Dangerous' president likely a one-term president

A pastor and bestselling author who was contacted by the White House after criticizing the president last year says he still believes Barack Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction.

Several weeks before the 2010 midterm elections, Dr. David Jeremiah, senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church of El Cajon, California, told OneNewsNow that he believed President Obama was "a very dangerous person" and that the American people should elect a Congress to slow down the train taking the U.S. to socialism.

A year later, Dr. Jeremiah has not changed his mind about the president's policies.

Shortly after his statement was made public, "the guy who runs [the administration's] faith-based operation called me and wanted to straighten me out," the pastor reports. "We had a great conversation, and neither one of us changed our opinions.

"There's an awful lot of hatred expressed toward Obama, and I need to tell you I don't hate President Obama, but I just totally disagree with what he's done and where he's taken this country," Jeremiah assures. "And I believe if we don't get somebody else in there who has a better handle on things, we're going to have an awful difficult next five years."

He believes that pretty much any of the current GOP candidates would be better than Obama.

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Historical data against a second term
As for the president's re-election chances, a political scientist and presidential election analyst says that from a historical standpoint, it is a two-sided coin. With the election now less than 14 months away, Regent University's Dr. Charles Dunn says Obama faces two historical realities. (Listen to audio report)

"It's a coin with two sides. One side of that coin says Obama will win," the government professor explains. "Only two one-term presidents where a party has controlled the White House for one term failed, and that's Grover Cleveland, 1888, and Jimmy Carter in 1980."

But on the other side of the coin, Dunn says the 9.1-percent unemployment rate and zero percent growth will likely equal a one-term president.

"No incumbent candidate has ever won re-election with a jobless rate above 7.2 percent," he reports. "So the likelihood is he'll be running for re-election in the loser's bracket. There's no way he can win. The data are against him."

Dunn concludes that right now, Obama looks very much like Carter, who had similar economic numbers and lost after just one term in office.

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow