Obama fall surprise

As the fall election for the presidency nears it will become increasingly clear that President Obama has no credible record of positive results on which to run.

The Obama campaign will and must resort to negative and demagoguery campaigning. However, will it be adequate for his return for four more years? Obama is in need of a huge bang such as the one he received after Osama bin Laden was killed, and it must occur in relatively close proximity to the election.

There are many opportunities that might afford such a bang, but probably the most likely would be an attack on the nuclear facilities of Iran, which in their minds can be justified as an attempt to stabilize the Middle East and save the world from terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.

Historically, the president who is in office at the time of the commencement of war efforts receives a significant bounce in the polls. A political animal such as President Obama will not be insensitive to this historical fact.

If one watches closely, one can understand the various developments occurring now, which are the necessary groundwork for such an attack. This is not to say that it will not become necessary to attack Iran if they are indeed developing these weapons of mass destruction, but rather to question the timing, which can be politically quite convenient.