I'm afraid for the worst.

The more I read the more I realize with an incredible rapidity, that America's status as the world's pre-eminent superpower is now passing away. This is a function both of the nearly systematic abandonment of U.S. interests and allies overseas, with metastasizing debt and bureaucracy on the home front.And while I think the U.S. has the structural fortitude to survive the Obama presidency, it will be a much-diminished country that emerges from the "new physics" of hope and change. My heart is saddend by the weakening of my truley noble nation. We were beaten down by the evil of entitlements just like Rome.