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| Politico analysis: President Obama's big drags |
| 2011-08-05 |
| Privately, however, Obama’s team is concerned about the factors beyond its control, talking of an imminent need to retool their economic message and strategy heading into 2012. Absent the president’s ability to defy political gravity, one Obama adviser conceded, “The numbers add up to defeat.” Based on interviews with a wide array of top government and political officials, here’s why the adviser might be on the something: |
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| #3 IIRC FREEREPUBLIC ARTIC [rehash] > OBAMA: MY PRESIDENCY WILL BE A ONE-TERM PROPOSITION IFF THE ECONOMY DOESN'T TURN AROUND IN THREE YEARS. VICTORY = SUCCESS IN WAR, DIPLOMACY in the end still comes down to "BUTTER-N-EGGS" = "POCKETBOOK ECONOMICS", aka "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL", as the sayings go. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-05 21:06 |
| #2 Just getting the EPA and the Department of the Interior out of the way of the on-land oil drilling and fracking operations would add a couple of hundred thousand well-paying jobs in under 6 months; and those would translate into a lot more low-wage service jobs in the oil production areas. One bloody change is all that is needed, thank God Zero is too f**king arrogant to take notice of that. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-08-05 17:54 |
| #1 retool their economic message? How about doing something about retooling the fvcking economy? If this guy wasn't so locked into imposing his own statist view on everyone, he might figure out that the free market is not his enemy but his ally in digging the economy out of the $hitter. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-05 16:39 |