I never trusted nor liked Obama as president. I did not buy into voting for change when he ran, and always wondered change to what. That was not defined too much. Still there were things on which he campaigned including the closing of Guantanamo and his Obamacare that were I even a supporter, would give me pause. After all if it was important enough to be a campaign issue, why was that not more effort into closing Guantanamo? Obama was wrong to suggest it should have been shut, but then even from a liberal perspective, he did not even push his own agenda. And for Obamacare, if universal health insurance is his goal, and if lowering rates his plan, why are rates skyrocketing. I can no longer afford insurance for my family. And why...

I am not sure if readers are fans of Science Fiction. As I read the works of Weber (Honor Harrington) I am more and more convinced that the future he envisions is much like the present we are now beginning to face. There is less and less that separates current American leftism from the Haven that he describes, as the arch enemy of the Mantecoran alliance, an empire far more similar to the UK and the America of my youth.