>>>>I would wish him luck, but I sincerely believe he is out to destroy the US. I think he is a globalist and he thinks our idea of work, get paid, purchase is not the way it should be. He thinks big government should steal from the workers and give to his voters (many of whom will not work, and don't pay taxes.) May he fail miserably, if my assessment is correct, and obviously, I believe it is.
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>>>I too have been thinking that lately too. I don't think he has a chance to win an election again. The only way he can stay in office is to create big crisis and postpone the election until he has - Umm let's call it - "handled the situation." If it comes to that, my basement and a couple of spare bedrooms are available. - And I ain't kidding. :-)
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>>Not a chance, you say. Let's make this interesting and place a friendly wager on it. I say Obama will be reelected. If you are interested, you can suggest the stakes. Nothing big; a friendly wager. The last time I did this I won. It doesn't even matter that the loser (someone I like quite a bit) welshed.
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>It's a wager not worth taking. AFAIK, only four times did the incumbent lose and one doesn't really count. Jimmy Carter, George H.W Bush, William Taft and Gerald Ford (the last doesn't count as he wasn't elected to be President). A known identity is better than the unknown in most American's eyes... no matter what has occurred during his Presidency, no change until his 2nd term ends I think.

I believe the wager is worth taking, with odds of course. ;)

Ford's defeat was a backlash and Taft managed to piss off everyone. Carter, Bush 41 and Hoover and all lost re-election as a direct result of economic conditions. The preponderance of evidence I'm examining points to, at best, a stagnant economy for the near term. I do not subscribe to this optimistic vision and if I'm correct then I don't care if it's a Paul/Trump ticket, Obama will lose.

I would accept 4-1 odds at this point as fair value for taking the Republican "field" v. Obama. ;)