have to respond, or back down. Trap Number Four. The economy is worst trap of all, because it affects every voter's well being. We are in an unprecedented debt crisis, with no clear way out. What gets us out of trouble-- the Crter Malaise, the great Depression, the business cycles -- is improved productivity. The productive sector of the economy creats goods and services that people want. The computer revolution will improve genuine productivity. But none of those are under Federal control. The happen at their own pace, as products, opportunities and markets open up.