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Is Obama now the 2012 underdog?
The Week – Fri, Jul 15, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-now-2012...135500875.html

With the economy floundering, a new Gallup poll puts a generic GOP candidate ahead of President Obama by the widest margin yet

For the first time, President Obama trails a generic Republican opponent by a statistically significant margin, according to a new Gallup poll. Obama held a slight edge in May, but a generic Republican pulled ahead in June, and this month, that nameless Republican surged ahead by eight points, 47 percent to 39 percent. That's the biggest lead for anyone since Gallup began surveying registered voters on their picks for the 2012 election. Everyone knew Obama's approval ratings were being weighed down by growing gripes about the wars, and the unraveling of the economic recovery — but with numbers this bad, is his re-election becoming a longshot?

Yes. Obama has gone from favorite to underdog: It's highly unusual for an incumbent president to be trailing so badly at this point, says Peter Wehner at Commentary, although Obama's nosedive isn't exactly surprising. An economy as sickly as this one always weighs down the occupant of the White House, and "Obama is not exempt from the rules that apply to everyone else." With less than 40 percent support, and the economy souring, 2012 is looking grim for Obama.

A fantasy Republican leads Obama, but a real one won't: It's too bad for the GOP that you can't "beat somebody with nobody," says Robert Stein at Connecting.the.Dots. Obama's prospects will brighten considerably once Republicans are forced to choose a candidate from their "field of has-beens and never-will-bes." It's one thing for stressed-out voters to be vent their anger at the man in the White House; it's quite another to actually vote to put the wobbly Mitt Romney or downright weird Michele Bachmann in charge of the free world.

Well, there's no denying the trend looks bad for Obama: The 2012 election is a long way from being decided, says Scared Monkeys, but "it is safe to say that the 'kill Osama' bounce is over." As the economy worsens, unemployment creeps back up, "and Obama continually tries to play scare politics with the debt limit, more and more Americans are saying — ABO, anyone but Obama." If your name is Romney, or Bachmann, or Pawlenty, that's good news. If your name is Obama, it most definitely is not.


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A majority of voters in 2008 wanted "change". Well, they got it!

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Before our leaders suspend Soc. Sec. checks Why not suspend all our congress and white house members salary adn benefits. Also ground airfoirce one; by grounding airforce one from his campaign tours will save us TAX PAYERS $$ and also improve the air quality

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Lets see... he's got involved in a third war, unemployment continues to be sky high despite his promise that it would be coming down after he passed the 800 billion dollar "Stimulus" boondoggle.

He changes his story every time he talks and is NEVER confronted by the lame stream media.

He hasn't provided a single "real" spending cut into the debt ceiling issue.. just plays class warfare, tries then to scare Granny and Grandpa and now he REFUSES to provide any specifics!!!

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) used the race card this afternoon. And that is unfortunate. Because there is no difference between the POTUS and every other elected person in Washington, D.C. You are all just Politicians! Otherwise known as snake oil, flim flam, con artists who lie to the American people while stealing and wasting our hardearned money!

Todays news clip of Obama saying 80% of Americans want him to raise the national debt ? Where in the hell does He get these figures ? I think 80 % of us want Him sent back to Chicago ,,



"Gallup poll: Republican candidate extends lead over Barack Obama to 8 points, 47 percent to 39 percent"
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/07/14/...ints-47-to-39/

Jay Carney: Economy ‘Vastly Improved’ Since Obama Took Office
By Doug Powers • July 21, 2011 06:20 PM

In next year’s election, Team Obama may have no other choice but to campaign against ghosts, figments of the imagination and alternate universes — reality is an opponent they know they will not defeat. White House Spokesman Jay Carney demonstrated that at today’s press conference.

Transcript from Real Clear Politics:

“Well, two things remain uncontestably true. The economy is vastly improved from what it was when Barack Obama was sworn into office as president. We were in economic free-fall. There were predictions that we were headed to the second Great Depression. We were losing up to, over 700,000 jobs a month, we were contracting at greater than 6 percent — our economy was. So, the economy has improved. It has not improved enough.

