Hi, this Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to episode 88 of my podcast. Who's paying attention? I am up in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento, performing at Tommy Tees.

It's been a great weekend. Beautiful fall weekend in California. You know what that means. 90 degree weather. It's perfect.

Anyway, let's get right into it. What's going on? As you know, we're getting closer to the midterm elections, and it's interesting that

the Democrats are nervous. And when they get nervous, you know what Democrats do. They run. Right

now, they're running from Barack Obama. Now, let's face it, Barack Obama has low approval

ratings. His approval numbers are low. I've said it before. I'll say it again. This whole black president thing probably looked a lot better in the brochure than it's playing out in real life. But what's the truth underneath it? The truth behind it. I've been saying this for a couple of weeks and I have some support this week, but Barack Obama is one of the best presidents we've had

ever, definitely of the last, you know, four or five. I mean, Barack Obama has done more

with the economy over the past six years than any president's done coming out of a recession.

And his health care plan, whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, is actually working.

His financial reforms are good.

Foreign policy is a little weird.

I don't think anyone saw ISIS coming.

So he's got to deal with that.

But overall, he's doing a great job, and you know what that means?

No support from the Democrats in Congress.

But there's a great article in Rolling Stone magazine.

He's on the cover, and it's written by Paul Krugman, who is an economist and writer for the New York Times.

A lot of people are going to say, well, he writes for the New York Times, so he's supporting a liberal.

Well, actually, this guy has said that he didn't support Barack Obama.

He thought initially there was too much support for Barack Obama based on, and we're talking about in 2008, based on the eloquence of his speeches,

but Paul Krugman said that, you know, Barack Obama was somewhat naive and inexperience,

et cetera, et cetera. Now he's writing an article saying basically that Barack Obama is a better

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