Obama's Visit Home

Barack Hussein Obama seems to have left the United States rudderless as he continues his wanderings literally far away from the traditional American mainstream. Obama's compass and sextant do not point to the heartland but toward his next destination- Indonesia- where he spent his formative years. Obama lived in this the world's most populous Muslim nation and even attended an Islamic school or madrassa for a year there. When present in the Oval Office, President Obama navigates hard toward port with a definite leftward bias in the winds in the departing Congress shifting the ship of state toward an almost unrecoverable capsize. Now perhaps a steadier hand is coming in to direct the US House of Representatives, but to the other organs of governance, the incoming Republican majority in the House will be regarded as a mutinying crew. The Senate, President Obama, and large elements of the judiciary feel the rebellion against them is the real issue and see no need for a course correction of the direction of the nation. To them, the Republican Congress, the resistance they face in the voting public, and the constraints of the US Constitution are the only obstacles and the real problems of the nation. But in flyover country the GOP takeover and the return of adult hands and conservative values to the deck are a path to salvation and the only possible solution for the country.