Rowland Ramble -

Success – Having the ability to make choices and not find yourself in a position where you have no options.  Being able to create or find options when it appears that you have none would be noted a having a high level of success. 
People in jail have few options and often end up there because the choices they exercised had negative effects on society as defined by law.  This would be an example of someone who became unsuccessful based on bad decisions.
Feeling stuck in a dead end job with no options can leave a person feeling trapped and therefore, unsuccessful.  This can lead to some grave decisions in truly desperate times.
The same can be said for most anything that has lifelong or what feels like lifelong effects.
I didn’t start this post with this in mind but a leader who continues to blame the previous leader (presidents come to mind) for their inability to make their own choices that would be good for the organization they lead are by definition, unsuccessful.  I think this is where we a nation become divided.  That division is based on the definition of good choices vs bad. 
Any fool can say that our president is just having trouble leading because of the last one, but the reality is that our country is in the worst shape that it has been in since I can remember.  The bad choices made by the current leadership aren’t helping us and to blame the last guy for not really leaving the oval office neat, tidy and rife with easy choices is a cop out.
The bottom line is that by definition, our president is unsuccessful in the fact that he has not been able to find and make good choices for our nation and he continues to blame the last president for those inabilities.  To cast a vote for someone who is defined in this manner is to align themselves with failure or if the failures of the president aren’t why a person would vote for him, it must be partisanship.
How can anyone nominate a potential leader based on political party when the party’s foundational core of supporters would nominate a proven failure?
It may appear like I am suggesting which way to vote. I’m not. I am not sure the other guy is any better but I think that this nation voted on hope and change and we landed here. Would it be wise to consider change again in an effort to try new solutions and try to find success or would the continued path of failure be worth hanging onto for the sake of political partisanship? You decide…it’s your vote.