The next president is likely to serve only one term. Why? The answer is two-fold, as it applies to each candidate.

Let’s take the case of Obama. If Obama wins it will be because he was successful in keeping his true leftist leanings a secret from the voting public. But if he wins he will show his true colors quickly after taking office. And make no mistake, his true colors are as leftward and as anti-American as we have seen in any presidential candidate since John Kerry (in the last election). I believe that after four years of this the American public will be truly fed up and will throw him out as fast as they did Jimmy Carter.

As a Leftist, Obama has no understanding of what makes a capitalist economy tick, so you can look for the economy to be in the dumps after he radically increases taxes on the “rich” and creates massive new federal spending programs, and implements a wide variety of business-strangulating regulations that you can expect from any left-wing president.

On foreign policy, you can expect that the rest of the world will pay lip service to respecting America but they will begin taking advantage of us on all sides. As an appeaser, Obama will make known to the bad guys of the world that we are easy game. The “hate America” rhetoric may well die down among the left-wingers of the world, but in its place will be a weakening of America around the world as bad guys swipe at us from every angle.

Four years will be a long time for Obama to keep these growing trends a secret and the American public will surely be tired of it by the end of his first term. Pray that you do not get asked to be his vice presidential running mate, because this will doom your career as fast as he loses re-election!

Now, in the case of John McCain, things aren’t all that different. If McCain wins it will be because the American public will see Obama for the left-winger he really is. Maybe they’ll notice he counts domestic terrorists among his friends. Or maybe they’ll wake up to the fact that you can’t spend 20 years in a church listening to an America-hating pastor or being married to a woman who is extremely bitter towards America without some of it rubbing off on you.

But, how successful will McCain be as president? After listening to his recent “town-hall” in New York City, where he spoke on the economy, it’s difficult to imagine he’ll be much more successful as president. He condemned the oil companies for making “obscene profits”. He complains they don’t spend enough money researching alternative fuels. Maybe that’s because that’s not their job. Maybe they’re oil companies and what they know how to do best is drill for or buy and then refine and sell oil-based products.

He also endorsed a Federal probe into “speculation” in the oil markets. “I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil.” Not only does this put him in good company with Barack Obama and the most liberal of Democrats, but it also shows a profound ignorance of how the economy works. Speculators actually enhance commodities markets by adding liquidity. And has he spent any time considering just who these speculators really are? Are they some “evil” dark characters out to make a killing by destroying the economy? No! They’re you and me! They are large state pension funds that represent tens of millions of firefighters, cops, and teachers. They’re pension and retirement funds for private companies which employ all the rest of us.

On terror McCain agrees with the recent Supreme Court decision by the five liberal justices giving detainees at Guantanamo Bay the right to appeal to the U.S. Federal Courts. On Iraq, he is firm that we must stay and get the job done. But on internal security matters he differs little from the liberals.

McCain’s understanding of the economy is so lacking and his positions on domestic security so in line with the liberals’ that I think his first term will be a failure as well.

For much the same reasons that I believe Americans will reject Barack Obama after a first term, I believe they will reject McCain as well. I believe both men will have failed presidencies that don’t go beyond a first term if they govern as they are campaigning. So pray that you are not asked to be McCain’s running mate either! As your own eventual candidacy for the top spot will be surely doomed!