After nearly four years of failed stimulus, stunted recovery, monumental debt, arrogance, incompetence, deception, tarnished illusion, disappointment, obfuscation, misdirection, lame excuses and outright lies, the time has come to determine whether America wants, or can afford, another four years of an Obama presidency.  Elevated to super-human status by a subservient media, no experienced chief executive could have fulfilled the lofty expectations of this president.  Obama was no experienced chief executive, but merely a Chicago machine politician who never held a real job, much less an executive position.  Despite this flaw, Obama could have succeeded had he surrounded himself with experienced, pragmatic problem solvers.  Instead, our ideologically rigid, arrogant, demagogue president surrounded himself with equally inexperienced ideological soul-mates; academics with no connection to the real world and Stalinist czars.  This was a plan which was doomed to fail and evidence of its failure is all around us.  Crippling unemployment, mountainous debt, increasing poverty, shrinking economic growth, the Libyan fiasco and coverup and widespread despair with no end in sight.  Jimmy Carter had a word for it – malaise.  America had the solution for the Carter malaise – Carter’s defeat in his bid for a second term.  The choice in 2012 is even more compelling.  This president has no plan to improve current conditions.  No president deserves re-election based on the notion that “if we just wait a while things are bound to get better.”  The choice is clear as November 6 draws near.  If America is to remain strong at home and abroad, Obama must be defeated.