“Well, there’s no question that we face headwinds, and the president has been very direct about that. And we need to do everything we can, across the front, to ensure we’re doing what we can to spur growth, spur job creation.”

When Obama took office the unemployment rate was 7.2 percent — today, two and a half years later, it’s 9.2 percent.

Gas was about $1.79 a gallon when Obama took office. Today it’s $3.68.

There are around 13 million more people on food stamps today than there were in January of 2009. Sure, almost anybody can find statistics to suit their own argument, but all finger pointing to cast blame aside, if Carney actually believes it’s “uncontestably true” that the economy has “vastly improved” since January of 2009, he needs an uncontested psych evaluation.

Don't even consider pointing a finger or applying blame......it's simply not true that the economy has vastly improved. Everything is more expensive and salaries have not gone up, more people have lost jobs and the states are cuting back on the services they supply.

They have their heads up their behinds and are blatant liars. They keep drinking it up....:

Obama Legacy May Be Withering American Dream
By John Zogby | Forbes – Thu, Jul 21, 2011

Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign trumpeted hope for the future, but his legacy may include presiding over the withering of the American Dream. Belief that the American Dream is possible has dropped by nearly 20 points since his election, falling just below one-half of U.S. adults.

My research since 1998 about the American Dream has shown its definition evolving away from material wealth and toward spiritual happiness (both secular and religious.) So this drop in belief hints that our economic and political problems are shaking American confidence about the future and even our way of life.

This should be an enormous problem for a president seeking re-election, especially since Republican opposition makes it nearly impossible to stimulate employment in ways Obama would prefer. However, stridency from that opposition and weakness of the Republican field put Obama in much better position than the situation should allow.

And here is another twist on why Obama can survive this national malaise. Demographic groups loyal to Republicans are more likely to believe in the American Dream than are Democratic base voters. In 2008, Obama carried voters who did not believe they could achieve the American Dream by two-to-one, lost to John McCain those who did believe in the dream and still won the election. Our July 15-18 IBOPE Zogby interactive poll showed the largest drops in belief coming from groups most likely to vote against Obama.

Let’s look at our data to give you a better understanding of these dynamics. In an interactive poll taken immediately after Obama’s 2008 election, 68% of adults said it is possible for them and their families to achieve the American Dream, and 18% said it did not exist. Almost as many (62%) agreed most middle class families could achieve it. Our poll taken a week ago showed 49.7% believing the dream was achievable for their families, 30% saying it did not exist and 44% agreeing it is achievable for most middle class families.

As you would expect, confidence to achieve the American Dream rises with household income, but changes from 2008 to now don’t consistently follow according to income. The group whose confidence has been least changed (down five percentage points to 67%) and is now highest is the middle income household of $75,000 to $100,000. (In households making $25,000 or less, 33% still believe the dream is within their reach.)

There was little change over three years in how people defined the American Dream. In 2008, 38% defined it as material goods and 43% said it was spiritual happiness. Now, 40% choose the material and 37% spiritual. Above I suggested our loss of national confidence is about more than just economic well-being. The reason is our finding that those who define the American Dream as material are only slightly more likely to say it doesn’t exist than are those who define it as spiritual happiness. It seems we have both an economic and psychological recession.

In terms of political affilaition, Republican leaning groups show the largest declines in belief in the dream. Here are percentages from 2008 and now: Republicans 82% to 60%, those 65 and older 69% to 36% and conservatives 83% to 57%. Democratic base voters also showed a loss of faith in achieving the American Dream between the two polls, but not as great: Democrats 57% to 46%, liberals 52% to 40% and ages 18-29 69% to 55%. Among independent voters, their totals went from 63% in 2008 to 45% now.

Independent are the voters Obama is appealing to in the debt limit debate by trying to show he is the one willing to compromise and even go against his base to win an agreement and avert default.

