You haven't seen nothing yet! There is very likely to be an overwhelming confluence of very powerful forces aligned with the single purpose of destroying Obama's presidency, and making sure he becomes a one-time president. And of course, his timidity and lack of courage will just make it that much easier.
It's already August. The general election it's going to happen in 15 months. The economy will not recover in such a short period of time. Republicans, the Teabaggers, Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, countless Astroturf corporatist public relations firms, the propaganda machine that is the entire U.S. mainstream media, religious fundamentalists and gun-loving wack-jobs, will all come together to do whatever it takes to make sure Obama fails.
As events develop during the next several months, Bachmann and Perry will emerge as Republican presidential frontrunners. And either one of them has a very good chance of becoming president. Back on June 28th, 2011 I wrote a diary titled "Here's How Michele Bachmann Wins The Presidency in 2012," where I explained why I think she could win.
But aside from what's happening in the political arena, another very powerful reason Perry or Bachman could win is because they have the full backing of religious fundamentalists that are hell-bent (pun intended) in taking over "'The Seven Mountains' of society, including the media and the arts and entertainment world. They believe they’re intended to lord over it all. As a first step, they’re leading an “army of God” to commandeer civilian government." Read one of the latest article about this by Texas Oberver's Forrest Wilder, "Rick Perry's Army of God: A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man."
I pity the typical über-intellectual liberal that can't get his head around the possibility that batshit crazy people like this could take over the country.
As I wrote back on June 28th, 2011, here's what Matt Taibbi sees it in an article he wrote for Rolling Stone, titled "Michele Bachmann's Holy War":
Snickering readers in New York or Los Angeles might be tempted by all of this to conclude that Bachmann is uniquely crazy. But in fact, such tales by Bachmann work precisely because there are a great many people in America just like Bachmann, people who believe that God tells them what condiments to put on their hamburgers, who can't tell the difference between Soviet Communism and a Stafford loan, but can certainly tell the difference between being mocked and being taken seriously. When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don't learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you're a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they're even more determined now to support anyone who promises not to laugh at their own visions and fantasies.
And the reasons are really not that hard to explain: The puppet masters are the plutocrats which currently control Wall Street and most of our government, and the media. And they have partnered up with their useful idiots in the form of the extreme religious wack-jobs. A partnership between government, corporation, and Church. What do you call that again? It escapes me...