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     When investigating a homicide, the police ask, “Who stands to gain from this act?”

     I think the same applies to politics: If you want to know who your leader is, just look at who has profited and who has suffered under the current administration. The oil companies are making record billions in profit. Wall Street is booming. His stirring speeches and exciting autobiographies to the contrary, President Obama appears to be the worst kind of corporate shill. Winners are not victorious by chance. These things are planned.

     As for Obama’s liberal base and the people who elected him: Students are more in debt today than ever before in history. Unemployment remains high. Government employees have had their wages frozen for the next two years, as a way for them to lead in the effort to tighten our belts. The middle class finds itself increasingly in debt. Gas prices have again risen to $4 a gallon.

     If the Republicans can find a candidate free of too much excess ideological baggage, all he need do to win the presidency is keep repeating the phrase, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Since most Americans will have to answer “no,” the incumbent looks increasingly like a one-term president.