That is a good political approach to governance in a time of such voter disaffection. Soon it will be time to go into full campaign mode. Obama came into the presidency at a low point and his ascendancy was in many was similar to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democrats hoped he would use government as FDR did to ignite the economy. Instead, his first term now more closely resembles that of Harry Truman - recession, foreign threats galore, and challenges to whether this President is up to the job. Truman's party split on the left and right, but he ultimately ran against a "do-nothing" Congress controlled by Republicans. Obama is expecting liberals to forgive his compromises and vote to throw out Republicans who have opposed him at nearly every turn. Rather than go on the defensive, Obama will have to take a page from Truman by giving hell to Republicans and trying again to give hope to an electorate that is fast losing it.

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REPEL NAFTA....Kick all the Lobbiest out of Washinton..2-Term Limits Senate and Congress..Make Wash polticians pay into SS like everyone else no more golden retirement plan at Taxpayer expense

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Obama and gang just said during the budget debates we need to spend to get us out of this bad economy even if its wasteful spending. Because that means cash flow. Meanwhile Afghanistans vice president arrives in Dubai with $57 million US cash on pallets to purchase a mansion with our aid money.

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We, the middle class, are about to enter the poor house, thanks to the "change" our president has brought about. Sure, sure - Obama inherited a bad situation, but his actions over the past two+ years has made it worse.

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Obama has over promised & under delivered period!

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Isn't the withering American Dream just what Obama meant when he said he would bring about "Transformational Change"?! He certainly has transformed things. What a disaster! Hey libs and young people, let's just have you vote for the PC or "cool" thing again in 2012 instead of real-world experience and resume'. See what the "cool" candidate got us this time?

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He has not only presided over the withering American dream, he has caused it!!! And dont come back with Bush did this or Bush did that. Bush didn't help, but he didn't shove Socialized Health care down our throats at a time when we were on the brink of Financial collapse. This budget battle you keep hearing about is the Republicans trying to deny funding for this piece of #$%$ legislation.

The Year in Obama Scandals -- and Scandal Deniers
By Michelle Malkin – 8 hrs ago

With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May — while Operation Fast and Furious subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill — that "one of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals." Conveniently, he defines scandal as a "widespread elite perception of wrongdoing."

So as long as left-wing Ivy League scribes refuse to perceive something to be a scandal — never mind the actual suffering endured by the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose death came at the hands of a Mexican cartel thug wielding a Fast and Furious gun walked across the southern border under Attorney General Eric Holder's watch — there is no scandal!

Self-serving much?

Mother Jones' Kevin Drum likewise proclaimed: "Obama's presidency has so far been almost completely free of scandal."

This after the year kicked off in January with the departure of lying eco-radical czar Carol Browner. In backroom negotiations, she infamously bullied auto execs to "put nothing in writing, ever." The previous fall, the White House's own oil spill panel had singled out Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence for the administration's Draconian drilling moratorium and "contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were."

The Interior Department inspector general and federal judges likewise blasted drilling ban book-cooking by Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who falsely rewrote the White House drilling ban report to doctor the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict.

In February, federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana excoriated the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He called out the administration's culture of contempt and "determined disregard" for the law.

This spring saw rising public anger over the preferential Obamacare waiver process (which I first reported on in September 2010). Some 2,000 lucky golden ticket winners were freed from the costly federal mandates — including a handful of fancy restaurants in Aloha Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district, the entire state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Nevada, and scores of local, state and national Big Labor organizations, from the Service Employees International Union and Teamsters on down. Meanwhile, as The Hill newspaper reported last month, other not-so-lucky Republican-led states seeking waivers, such as Indiana and Louisiana, were rejected.

But it wasn't just Republicans objecting to the president's arbitrary Obamacare fiats. In July, congressional Democrats turned on the monstrous federal health bureaucracy known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The constitutionally suspect panel — freed from normal public notice, public comment and public review rules — would have unprecedented authority over health care spending and an expanding jurisdiction of private health care payment rates.

Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, faced separate legal questions over her overseer role in a hair-raising document-shredding case when she served as governor of Kansas. In October, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. Bombshell court filings showed that Kansas health officials "shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces" and failed to disclose it for six years.

That same month, Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Alter gushed: "There is zero evidence ... of corruption. Where is it?"

