Not a Goalkeeper

Though they may never enjoy the fame of a Pele or a Zinedine Zidane, no club ever leaves the football (soccer) pitch victorious without a skilled net minder blocking more of the opposition's attempts on goal than goals they are able to produce themselves. People often make analogies between politics and sport. Barack Hussein Obama made certain promises as he campaigned. Among them were keeping unemployment under eight percent. While the official figure is hovering around ten percent, economist say the actual rate may be near seventeen percent when discouraged job seekers and the underemployed are taken into account. If this figure prevails, we have more than double the jobless that Obama envisioned. Obama said he would close the Guantanamo Bay facility for terrorist detention as he sought the highest office. Thankfully, to this point, Obama has not fulfilled that one either though a letter has been leaked that the remorseless detained jihadists will be his gift to his adopted home state of Illinois. Nothing says gratitude like sending a few hundred head choppers to menace his former neighbors. Obama has not met any expectations for the good, but he has realized some of our worst fears to his true leftist leanings. Obama has failed already in the primary mission, allowing the Fort Hood Massacre and then equivocating about its cause. He already allowed one opponent's ball into our goal, and it is sadly certain more enemies are determined to take their shots on goal, promising greater destruction as well.