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| -Election 2012 |
| How Could Obama Lose? |
| 2012-07-29 |
| With 100 days left in the presidential campaign, perhaps the two most vexing questions in American politics are: How could President Obama possibly lose? And, how could he possibly win? Americans are scared, angry and struggling. They used to talk about job satisfaction; now they talk about just holding on to their jobs. No incumbent since FDR has ever won reelection with unemployment numbers remotely resembling today's. What voters feel about their lives and dreams in the months leading up to an election tends to stick to the president when they enter the voting booth. And right now what's sticking to Obama isn't good. Nevertheless, it's not his fault! But it sure helps to face a candidate as uncomfortable in his own skin, as likely to say by accident what he really means and as wrong for the times as Mitt Romney. If Obama offers what well-paid elites call a "jobless recovery," Romney offers the only thing worse: a promise to restore the policies that led to the joblessness that made a recovery necessary. What's that? Democratic-mandated housing for those who can't afford it? So, beyond the anemic economy, why do the latest polls show the former Massachusetts governor in a dead heat with the president? Because Obama's administration made three crucial errors that enabled the Republican obstructionism that has tied his hands for the past two years, with GOP leaders shooting down any idea -- even if it's one of their own -- that might have helped the president strengthen the economy. See, this guy - and a great many others in the MSM - seem to forget: the evil republicans blocking the Lightbringer were all elected by the people! I guess those rubes just don't know what's good for them! Obama's first mistake was inviting the Republicans to the table. The GOP had just decimated the economy No, it was a bipartisan affair (see Freddie Mac, housing bubble, TARP, and the Fed) and had been repudiated by voters to such an extent that few Americans wanted to admit that they were registered Republicans. And those same voters gave the Pubs back the Congress two short years later. That rather negates the hypothesis here... Yet Obama, with his penchant for unilateral bipartisanship, refused to speak ill of what they had done. You obviously weren't listening... The American people wanted the perpetrators of the Great Recession held accountable, and they wanted the president and Congress to enact legislation to prevent Wall Street bankers from ever destroying the lives of so many again. Heavens to Betsy. I can't go on. One of us is insane, and it ain't me! Don't read any more if you have recently eaten. Second mistake: Stimulus too small, Trunks fault. Third mistake: It's hard to find, but seems to be that he failed to explain how wonderful his Obamacare really was for everyone. Maybe he hasn't finished reading the entire bill yet. For a 'Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry' at Emory University, the author seems rather .. emotional, no? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #9 Good point, grom. Sorta like preferring a syphalitic camel to Bambi, because syphalis can be cured.... |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-07-29 19:42 |
| #8 Is this dumb-a$$ for real? Apparently he didn't listen to the same news, read the same newspapers, listen to the same radio programs, or check out the same Internet sources I did, because he's told some whoppers here even David Axelrod wouldn't attempt. This guy's playing solitaire with less than half a deck. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2012-07-29 19:29 |
| #7 ...same as those Russians who think Stalin was such a great guy. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-07-29 19:21 |
| #6 I can't understand why anyone would vote for this guy with the terrible record he has had. The only thing I can figure is that they are getting a lot of free stuff, favors, and lots of promises. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-07-29 15:50 |
| #5 Yet Obama, with his penchant for unilateral bipartisanship "Eric, I won" lying asshats at the WaPo will pull out all the stops for their overlord |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-07-29 15:11 |
| #4 And is there a difference? It's been, in my moderate amount of experience, that to be a mental health issues expert, one generally has to have mental health issues to begin with. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-07-29 14:41 |
| #3 And is there a difference? Quite a large one: inmates can, at least in principle, be cured. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-07-29 13:58 |
| #2 Is this clown a "Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry" or an inmate in the psychiatric ward? (And is there a difference?) |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-07-29 13:13 |
| #1 The American people wanted the perpetrators of the Great Recession held accountable You bet. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd ought to spend the rest of their miserable lives in jail. |
| Posted by: NCMike 2012-07-29 13:03 |