Alter's declaration of the "Obama Miracle" came just weeks after the politically driven half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus "investment" went bankrupt, prompting an FBI raid and ongoing criminal and congressional probes of the solar company funded by top White House bundler and visitor George Kaiser.

As Solyndra and an avalanche of other ongoing green subsidy scams erupted, so did the LightSquared debacle — a federal broadband boondoggle involving billionaire hedge fund managers and Obama donors Philip Falcone and George Soros. In September, two high-ranking witnesses — William Shelton, the four-star general who heads the Air Force Space Command, and National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Director Anthony Russo — exposed how the White House had pressured them to alter their congressional testimony and play down concerns about LightSquared's interference threat to military communications.

The White House continues to block efforts to gain information about the Federal Communications Commission's approval of a special waiver for the company, even as new government tests this month showed that the company's "signals caused harmful interference to the majority of ... general purpose GPS receivers."

The Obama White House closed out the year with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri demanding a probe of the smelly $443 million no-bid smallpox antiviral pill contract with Siga Technologies — controlled by big lefty donor Ron Perelman. Then there was the small matter of massive voter fraud in Indiana, where a Democratic official resigned amid allegations that "dozens, if not hundreds," of signatures were faked to get Obama on the state primary ballot in 2008. And while Americans busied themselves with the holidays, White House and Democratic campaign officials were dumping more than $70,000 in contributions from another deep-pocketed contributor — scandal-plagued pal and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who oversaw the collapse of MF Global.

All this — and so much more — yet erstwhile "conservative" journalist Andrew Sullivan of Newsweek/The Daily Beast scoffed, "Where are all the scandals promised by Michelle Malkin?"

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-scandals...080000176.html

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If any of these happened under Bush what would the media be saying? If all of them happened under Bush he would have never won re-election, because the media would have talk about each one every newscast every day.

2012 : A Year of Media Savagery
By Brent Bozell III – 8 hrs ago

For those Republican presidential candidates who eventually conclude there is no path to the nomination, there is consolation in the notion that they won't be the ones to face the brutal onslaught being prepared for the GOP king-of-the-mountain by team Obama and its army of "objective" media allies.

This time around, the Obama machine cannot run on the fairy dust of hope and change. It cannot suggest after four years of dreadful executive-branch performance, that the promised one is on the horizon.

Its only path to victory is the one that finds its opponents even more disliked. So it can be guaranteed that whoever wins the Republican contest will face one of the most scorching personal assaults the country has ever witnessed.

Occasionally, the old style, thrill-up-my-leg over Obama quote still emerges. The Media Research Center's 2011 winners of "Best of Notable Quotables" provide examples. Stephen Marche of Esquire magazine won over judges of the "Obamagasm Award" by energetically asking "Can we just take a month or two to contemplate him (Obama) the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-'70s Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement?" At least when people said this in 2008, it hadn't been completely disproved. Marche reminds us of Baghdad Bob, the ridiculous propagandist for Saddam, proclaiming the defeat of allied troops while they emerged around the corner.

Marche actually claimed we will look back decades from now and see "a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph." Someone hearing Marche declare this might rush him to an emergency room for signs of dementia.

The winner of MRCs "Media Hero Award" came forward as the congressional career of Anthony Weiner was about to end after having demonstrated his contempt for his wife by showing off his body parts all over Twitter (and actually exchanging tweets with high school girls).

ABCs Barbara Walters urged Weiner not to resign, citing as her role model the most shameless, brazen sex offender to ever darken the White House door. "And we had a President named Bill Clinton who went through a great deal of trouble, weathered the storm and is now not only respected, but he's beloved by many people with a very good marriage. So, I think Anthony Weiner should hang in there." Bad word choice — hang .

ABC is chock full of nonsense like this. Diane Sawyer, their evening news anchor, won the "Occupy My Heart and Soul Award" for lathering praise on the anti-capitalist park squatters. "We thought we'd bring you up to date on those protesters, the Occupy Wall Street movement," she panted. "As of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica." There are some 190 countries on Earth, but Sawyer earned points on the left for enthusiastic baloney. Days later, Sawyer restrained her hype to "more than a thousand cities around the world." Anywhere two hippies lifted a sheet of tagboard, they were counted as a part of the burgeoning global "reform" movement.

