Obama To Kick Off 2012 Re-Election Campaign With Focus On Economy [New Slogan: "Forward"!]

Obama To Kick Off 2012 Re-Election Campaign With Focus On Economy US president to outline plans for America's economic recovery at Ohio event billed as official start to his re-election campaign

President Barack Obama will hold the first official campaign event of his re-election bid on Saturday by delivering a speech in the vital swing state of Ohio.

Speaking before a crowd at Ohio State University in the state capital, Columbus, Obama will seek to re-ignite the popular enthusiasm that propelled him to a historic victory in 2008.

However, his task is far from easy. More than three years of governing during a time of two foreign wars and the economic devastation of the recession provide a very different backdrop for the Obama campaign of 2012 that is seeking a second term for America's first black president.

Gone is the "Hope and Change" slogan of 2008, to be replaced by the more serious and sombre "Forward". It remains to be seen how that message will go down, especially in Ohio, a key bellwether of national American opinion. Since 1904 there have been 27 US presidential races, and in 25 of them whoever won Ohio also took the White House.

A glance at the polls in Ohio shows that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can rest on their laurels. The most recent voters' survey, taken by polling institute Quinnipiac just last week, showed that Obama is just two points ahead of Romney. That sort of tiny gap promises that the coming battle for Ohio – and thus the White House – is going to be a long and fierce one.

Obama will likely focus on his dragging the country out of recession, even if the jobless rate remains around the 8% mark and job creation is still anaemic.

Earlier, on another thread, I shared the following link to Eugen Richter's satire entitled, "Pictures of the Socialistic Future,".

Richter's work illustrates the fact that in every century throughout human history there have been those who, like Obama, envision a sort of utopian future in which persons like themselves get a shot at ruling the society by foolinig others into becoming dependent upon them and their "superior" wisdom (sarcasm).

When one looks around at what has happened to America already, and the degree to which the backward "forward" ideas of "progressives" have dimmed the light of liberty which once beamed from America, then Richter's pages take on new meaning.

Click on any of the segments and find something relevant to today's discussions. Please note that this exquisite bit of satire by Richter was written in 1893.

Coincidentally, in "The New Laws" section, he satirically comments that the "organ" (i. e., "Pravda") under the new order is called "Onward." How interesting is that?

Other sections describing family, work, etc., in a world centered around a philosophy devoid of religious or spiritual thought, as well as individual freedom, ought to stir deep feelings in the hearts of most who have memories of a different time.

Had most of us read this writer's work twenty years ago, it might not have the chilling effect it does today. After the last 3 years, however, the descriptions of life in a "socialistic future," as described, even in satirical terms, is current as today's news, and too realistic to be amusing.

Obama's new campaign video,"Julia," does not represent what it means to be a truly independent woman in America. There has been a long line of strong and influential real women who preceded her, perhaps beginning with Abigail Adams--women who helped to articulate the ideas of individual liberty and opportunity for themselves and their posterity, not dependency on government's fickle politicians and bureaucrats.

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