The field is, as they say, wide open. The Democrats are giving the Republicans the presidency--but the Republicans can't find anybody to take it.

President Obama, the incumbent, is of course running backwards, away from the finish line.

The Republicans can't find a respectable candidate to run against the man who can't face that his disastrously erroneous, counter-productive, broken-promises lying term is coming to an end.

Is it possible that Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich. Ron Paul, or Michelle Bachmann could be the next president of the United States? Or course it is--because Barack Obama plans to run for re-election.

His platform will be that he is the president of broken promises.

He promised to close the torture-camp at Guantanamo Bay--and didn't.

He promised to end our illegal and immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--and instead expanded them to include Pakistan--and any other country that might harbor a Taliban (our creation--does anybody remember that?) leader--and now Libya and probably Syria: and of course Iran.

He promised to stop torturing people, and to protect whistle-blowers--and has been torturing Bradley Manning for more than a year for obeying the law.

He was going to provide a real health care bill--but didn't.

He has done nothing good. And his young daughters will grow up to know that their father was a fraud. And black Americans will be ashamed to have him as their representative. And all of us who trusted him will be tempted to cry, "Never again!"

Does the Unites States hate Arabs? and Islam? Or course. Why? Is it just because of the Arab countries' oil? Or is because, since Americans are forbidden by law to hate black people, and have learned that they can't openly hate Jews, they are busy hating Arabs and Muslims--and ignorantly assuming that Arab and Muslim are interchangeable terms? And of course American Jews hate their fellow-Semite Arab brothers.

Along comes America's first black president, who is also sort of a Muslim and an Arab, but a Christian too. And he is very intelligent, but also utterly immoral.

In 2012 Barack Obama is a candidate to be defeated. But which one of the utterly unqualified, incompetent Republicans will be the one to defeat him?

Or will the Democrats get smart, refuse to endorse Obama, and maybe choose Governor Cuomo as their presidential nominee?

Bert Hornback