The audacity of nope? Economic woes threaten to sink Obama

A PHRASE has entered the political bloodstream which you are going to be hearing a lot of in the next little while: “one-term presidency”.

No, I’m not referring to Michael D. Should he make it on the 27th — and far worse things could happen — and go on to serve two terms, he would still be a good six years younger than Dev was when he left the Park. Nor am I referring to Nicolas Sarkozy who, almost despite his best efforts to rile the French, still cannot be counted out in the face of such meagre Socialist opposition.

No, I refer of course, to “The One”, as Oprah Winfrey termed Barack Hussein Obama II. Suddenly, the US Republicans envision a scenario in which their presidential candidate could defeat Mr Obama in a referendum on his job performance. How can it be, you might ask, that the victor in an epoch-making election that feels like it took place so recently has fallen so low?