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Some have read the latest issue<\/a> to be a comparison between the two presidents.\u00a0 Many on both sides are, naturally, upset by the comparison.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised.\u00a0 After all, in addition to Ronald Reagan, Obama has been compared to Abraham Lincoln,\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams,\u00a0George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe,\u00a0Martin Van Buren,\u00a0John Tyler,\u00a0James K. Polk,\u00a0Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland,\u00a0Woodrow Wilson,\u00a0Calvin Coolidge,\u00a0Harry S Truman,\u00a0Dwight D. Eisenhower,\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt,\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt,\u00a0 Winston Churchill, Charles DeGaul, Otto Von Bismark, Richard the Lionheart, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Caesar Romero, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, St. Godric, St. Cuthbert, Gary Gygax, DaVince, Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Hawking, Washington Irving, Denzel Washington, Freddy \u2018Boom Boom\u2019 Washington, Harrison Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Gary Grant, Cash and Carry, Carry me out to old Virginia, and any other comedy rift by Alan Alda as Hawkeye Peirce, MacArthur, Patton, Sun Tzu, the Buddha, Mohamed, Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, John, Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin, and even Pete Best for good measure,\u00a0 the guy who invented the sewing machine, Thomas Edison, Zeus and Odin, and God the Creator of the Universe.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Now, with such lofty expectations, it\u2019s not hard to see why the poor fellow seems to flounder no matter what he does.\u00a0 Unlike Reagan, we were given a scenario of utter hopelessness, able to be delivered only by this man\u00a0who God prays to every morning.\u00a0 The times were tough, and therefore it took a man of singular talents to make things right.\u00a0 And not only\u00a0could he, but he would.\u00a0 He had to.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t fail.\u00a0 After all, this is a man compared to the genetic depository of history\u2019s greatest, who could move mountains, feed five thousand, walk on water, explain how American Idol still garners an audience, align the planets, and end death and disease as we know it. <\/p>\n

When Reagan took over, the increasingly left leaning media tried to downplay his potential, portraying him as a hack, a B-Movie actor who made films with chimps, a brain dead cowboy who wasn\u2019t gay, and a right wing warmonger sure to nuke the world and end civilization as we know it.\u00a0 To this day, the Left can\u2019t forgive the fact that Reagan disappointed their expectations.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But Obama was none of those things.\u00a0 Even the Right dared not criticize too much, less the dreaded Racist<\/em> label be thrown faster than the speed of light.\u00a0 So on the day he became president, with such lofty a cloud of witnesses with which he had been compared (and continues to be compared), with the expectations of nothing less than a Messianic deliverance to a new epoch of the universe,\u00a0 Obama was doomed to fail.\u00a0 The poor guy could have turned everything around, cured cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s, ended hunger, brought peace,\u00a0and he still would have fallen short of expectations.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve said before<\/a>, if you want to blame anyone for Obama\u2019s struggles, blame his near god-worshipping supporters in the media and other venues of the Left for expectations only God\u00a0could have possibly met.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"