Posted on 09/23/2011 11:26:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the President's poll numbers falling, Obama supporters have begun to send signals that the party might be better off if he chose not to seek reelection.
Several media stories have appeared recently suggesting that Obama could face serious challenges in the 2012 election and one newspaper in Chicago has suggested the President consider not running for re-election.
The Chicago Tribune, which previously endorsed Obama, featured a recent column by Steve Chapman, who said the President is under no compulsion to run for a second term. Chapman said, “He can scrap the campaign, bag the fund-raising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by January 20, 2013.”
The administration is also facing increasing pressure from various investigations. An investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, involving government officials permitting gun sales to Mexican drug cartels, now appears to be poised to reach into the White House itself. Moreover, Mexican authorities continue to express outrage at how the United States assisted the cartels in obtaining the weapons. The Mexican government has said the operation may have violated international law and has demanded the U.S. extradite the individuals responsible for the operation to face trial in Mexico.
There are also recent issues involving Solyndra, a failed solar energy company that the administration had touted as an example of how the stimulus package was creating and saving jobs.
Investigators have expressed concern over the procedures used to obtain the loan. Government e-mails appear to indicate that despite reservations, federal employees were pressured by the Obama administration to approve a $535 million loan to the company.
The Daily Beast has reported that General William Shelton, Commander of the Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, told lawmakers during a classified briefing that the “White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor.”
In February, the company’s loan was restructured by the administration to allow private investors to recoup their losses ahead of the American taxpayer. This restructuring may have violated federal law.
President Obama has indicated that he would be content with being a one-term president. During an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, in Jan. 2010, Obama said, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.”
Obama echoed this sentiment again this summer. During a “Today” show interview, he said if he decided not to run for a second term, his family would have been “fine” with his decision.
What may have escalated the statements calling for Obama to not seek reelection is the Republican victory in New York’s district 9 House race last week. District 9 is a solidly Democratic district which the party had held since 1923. In spite of these advantages, the Republican candidate handily beat his counterpart.
Critics have said the President's recent actions have caused him to lose moderate voters and have damaged his standing among several key constituencies. The district 9 vote was considered by some to be repudiation of President Obama's policy towards the state of Israel. The administration has previously called for a return to 1967 borders and condemned Jewish settlements in parts of Jerusalem while advocating dividing the city up and giving a portion of it to the Palestinians.
Appearing on CNN, Democratic strategist, James Carville, said the White House should “panic” over the District 9 election.
Carville said, “What should the White House do now? One word came to mind; panic.” Carville went on to say the administration needs to make a drastic change to its economic and political polices. Carville recommended Obama fire and indict individuals for their handling of the economy.
Recent polls show that Obama’s poll numbers are also falling when matched against specific Republicans. A McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama trails Sarah Palin by only five points. What is interesting, is while the numbers are close, the same poll shows 72 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independents opposing Palin’s entry into the race.
A Gallup poll shows a significant number of voters choosing Mitt Romney over Obama. The poll results say that 62 percent of voters would either vote or consider voting for Romney, while just 54 percent would vote for the President. That is only one percentage point higher than Texas Governor Rick Perry, at 53 percent.
If President Obama were to not seek reelection, he would be the first president to do so since LBJ. Recent fundraising actions by the campaign do not indicate the President is considering such a move.
Recently, the campaign even sent out another e-mail offering a raffle giving donors an opportunity to have dinner with the President. The campaign has boasted its goal of raising a record $1 billion for this election cycle.
The question is, if the President were to bow out of the race, who would be the Democratic nominee? Most pundits agree that the most likely prospect would be Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. A recent poll shows that Hillary Clinton is far more popular than the President himself.
Moreover, with Hillary Clinton engaged in diplomatic efforts around the globe, she would carry very little of the baggage of the past three years. As Secretary of State, Clinton has had nothing to do with the recent health care bill, the stimulus package or any of the administration scandals.
I’m more afraid of the Hildabeast than the zer0. Perhaps they’re gonna team up?
Scary stuff.
“Recent fundraising actions by the campaign do not indicate the President is considering such a move.”
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Of course not.
Obumbo and Moochelle are not about to kill the cow till
it dries up.
My question is....Does a narcissist ever recognize when
his time is up?
Bingo.
I said this very thing days ago. The curcumstances for Hillary Clinton couldn't be better. In fact, they're ideal.
Hillary Clinton is going to make a run for the Presidency, regardless wha Obama does.
“What is interesting, is while the numbers are close, the same poll shows 72 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independents opposing Palin’s entry into the race.”
Ain’t it interesting that even though Sarah Palin isn’t even in the race, they continue to tell us that nobody wants her to run?
Whether Sarah runs or not, isn’t really the point here. The point is that the media and elites are working overtime trying to pick both the GOP and DNC candidates again. My biggest fear is that WE will let them succeed again.
My advice to concerned Americans:
Don’t listen to the talking heads; don’t believe what you read or see in the media; ignore all the political polls. Use your heads and think for yourselves this time.
The damage is done.He may move on leaving us with the mess to straighten out over the next 10 years or so.
Naaaaah. ZERO isn't suicidal (yet) with the still lethal FOB (Friends of Bill) waiting in the wings to put him six feet under.
Of course we know that they're doing it to save political face. But still, you know things are not going well in this country when we reach this point.
my how the mighty has fallen..
Obama has a lot of faults. I think stubbornness is one of them. He strikes me as the kind to lie, feint, and then stick to his original plan. He’s a slippery SOB.
My guess is when the Dems try to slide him out, he’s going to be truculent about it. He’s the messiah, don’t these people know.
Another illegal action by President Trainwreck (having a raffle across state lines)
It may be that the bigO is so petty, he doesn’t know the
laws and he thinks a raffle going across state lines is
no big deal....consider his political background...no
experience as a leader, just a well spoken person, his
idea of political leadership is finding a government program
to fund his ideas(isn’t that what “community organizers” do?)
It’s also so SAD to see the Dems and the general mainstream
media always looking for some type
of political saviour, so badly, that they backed this
absolutely political, and leadership-wise, incompetent man.
I don’t believe he will be a two-term president or a
good one-term president. Hope the change comes soon
enough.
If they really want him to step down , why are they still following his lead?
Democrats should be bucking him all the way. They aren’t.
Obama isn’t about to step down and I will not believe they are trying to convince him to until I see Democrats attacking Obamacare, and a stop to raising the debt limit.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a dark corner of D.C., Joe Biden is persuading himself that he might have a shot at the presidency. He’s probably searching the internet for campaign speeches to plagiarize.
As they should.
You had better listen Mr. Obozo. Presiding over the most corrupt administration in history you are vulnerable to being removed from office AT WILL.
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