Katie Couric finally conceded her utter failure as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in May, but she won the "Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis" by concluding America was so deeply bigoted and consumed by "seething hatred" toward the world's Muslims that we need a sitcom to straighten ourselves out. "Maybe we need a Muslim version of 'The Cosby Show.' ... I know that sounds crazy. But 'The Cosby Show' did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of things they don't understand."

Loathing of Obama was still classified daily as transparent racism. Sean Penn won the "Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity" by reading Tea Party minds on CNN and projecting murder fantasies: "You have what I call the 'Get the N-word out of the White House party,' the Tea Party.... At the end of the day, there's a big bubble coming out of their heads saying, you know, 'Can we just lynch him?'"

The transition from Obama adoration to Republican defenestration was exemplified by Chris Matthews on MSNBC. He earned the "Mean-Spirited, Nutty, Blathering Chris Award" for just blurting out against Newt Gingrich, "But he looks like a car bomber. He looks like a car bomber, Clarence. He looks like a car bomber. He's got that crazy Mephistophelian grin of his. He looks like he loves torturing. Look at the guy! I mean this is not the face of a president."

But the real award-winning quote (for denying liberal bias) was this delusional Matthews gem captured by Politico: "Hardball is absolutely non-partisan."

2012, here we go.

http://news.yahoo.com/2012-media-sav...080000358.html

New Obama Campaign Theme: Just a Dude
By Doug Powers • December 29, 2011 01:10 PM

In 2008, voters were promised that a vote for the candidate of Hope & Change would mean the rise of the oceans would slow, the hungry would be fed, the jobless would have jobs and Kardashian marriages would last more than a week. This led some Americans to believe that they would no longer have to worry about paying for their mortgages and gas anymore, while causing others to get thrills up their legs.

The hero-worship soon faded as the gathered post-inaugural throng watched their high-flying Superman get sucked into the jet engine of reality. The administration, in recognition of that problem, is changing themes this time around. Our hero’s cape and halo are being shed and replaced this election year by a bowling bag and a six pack of Busch Light. “Just a dude” has arrived: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...an-just-a-dude

…the president’s 2012 campaign has a new Joe Sixpack theme: “He’s just a dude!”

Softening his image and making him appear more approachable than his whining White House press corps—kept far from his Hawaii vacation stops—suggests, the campaign is distributing a short interview with one of President Obama’s donor dining guests who said his host was far from Superman.

“He’s just a dude!” says Casey Helbling, who attended Obama’s hot dog dinner with low-dollar donors in northern Virginia last October. “It was great to have a frank conversation with him, to realize that he’s not Superman,” he added.

The campaign is using Helbling’s interview, and emails from the president, first lady and even former presidential “body man” Reggie Love to promote his second donor dinner for the campaign. Aides say that the dinners are extremely successful in raising money and energizing supporters.
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Presenting the president as just a regular dude is a smart move, according to Democratic advisors, who are concerned that the president hasn’t connected well with middle-income Americans, especially men.

While on vacation in Hawaii, a strategy is being tweaked that will make Just a Dude — or maybe “The Big O-Bowski” works better — more approachable to regular joes: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/201...iors-dine-260/

Diners have been trying to takes pictures of POTUS, only to be chased off by advance staffers.

Okay, they didn’t say the “approachable dude” thing was going to start today.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/29/o...n-just-a-dude/

At least Newsweek is honest
Posted by: Phineas on January 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/20...eek-is-honest/

This really is what the intelligentsia in the MSM, academia, and the leadership of the Democratic Party think of most of the nation:



I don’t know about you, but I prefer this honest contempt to the patronizing variety we usually get.

