Posted on 09/07/2011 3:31:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The once-muscular presidency of Barack Obama has undergone a dramatic downsizing in power, popularity, prestige and ambition to the point where even Obama die-hards are starting to question his ability to right the economy or win reelection.
Three polls in a single day Tuesday all told the same sorry tale the avatar of hope and change, the slayer of Osama bin Laden, the president with dreams of a billion-dollar reelection campaign - is losing popular support and bleeding political power fifteen months ahead Election Day.
He has sort of lost the sense of power and mystique of the presidency, says longtime Obama ally Andy Stern, former president of the powerful Service Employees International Union. Theres also a sense that people arent scared of him. Thats very dangerous.
Obamas allies say hes been through the fire before and will emerge stronger once the contrast between his jobs policies and those of the Republican field become clearer.
They were using the Incredible Shrinking President thing against Bill Clinton too, and what did he do? Win re-election by a landslide, said Neera Tanden, chief operating officer with the liberal Center for American Progress.
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Precisely! He isn't just a socialist, he is an incompetent socialist. He is incapable of actually understanding, let alone doing the job, and he compensates by lashing out at others, and falling back on the race card.
He is now played out.
The question is, what will the DNC do? If they push him out for 2012, they have lost the black vote (possibly for many cycles). If they don't push him out, he drags the entire ticket down, as his base won't vote against him, they'll just not vote.
His tailor and shirtmaker do an incredible job of hiding the fact that the president is now virtually skin and bones. His head is looking way out of proportion to his body and would look worse if it wasn't for all the padding in his suits.
No wonder we don't see the formerly plentiful pics of him in basketball and swimming togs. No wonder he munches on ice cream cones at every opportunity.
Leni
Stern apparently intended that to mean that Republican legislators are not scared of him, which, contrary to Stern's thinking in fact is "a good thing".
Unfortunately, the truth is that the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians and the North Koreans and their ilk are not scared of him. That's where the actual danger lies.
Oh God I hope not. Then I’d have to hear his name every day for the rest of my life. I’d much prefer to just let him fade away and eventually end up as a mere footnote in history.
his secret gay lifestyle is catching up with him. He will die of AIDS, bet money on it.
” to the point where even Obama die-hards are starting to question his ability to right the economy or win reelection.”
In all seriousness is there even ONE freeper who DID NOT predict exactly this before this zero took the oath?
Quite frankly after this Labor Day’s rhetoric fiasco...we need to be aware they are turning this election cycle into a third world election. Talk of things like being at war with fellow Americans and taking them out etc. is dangerous speech.
If members of the TEA Party spoke like that at any of our rally’s...we’d be in jail for incitement or worse.
Seriously consider if Hoffa had said those words at a TEA event in regards to the democrats, liberals, or the regime. He would have been arrested on the spot.
WE need to keep marginalizing 0bama at every turn. Make 0bama and the regime change, not the American people.
Marginalize him and cause him to shrink from the landscape of American during an election year. Effective move.
WHAT!! Obambi might write an Actual Bill???
What a unique idea, the President proposes an actual bill! Maybe it's time to take the training wheels off, and let him ride his bike, without even wearing a diaper.
Look for a major scandal to break in the press...the left are eating their own and Obama’s gotta go!
So this is the beginning of a year long temper tantrum byu the left..it's gonna get worse....enjoy it..because it means we are winning...
All the disasters that have befallen the country due to Obama were predicted even before he was elected. We, all conservatives, knew what a catastrophe this man would be. Many also predicted he would not seriously change the Bush foreign policy. He didn’t. So if we can just get the Obama who aped the Bush foreign policy to ape the part of the Bush domestic policy, cutting taxes and removing restrictions on business, he might get re-elected. Especially if he cut spending one thing Bush failed to do. But the doing those things would destroy his reputation with his radical base. He simply cannot do them. It’s not in his dna to diminish government power. Even though it might get him re-elected.
George: “Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things.
I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.
Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ‘cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are.
Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.”
Billy: “Well it don’t make them running scared”.
George: “No, it makes them dangerous”.
The only thing that should have been embarrassing about the speech deal was the fact that Bozo is supposed to ask permission to address a joint session of congress. He has no right at all to TEll congress he is going to address them on any given day. The President is supposed to request a date and then only for national emergencies. So his whole stick on telling congress he was going to address a joint session and telling them the day and for something as trivial as a campaign speech(which we all know it is)was just so much blustering and trying to throw his weight around. Bonehead would have been within his rights to tell Bozo that no days were open for something as mundane as a jobs speech.
Odd that they didn't mention that Time also did a similar cover for Clinton in 1994....
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