Next President Faces Extreme Challenges

When one looks at the enormity of the extreme challenges that the next President of the United States will face one has to question the sanity of John McCain and Barack Obama. It is highly likely that during the next term severe consequences will take place as a result of the misdeeds and misjudgements and in some cases inaction on the part of the Bush administration.

Starting with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney a long list of destructive characters comes to mind. A far from complete short list includes Alan Greenspan, Alberto Gonzales, Don Rumsfield, Karl Rove, and L. Paul Bremer III. These few men have cost the United States its place in the world as the supreme superpower and may have pushed the US over the edge of the abyss towards a future of being a second rate cousin of the third world if not actually sinking into third world status.

I will not at this time make more than brief comments on the extreme challenges that the next president will face. Rather this will be a brief listing of issues that will tax the most able of managers and leaders. The list will be expanded in the near future as I can find the mental energy to continue. Some of the challenges are so severe that they may be insolvable. At least in a fashion that America citizens would find acceptable.

John McCain and Barrack Obama take note. Once elected you will likely be faced with such difficult challenges that you will go down in the history books as the American president who presided over the downward spiral of America. To be fair, you will face probably the most complex and difficult issues ever confronted by any American president. But it will be your watch and you will reap the blame for failure should failure occur.

A list of front and center issues and brief comments follow:

1. Global Warming. There is little disagreement in the scientific community that human activities contribute to global warming. However, few experts have stated publicly that it is already too late for mankind to avoid disastrous consequences over the next fifty years. The extreme challenge for the next US president will be to forge a worldwide alliance of nations that will begin to plan for a disastrous future for a large percentage of mankind. The president will have to move beyond the denial stage and convince a nation that it must follow his lead.

2. Meltdown of the US Financial System and Economy: The number one issue for most Americans will become one of survival in an economy that was constructed over many years on a shaky foundation of fraud, deceit, and lies. Yes, I know strong words, but in future articles I will back up what I say. My forecast is that the next president will be immediately immersed in so many financial disasters as the housing collapse continues and even large banks fail that he will have little opportunity to work on other important, even critical issues.

3. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: It is so much easier to get into wars than to get out of them. The next president will face increased conflict in both Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no good way out of either conflict.

There are more just as urgent and complex extreme challenges that will be added to this list soon. Just looking at the list will convince you that any man or women wanting the US president’s job over the next four years must be quite insane.