What has happened to him over the past month or two???? I get not liking Palin—I disagree but I get it. But this? He’s off his rocker.
Obama will get two years (Instead of being permanent, another political tool for the dems to play with) of the tax cut extension to hang over the heads of the American people, a one-sided arms treaty, and open a cornucopia of faggotry in the military. A good week if you are a politically savvy democrat and a beltway insider.
Kids - stay off drugs!
“He will never lose his base. Where would they go?”
Answer: they won’t vote just as in the last election
I think Obama’s big-government track record will make him less appealing to voters in 2012 than candidates that will run against him.
Americans are getting too lazy, too expensive and too unskilled. That’s why there are no jobs and there won’t be in 6 months or 2 years.
Spending doesn’t make money, productivity makes money. There’s a (not so) subtle difference.
The tax deal isn’t going to get him reelected if the economy still sucks.
“The greatest mistake Ronald Reagan’s opponents ever made — and they made it over and over again — was to underestimate him. Same with Obama. The difference is that Reagan was so deeply self-assured that he invited underestimation — low expectations are a priceless political asset — whereas Obama’s vanity makes him always need to appear the smartest guy in the room. Hence that display of prickliness in his disastrous post-deal news conference last week.
But don’t be fooled by his defensive style or thin-skinned temperament. The president is a very smart man. How smart? His comeback is already a year ahead of Clinton’s.”
I for one am sick of watching former Fritz Mondale speechwriter Krauthammer compare Obama favorably to Ronald Reagan and gush about Obama’s great intellect (of which there has been no evidence, empirical or historical), while continuing to lecture Sarah Palin on her lack of intellectual heft and to ignore the many times she has been far ahead of the curve on policy matters while Krautahmmer has been bringing up the rear.
Krauthammer’s gloomy column should demoralize no one. In an earlier column comparing Reagan to the current resident of the White House, Krauthammer saw the massive GOP gains in the House and the Senate as a silver lining for Obama that will help him in much the same way the GOP takeover in 1994 helped Clinton.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/15/AR2010071504593.html
The problem with that analogy is that Clinton’s overreach with HillaryCare and overspending failed in 1993-4, so the economy recovered enough for him to win. Clinton did not win BECAUSE of the GOP Congress. He was aided by the worst GOP candidate in a long line of bad ones, the ancient Bob Dole and further aided by the Perot candidacy which siphoned off 10% of the vote. Obama will have to face Sarah Palin, the lady whom Krauthammer told to “leave the room” for “debasing” the health care debate in July 2009 because she had the temerity to speak the truth about the death panels.
2012 will not be analogous to 1996, but much closer to 1980. If Ronald Reagan looks to you like Barack Obama, well...you’re wrong, but I can cut you a break since you never really knew Reagan and in fact actively opposed him.
But.... If Sarah Palin looks like Bob Dole to you, Charles, you really need to have your contacts cleaned.
Prepare to be wrong...again.
Charles,
You are a smart guy, but seriously? What are you smoking? Obama’s act of political expediency against his desires is not going to be viewed as a comback.. a recognition of the change of the playing field, but hardly a comback. At the same time he accepts the political reality on this one, he and the leftist lame duck congress are doing spit in your eye bills that most people don’t want before they are removed from power.. bills that Fauxbama will happily sign.
This is not a comback, or even the beginnings of one... its political theater, nothing more.
Fauxbama will not win the nomination of his party to be the candidate in 2012, let alone win re-election.
I think Charles just got so excited by Clinton’s remark that he felt compelled to write a piece of crap like this.
I knew this exact thing was coming, but I will confess some shock when I clicked onto the thread and saw the source.
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