Does the killing of Osama Bin Laden secure Obama's Re-election? (Harry Reid, Ron Paul)
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If we stay on this same course as we now are then HELL NO. There is much needed work that needs to be done here, come on we have a very sluggish economy, high gas prices, a terrible housing market still, unemployment still high, we have a huge border patrol issue, that this administration and presdient, seems to think is just fine and dandy. There is much work to be done. And when Obama comes off from his high, i sure hope he starts tackling some of these issues.
I think it does secure another 4 years. Obviously things could change, but right now there isn't any good republicans and nobody can challenge him on National Security. Bin Laden was killed on his watch, but also the #1 and #2 Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq were also killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri d Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2010.
This has helped Obama's chances for re-election - to be sure! But it does not guarantee it.
I believe the American people vote their pocketbooks. If the price of gas at the service station goes beyond, say, $5 a gallon; and if the unemployment rate does not drop another percentage point or two, I do not think Obama will be re-elected.
Things like the health care reforms, same-sex marriage, the national debt, etc. have absolutely no effect on whether or not he will be re-elected.
Yeah Yeah....the Nation is on an adrenaline high now that Bin Laden has been killed. The Liberals are certain that their Messiah is "untouchable" and will be reelected in 2012.
What do you think?
Will this help his reelection goals or is it a short lived boost? When the reality of the OTHER problems our nation has become center stage again (and they will), will people forget or not care and be concerned more about the economy, unemployment, border security, healthcare, etc.
What the killing of Osama Bin Ladin proves beyond a shadow of a doubt is for some people in this country it doesn't matter what President Obama does they will continue to hate him.
As far as the death of Osama Bin Ladin guaranteeing that President Obama gets re-elected we've got a long way to go. I've saw a program today that a President usually gets about a 22 month ratings "Bump" from a major event. Sure it will help President Obama but the economy has to continue to improve to put him over the top.
The stock market performance is tied to Obama & Co.'s deliberate destruction of the dollar, and has no effect on the overall economy.
The housing market remains in the toilet, and all of Obama's preposterous attempts at attempting to resucitate can all be written off as abject failures.
The true unemployment rate remains in the mid double-digits, in spite of those hilariously absurd numbers being put out by the Feds.
Over the past three months, the rate of inflation has exploded to an annualized rate approaching 8%, which has been a fatal level to any President running for re-election.
Exploding prices for groceries and gasoline will certainly ensure his doom unless he has the guts to put a stop to Bernanke's idiotic and deliberate desecration of the greenback, which has certainly contributed to skyrocketing prices for gasoline, groceries, airfares and too many other items to mention, and all of which can be blamed explicitly on Obama & Co.
He's certainly proving to be just as illiterate regarding the relationship between tax increases and federal revenue (raise the former and the latter plunges, as history tells us time & time again) as numerous Democrats have repeatedly proven going back to FDR.
The most anemic economic 'recovery' in the history of this country won't save him either, and his HHS, EPA, DOJ & other ignorant goons are certainly no friends of the middle class in this country.
He was 'supposed' to be a boost for members of his race, but he's turned out to be a disaster for them.
The idiotic increase in the minimum wage (one of many job-killing policies he's created including boosting CAFE standards, as well as the ObamaCare disaster-in-the-making), putting the needs and demands of unions ahead of those of the rest of us (Boeing vs. the NLRB is extremely stupid, and another reason to encourage outsourcing), and his party's incomprehensibly stupid war against WalMart (and especially throughout Chicagoland) isn't doing them any good either.
Obama's only regret was that he couldn't put the operation off for another 15 months.
Obama's PC Coward "Burial at Sea" for this POS is going to haunt him. Obama shows more "concern" for the enemies of America by giving "Religous/Muslim rites for an undeserving animal.
Obama is more concerned with not offending people that behead others and blow up our troops, he's all for photo ops and fluff speeches for his campaign
Yeah Yeah....the Nation is on an adrenaline high now that Bin Laden has been killed. The Liberals are certain that their Messiah is "untouchable" and will be reelected in 2012.
What do you think?
Will this help his reelection goals or is it a short lived boost? When the reality of the OTHER problems our nation has become center stage again (and they will), will people forget or not care and be concerned more about the economy, unemployment, border security, healthcare, etc.
"W" soared to an all time high presidential approval rating of 90% (Gallup) following the 9/11 attacks. No president has ever topped that, yet he just barely edged out Kerry in 2004. BO has so far seen a 6% bump from the UBL killing. It may or may not go higher in the weeks and months to come, but with the cost of food and energy on the rise and unemployment making a come-back, he'll need more than a dead terrorist and heroic vision to pull it out.
No president in modern history has secured a second term with an approval rating below 53%. If the election were held today, even with the latest bump, he would most likely be facing a squeaker.
The advantage Obama does have (include most Democrats) is the ability to buy votes with stolen money. In no way do I underestimate the tendency of Americans to steal from the next generation and vote for those candidate who do the most stealing. Note the loss of popular support for the Tea party movement now that Tea Party endorsed and supported candidates who are now making good on their campaign promises to work to cut deficit spending.
Further complicating this issue is the lack of understanding by the voters of fundamental economic concepts. While voters may find themselves very displeased with the rising cost of food and all forms of energy, most will never connect federal deficit spending with $4/gallon gasoline, $3/lb tomatoes, high unemployment and stagnant wages. Democrats know enough voters are economically illiterate to make obfuscation and misrepresentation of the facts a politically practical alternative to taking the unpopular move of cutting spending.
The title of the thread is, "Does the killing of Osama Bin Laden secure Obama's Re-election?" and the question asked in the poll is, "Will the killing of Bin Laden help Obamas re-election goals?"....two different questions. The first asks if it guarantees his re-election and the later, just if it will help him get re-elected.
IMO come election day, the people that are going to factor this into why they voted to re-elect him, are the same people that are going to be adding this to a list of reasons as to why they voted to re-elected. In other words, they're his biggest supporters and were going to vote for him any way, regardless of what he does or doesn't do. The same holds true for his critics, they're not going to vote for him, regardless of what he does or doesn't do. Which leaves the rest of us, the people in the middle...the independents...and again, just my opinion but, I don't think it will mean much to them. It's not like this all of a sudden turned him into a military wizard...he signed off on it. He had the same decision to make when he sent more troops to afghan...his hands were tied in a way, just like they were then. If he didn't do this and ended up letting Obama get away and the media found out, it would have been a disaster for him in every way and especially politically. If it turned out we went in and he wasn't there, it would probably ended up in the news as another helicopter raid Pakistan claims the U.S. made. No one would have even known it was in an attempt to catch bin laden...heck, as it was they waited a week just to make sure before they let the media know he was dead....and they had no problem doing that.
Remember when Bush senior called the shots the on first Iraq war to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. I know it was an allied force but, we were in charge and it couldn't been done much better or quicker and it didn't help him win re-election. None of that mattered because he broke his promise.....remember..."read my lips no new taxes" and then he ended up raising taxes.
Last edited by Danno3314; 05-07-2011 at 07:59 AM..
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