The art of politics and of law both appear to be dealing with manipulation of the facts at time, but politics certainly take it to extremes. One cannot help but feel sorry for President Barack Obama who is now under attack for the job situation in America.

It never ceases to amaze me that the average member of the public just does not seem to realise that the loss of jobs now is as a direct consequence of things that happened some time ago and for which neither Barack Obama, nor his party were responsible. They now take the blame for a situation that they did not make as well as the blame for the excesses of the rescue plan which were in fact put in place by President Bush.

The Republicans seem to have it down to a fine art to invariably get power back from the Democrats, who never seem to hold on to it for too long, and who somehow managed to convince the poor that they should vote for the party of the wealthy, the party of the big corporations and low taxes for the wealthy based on fears of socialism, communism and whatever other fear they can put into people’s heads about medical benefits laws that were actually bring treatment and coverage to 43 million Americans who don’t have it! One really does get the impression that Democrats, apart from the 8 years of Bill Clinton, are just not capable of actually holding onto power for very long.