Barack Obama has assumed the Presidency at a critical juncture when the economy is on a downward spiral due to mediocre policies of previous Administations as the visiccitudes of international factors. Most Americans, except Rush Limbaugh and his Republican disciples---want President Obama to fail. The majority of the Americans, knowing the stakes are so high, have closed ranks in support of the President. But his recent trip abroad, while it has yielded much dividend in terms of public relations on a universal level, some of the things he did while abroad did not register a positive note with some political observers here at home. His bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, for instance, is incompartible with the office of the President. The President also said things he would have been better off not having said. For example, when asked about the exceptionalism of America, he should have been unapologetically affirmative as to the authenticity of American exceptionalism without appearing to be pandering to other nations by authenticizing their own brands of exceptionalism. Moreover, his pronouncement of America as not a Christian country is the height of Presidential imprudence on his part. While that assertion in and of itself was as accurate as it could be on constitutional grounds, Obama's pronouncement itself in this regard smacks of religious particularism and denominational factionalism an American president ought to always stay above. Injecting himself into such a polarizing religious issue diminishes his Presidential status and raises questions as to his own religious orientation even as it unnecessarily tends to confirm pre-existing suspicions about his religious affiliation. All these are extraneous and uncalled for self-inflicted controversies that at the very moment he does not need to gulvanize Americans around efforts to stop the bleeding of the economy and enhance its growth for the goof of all.

Repulicans/conservatives seem to forget that Barack Obama campaigned and won the Presidential election on a platform of enhanced diplomatic practice in American Foreign Policy, following 8 years of President George Bush's scotched-earth policy that wrought havoc in US Foreign Policy and laid waste to tens of thousand of precious lives of both American servicemen and Iraqi civilians while Republicans, through and through, were cheerleading the worse American policy ever. For them now to expect President Obama to pursue the same half-baked but suicidal policies is to forget why the majority of the American people voted for Obama in the first place instead of their candidate John McCain. It's not even worthy of any further effort to stress in unequivocal terms that the voters saw through McCain's policies a nightmarish reincanation of Bush's 8 years of the militarization of American Foreign Policy and the dictatorial usurpation of freedoms and liberty of the American in the name on false security. The bitter and vitriolic criticism of President Obama's trip abroad attest to icreasing hysteria among the Conservatives as they watch helplessly the demise of their political standing among the American people.The conservative loss of ground takes place in the context of heightened consolidation of the Democratic-progressive base who are sworn to defend Obama's progressive agenda with all at their disposal. Meanwhile what do the Republicans/ Consevatives do? Even as we speak they are retooling their attack machine in readiness to spew recycled smears they have used over and over to no avail. They make the same mistakes that precipitated their defeat. And they will continue to be defeated because thet