Posted on 04/04/2011 7:17:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US President Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election campaign on a grand slogan: Yes we can. As the president prepares for his reelection in 2012, the question foremost in the minds of everyone is: Can he?
Obama began his bid for re-election in 2012 yesterday by releasing a campaign video on his website and sending an email to supporters. “We are filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign,” Obama wrote in the email. Though the race may not reach full speed for a year or more, the work of laying the foundation for the “campaign must start today”, the president added.
No reelection bid of a US president was as furious and controversial as Obama’s promises to be. This is because no US president has been as savagely attacked as Obama. Few have had the very circumstances of their birth or childhood questioned. Claims that the president was born outside the United States and that his worldview was shaped by a Kenyan heritage are espoused not by any fringe group, but by some leading conservatives.
In this scenario, Obama will have an extremely tough job to challenge the vilification campaign by his detractors and win back the confidence of voters. It must go to his credit that the virulence of attacks against him has subsided recently and his ratings have vastly improved from the abysmal low it had fallen into earlier. He will have to work assiduously to build on these gains. But even then, the odds against him are Himalayan.
The filing with the Federal Election Commission will allow the president to begin fundraising and other organizational efforts for his goal of winning a second term. Analysts who track fundraising say they expect the 2012 presidential election to cost $3bn, about 50 percent more than the $2bn the Federal Election Commission said was spent in 2008 by candidates, the political parties and outside groups. Obama raised a record $745m in 2007 and 2008 for his presidential campaign and was the first major-party nominee to reject public financing for the general election.
Even as he prepares for the battle ahead, the Republican nomination contest remains wide open, with potential candidates ranging from real estate developer Donald Trump to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Some of the other prospective Republican candidates include former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana, and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman.
As Americans prepare to judge Obama’s performance, the outside world too will do the same. This region, and the Muslim world, will wait to see if he can fulfill the promises he has made to them. There is still time to make amends and fill the holes.
We’ve been living in a parallel world.
In the real world Americans laughed at and rejected a
Candidate who wrote racist books against whites, attended for years a ‘church’ where hate for whites/jews and America was preached, whose mentors were Communists, Muslims and radicals, and who had no paper trail and no resume.
This may seem nuts, but I’m seeing large numbers of pro Gov. Cuomo ads praising his budget cutting andf holding the line on taxes. I think Andy is considering a run against Obama.
The bottom line of the article:
This region, and the Muslim world, will wait to see if he can fulfill the promises he has made to them. There is still time to make amends and fill the holes.
It would be interesting to have a list of the promises O made to the moslems world, and which remain unfulfilled.
Meanwhile, these moslems are not above guilt-tripping a brother moslem.
And in 2009, 2010, and into 2011, the grand realization became:
"We did what!?"
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