Posted on 08/09/2011 9:00:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Obama faced an imposing figure Monday as he tried to reassure Americans that the U.S. economy will rebound, and overcome a downgrading of its credit rating: the 2008 version of himself.
The president’s pitch Monday—all that’s needed is a little “common sense and compromise”—was a far cry from the soaring rhetoric and optimism of his candidacy three years ago. And the first voters after Monday’s statement—Wall Street investors—weren’t entirely sold. The Dow Jones average fell 634 points Monday, with Obama’s words doing little to stop the downward momentum.
Right now, Obama is facing his toughest challenger, and that is the Obama of 2008 who inspired a nation with his call for “change you can believe in.”
Disappointed liberals are among Obama’s harshest critics. They feel he’s given away too much to conservatives, and they don’t understand where his gifts of intellect and oratory are now that the country is looking to him for a bold plan forward that can take the economy out of the doldrums.
The dimming enthusiasm for Obama could have serious repercussions for his reelection if disappointed liberals, young people, and minorities don’t come out in the numbers they did in 2008.
Democrats are searching for the Big Idea that can carry an election. School construction, says one skeptic, “might appeal to some editorial writers, but nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, I’m going to the barricades for that.' It’s not an automatic bell ringer.” If that’s the standard, it could be a very long election year.
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When Eleanor Clift starts burying Obama, you know he is in big trouble.
Fed Defecit as % of GDP when Bush leaves office 69%
Fed Defecit as % of GDP when after 3 years of President 0 97%
No amount of shameless obfuscation, demogagary or shrill hysteric whorship from you Dem-bot Media types can cover up the facts of this issue.
0 broke the US Economy. He ownes it.
Obama is preapred to offer -- "Spend more, Tax more, Defund the military."
Nothing new for the Democrats since at least 1972. Obama is an ideologue, he is not capable of any Big Ideas. All he can do is push the tired old ideology that was crammed into his head decades ago.
Eleanor Clift is a far-left lying, hatemongering columnist.
She should be ignored.
This exposes their most fundamental problems...
God knows I wish we could pass a POTUS Lemon Law..... /s =.=
Eleanor Clift is a weather vane into the liberal mind. Seriously, read the whole article and you will see that they are all about: getting re-elected, marketing, perception, framing, and group consciousness. There’s nothing to these people other than Madison Avenue PR tricks to consolidate power and control for it’s own sake.
Utterly without substance.
Huh? He's a communist, Elanor. He has no ideas that will work. He's toast in the next election.
This constant whining about inheriting a mess is simply an admission of personal failure.
It’s not a mudderflappin’ pony ride, it’s a tough job and obumbles, the Affirmative Action figure, was NEVER man enough for the job....
SNL skit: “Eleanor! You ignorant slult!”
I'm shocked that such an empty suit can't turn his compilation of sophomoric platitudes and vapant bromides into effective policy.
Didn't see that coming.
Eleanor is lamenting the “Man of Hope” being buried by debt when, in reality, it is the American citizen that is buried by debt thanks to the Man of Hope. Sheesh!
elanor is today’s messenger from satan... the stench of brimstone always outs these demons.
LLS
“It was planned this way. Ohh, Mr. Soros will be sooo pleased!”
Man I hope he gets hit by a bus.
Nailed it.
They just want the power. They will say anything. They would do anything. They don't care about the "governing" part of the program -- they just want to sit in the big chair and feel important.
They are children. Very dangerous children.
LOL!!! He was so 'reassuring' that the market fell anoth 200 - 300 points immediately following his teleprompter reading. What a joke this buffoon has turned out to be.
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