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Let's take the day off from picking over the ruins of our own miserable riots and try to cheer ourselves up over Barack Obama's good fortune. What good fortune? I hear you ask. Surely he has just been humiliated over the US budget debacle and the decision of a cowboy credit rating agency to tweak America's triple-A credit status. His standing in the polls is sagging, now below 40%.
Well, yes, that's all true. And he has not been a particularly brave or effective president either. Democrat or Republican, I'd be pretty disappointed, too. But election campaigns are about choice of both candidate and their policies. So Obama's luck lies in the near-unbelievable fact that the Republicans look determined either to pick a loser or refuse to vote for someone who could win.
the sweeping Republican gains in Congress in the midterm elections of 2010 were on the usual 40% turnout; Obama was elected in 2008 on a 61% turnout. Yet it is the Republicans who think they have a mandate from the American people. Enthusiasm rather than money – Obama had plenty of that too – decides these things, a willingness to vote.
On the evidence, Obama is well placed to win again once voters have had a chance to savour what the uncompromising 2010 Congress has done for them: not much. Give 'em Hell, Harry! Truman pulled it off in similar circumstances in 1948 by attacking the record of a pro-business, low-tax Congress; this Congress, says Warren Buffett, no less, is the friend of billionaires.
Winning shouldn't be too difficult – even for Obama, even in a double-dip recession, which we hope won't blight the US – or Tottenham.
dream on, my dear!
the process is just getting started so take a seat
as far as your guy Obama, he does not have a bats chance in hell if BOZO the clown ran against him!
some democrat lady the other day suggested we just "put off" the election for a couple of years so the president can focus on getting us out of the ditch he ran us in.....now that is about as defeated as you can be!!
I laughed my ass off at that one!
Obama must be peeing in his pants!!
so no, his election is about as sure as me winning the lottery~
Hi Ho it is out of the WH Obama goes!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!
dream on, my dear!
the process is just getting started so take a seat
as far as your guy Obama, he does not have a bats chance in hell if BOZO the clown ran against him!
some democrat lady the other day suggested we just "put off" the election for a couple of years so the president can focus on getting us out of the ditch he ran us in.....now that is about as defeated as you can be!!
I laughed my ass off at that one!
Obama must be peeing in his pants!!
so no, his election is about as sure as me winning the lottery~
Hi Ho it is out of the WH Obama goes!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!
Obama is not "My Man". I wish I had a candidate that was in line with everything that I believe, but at the end of the day, I, like most will end up picking the lesser of two evils.
The Polls are clear if the race were held today that Obama would win against any of the candidates running on the Republican side. I know in your world this is unimaginable, but those are the facts.
Personally, I would love for a good Republican candidate to step up and enter the race, but that just has not happened. I say good, meaning someone that I like, which would be a moderate candidate. A person with practical ideas but not an ideologue or a foreign interventionalist or a corporate shill.
Basically, I want an Eisenhower Republican. Oh those were the days.
I agree, and would love a 2011 Ike. I'd be delighted to see CC run. This group running is incredibly weak, and latest Fox poll shows no one has enough support to matter. They might as well add 100 more and each's poll numbers would show * (less than 1 percent!).
I agree, and would love a 2011 Ike. I'd be delighted to see CC run. This group running is incredibly weak, and latest Fox poll shows no one has enough support to matter. They might as well add 100 more and each's poll numbers would show * (less than 1 percent!).
Obama is not "My Man". I wish I had a candidate that was in line with everything that I believe, but at the end of the day, I, like most will end up picking the lesser of two evils.
The Polls are clear if the race were held today that Obama would win against any of the candidates running on the Republican side. I know in your world this is unimaginable, but those are the facts.
Personally, I would love for a good Republican candidate to step up and enter the race, but that just has not happened. I say good, meaning someone that I like, which would be a moderate candidate. A person with practical ideas but not an ideologue or a foreign interventionalist or a corporate shill.
Basically, I want an Eisenhower Republican. Oh those were the days.
there is no perfect candidate
I am voting for who ever it is
and no I am not pleased with much offered
part of why Obama won is b/c a lot of folks sat out the election making a statement
and a lot of them who voted for Obama just plain was too lazy to see who they were getting
he has turned out to be far worse that we ever thought!!
so excuse me for over reacting to your post
the only thing I know, is I do not want 4 more years of this yahoo
Ron Paul is the only one that I think would be a worse choice, but he does not have a bats chance in hell
maybe some really good folks are out there but they do not have the money
to run
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