Gerald Celente: Celente Picks 2012 Presidential Winner

And the next President of the United States will be: Barack Obama. Should the Republicans nominate one of the three current frontrunners: Mitt Romney, Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman, Barack wins, despite polls showing him with with just a 41 percent approval rating. By playing the "populist card" he's already begun to deal. The President is already calling the bluff of his Republican foes, demanding a millionaire's tax, and daring a gridlocked Congress NOT to pass it! "Warren Buffet's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax than Warren Buffett," Obama moralizes. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher, or a nurse, or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher taxes than someone pulling in $50 million." Obama began rehearsing his self-described role as "warrior for the middle class" some months ago. In the Summer 2011 issue of the Trends Journal, we alerted subscribers to Obama's populist campaign strategy: "Undaunted by his string of broken promises, in the summer of 2011, the born-again populist positioned himself to retain his core Democratic base, while wooing swelling legions of the hard-pressed, desperate for a government handout, the out of work and down and out were left with a Hobson's Choice: Either take Obama, or be left out in the cold by Republicans!