For those not familiar with Andrew Sullivan, he had been blogger for The Atlantic, until he went off the deep end with wild conspiracy theories about THE TRUTH behind the birth of Trig Palin. Now he writes, supposedly as a conservative, for (what’s left of) Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

But we’re the dumb ones.

via Newsbusters http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...ritics-so-dumb

UPDATE: Joel Pollak asks, “Why is Andrew Sullivan so dumb?” http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/201...llivan-so-dumb

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...#ixzz1jkgvaxyy

Interesting, it's in the comments.

maybe a parody ... maybe not ...

4/4/2012


President Obama’s marvelous speech

Filed under: 2012 Election— Karl @ 6:26 am

Yesterday, President Crankypants lectured his base http://campaign2012.washingtonexamin...-speech/461406 — news editors — on the “social Darwinism” of the House GOP budget and likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney. If you want a point-by-point rebuttal, Guy Benson has it for you http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybens...rst_speech_yet If you prefer wry mockery, Allahpundit is your man http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/0...ge-of-our-age/

However, Pres. Obama gave a marvelous speech, as Howard Fineman helps explain: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...tml?1333485383

President Barack Obama is leading in the polls, particularly in swing states. The economy is, in some ways, recovering impressively from the mega-meltdown of 2008-09. The Republican Party is poised to nominate Mitt Romney, a man with no public political skills who wants to install an elevator in his garage and has an uncanny ability to generate fear and loathing among many of his party’s most ardent grassroots activists.

Yet Obama, who essentially kicked off the general election season on Tuesday at an annual gathering of newspaper editors, was a grim-faced candidate. No “Happy Warrior” was he. His hair growing grayer by the day, his lips tight and jaw clenched, the president seemed to be looking forward to the campaign with all the joy of a teen combatant in “The Hunger Games.”

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But the main reason for Obama’s grim mood Tuesday was the political strategy that he and his aides have decided to pursue. The president did not much bother to tout his administration’s achievements. Instead and not by accident, he spent most of his podium time crying havoc about the GOP candidates, the Republican House budget and even what he regards as the danger the Supreme Court will act irresponsibly on health care.

Unlike Fineman, you probably noticed the cognitive dissonance from the lede to the paragraphs which followed. The conclusions Fineman avoids drawing from his observations are the most important thing about Obama’s speech.

As far back as last September, Team Obama has been claiming the 2012 election is a choice between two candidates, rather than a referendum on Obama. http://www.boston.com/Boston/politic...g3O/index.html The claim is technically true, but generally unhelpful to the incumbent as a practical matter. The fact that elections generally present a choice of the lesser of two evils does not make for a good campaign theme. An incumbent president would much prefer to run on his record and a booming economy. Accordingly, Obama tried out an “America is Back” theme in his State of the Union speech. In late February, Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg found this approach produced disastrous results. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/2...s-of-recovery/

Seven months from the election, we find Obama regressing to play what Fineman calls the “Grim Warrior.” Tuesday’s speech announces to the world that Team Obama has no confidence the economy will improve much between April and November. Tuesday’s speech announces that Obama does not believe he can win on his record. Tuesday’s speech announces that Obama thinks he must convince voters mushy Mitt Romney is a radical extremist to win. Conservatives and libertarians may be disgusted by the text of Obama’s speech, but they should be delighted by the subtext.

http://patterico.com/2012/04/04/pres...velous-speech/


When you’ve lost Calvin Woodward... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...sson/?page=all

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And the grownups think me unhinged when BO an antiChrist:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/0...in-the-garden/

Let’s relieve him of the need to visit the office, give him a library, a budget, an SS detail, a pension, speaking fees and he won’t trouble us again.

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So the media has won one more time — they praised the more “moderate” Mitt over the crazy Santorum, Gingrich, etc … and now that he is winning … Mitt will be painted as a crazed fascist. It started yesterday, I guess.

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20.Good luck, daley. Remember that the real reason that Obama may win in 2012 is *not* the success of his campaigning or record.

It will be because of how Republicans are acting.

It gets people mad when I write that, but I’m not wrong. And I think they know it.

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27.Follow up question for bonus points, Jason–

Which of Reagan’s personal qualities, skills, and values do you see in President Obama that most lead you to conclude the American people will reward Obama in a “Reaganeaque” landslide in Novermber. Thank you.