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One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012 This is a critical moment for the country. From the faltering economy to the burdensome deficit to our foreign policy struggles, America is suffering a widespread sense of crisis and anxiety about the future. Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political...

Veteran Democratic operative Pat Caddell is unloading on the White House, saying he’s had enough with the president whose “hypocrisy” on campaign finance “is just mind-blowing.” President Obama has made a point while campaigning to call out conservative-leaning groups for hurting the integrity of elections by not voluntarily disclosing donors. Caddell says Obama has no room to talk. “My problem with Obama started the day he blew up public financing of presidential campaigns,” Caddell said in an interview with The Daily Caller. “He’s the man whose done the most to destroy whatever integrity there was in campaign financing.” Obama declined...

Alternate headline: “Lame-duck Blue Dog free to admit what every other Democrat already knows.” The good stuff comes at the beginning, but if you give up before the end, you’ll miss him talking about what a horrible political miscalculation ObamaCare was. Yes, after 60 years of trying, they finally got a foot in the door of socialized medicine, but they knew the price they’d pay was steep. Did they know it’d be quite this steep, though? Kaus-ian Democrat-bashing Democrat Pat Caddell raises the stakes:

The enemy "TROJAN HORSE" in OUR White House and the Democrat's generation long charade "Working SO HARD" for the "weak and the downtrodden and maintaining a caring image without values of their own appears to be finally getting through to the average detached American. Pre-Revolutionary thinking mentioned by Democrat pollster Pat Caddell on the FOX NEWS Hannity program is the result of some previously "glazed over" unseeing eyes awakening. 

The Democrat party's approximately 60 plus year charade has FINALLY begun to backfire. About 35 years ago I personally began to see the simple signs, mainly how they had been perpetuating...

We see plans like Cap and Trade and know that it will result in more and more property flowing from the people to the government via fines and increased energy rates. We see ObamaCare and know it is less about helping people get treatment and more about consolidating power in Washington.The right has been watching from the sidelines for decades. But we have had enough.This is the New Right. We will no longer sit idly by and watch the left turn this country into a socialist utopia. The Tea Party movement is standing across the Bridge to Dependence like Gandalf...

Here is video of Sean Hannity talking with Ann Coulter and Democrat Pollster Pat Caddell about the future of the Democrat Party. Caddell said Democrats have to stop trying to "jam things through," and instead must begin to try and work with the other party. He does not agree with some Democrats - like Howard Dean - who say Democrats lost in Massachusetts because they have not been Left enough in how they have governed. Coulter pointed out that Scott Brown ran on being the "41st vote against ObamaCare," which makes it hard to believe he won because Massachusetts voters...

Here is video of Democrat Pollster Pat Caddell and writer David Horowitz talking about the Democrat Party and the condition of our nation at an event last month hosted by Horowitz called "Restoration Weekend." . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Democrat pollster Pat Caddell telling Glenn Beck that some of the things coming out of the Obama Administration make him wonder if Obama is really running the show. One example he gives is Obama's statement months ago that we need to "move on" and not focus on going after the past administration. But today, Attorney General Eric Holder is appointing a special prosecutor to go after CIA agents who conducted interrogations of terrorist suspects. Caddell says the current Democratic Party is "elitist," and they believe they know better than anyone else. Caddell said "Washington has made...

Wow, Glenn Beck goes after President Obama's chief of staff. How long will he remain on the air? There are important new links in Beck's story to the Obama elite and who they are. Also, notice former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell at Beck's side. Welcome to the fight, Pat. vodep at sote

Last week in this space there appeared a suggestion that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd leave the island of Manhattan and take a tour around the country so that she could try and figure out how the supremely stupid, arrogant, demolisher of the extra-Constitutional "wall" between church and state, President George W. Bush, somehow managed to slay another Democrat in a election. Among the recommended destinations was Miami, where Dowd could perhaps interview some Cuban-Americans who could tell her how off-base she is when she talks and writes of a Bush “jihad” in the United States and school her...

From FoxNews.com:We'll talk politics and preview the first presidential debate with "Treason" author Ann Coulter and former Democratic strategist Pat Caddell. Plus, which questions will be the hardest for the president and Senator Kerry to answer on Thursday night? "USA Today" columnist and author Walter Shapiro will join the debate with his provocative answers!

'Reporters Don't Know What They're Talking About' J$P Instant Transcript! Pat Caddell with Neil Cavuto on discrepancies among polls. From Your World with Neil Cavuto, September 17, 2004: NEIL CAVUTO [FOX NEWS]: My next guest is a former pollster himself, in fact of some renown, here. He says these discrepancies are something we should necessarily be wary about, because really you need to take a deeper look into the polls to see what's going on. Joining me now is Democratic strategist Pat Caddell. Pat, great to have you; thanks for coming. PAT CADDELL [DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST]: Great to be here Neil....