It now becomes even clearer why so many of Obama's key team members have already bailed on him. They saw this coming.
Yup. I was surprised to see Emanuel leave BEFORE the election. Things must have been really bad and there have been reports here and there over the past year that Obama is not taking Emanuel's advice about moderating and taking things slowly rather than full bore. The Chicago mayor thing was a convenient excuse. No reason he couldn't have explored a run for mayor while still being in the WH.
Hillary will resign in a few months, There are already reports to that effect. The election loss cannot be blamed on her as she is not a political strategist for Obama and foreign policy is last on the list of voter concerns this time around. Being loyal to Obama will win her brownie points should she be looking to take the next step. She is loyal to say nothing else about her.
It's reported Axelrod is moving on as well.
Obama will not go willingly or easily. He's a divider and his last refuge will be cloaking himself as a minority, surrounding himself with minorities and claiming all against him are racists.
The preferred strategy to get him out of the way will be to target him in such a way that it can be blamed on Republicans-(birth certificate challenge). The GOP has to be extra careful not to get played for fools.
Once the take out Obama plan starts to gel, I will be interested in hearing Bernie Goldberg's take on it.
If he goes into that sort of bunker mode, even some blacks are going to withdraw their support from him. He'll look for all the world like a paranoid psychotic to most people, if he retreats behind the palace walls like that.
He may not want to go easily or willingly, but a retreat into the bunker will actually hasten and ensure that outcome. And there's every chance that the new Congress will cause him to become just that defensive, as they maneuver him into a position of impotency.
His chief lieutenants didn't need a crystal ball to see what's coming, so they've voted with their feet. I don't think it's terribly difficult to predict Obama's behavior over the next year or two.
The preferred strategy to get him out of the way will be to target him in such a way that it can be blamed on Republicans
Don't you just know it? That is the ONLY way for the Democrat party to keep the blacks on the plantation. If the majority of blacks even get the slightest suspicion that their own party is taking Obama down, there will be civil war on the left.
As you said, the Democrats need to pin the blame for Obama's downfall on the Republicans. I predict that they're going to do everything they can behind the scenes to help the Republicans take Obama down (while keeping their own fingerprints off the evidence, of course).
Poor Bozo. They're all agin 'im, now.