No, the economy won’t turn around. But look at the polls. It shows 40% still love this guy? And I believe another 10%, at least, will vote for him when the time comes.
obama looked bad on this deal. It would have been nice if he would be looking bad in oct 2012.
I have no opiniion on any of this until I see the legislation. My default position is no debt ceiling increase but that was never going to happen with this group of Republicans so my approval depends on whether they’ve made our current problems worse or not.
The one thing I want to take issue with is this obsession over a debt ceiling fight next year. Who damn well really cares. The debt isn’t going to magically disappears and that remains an issue. The #1 issue next year is JOBS. That and gas prices are all voters will be focusing on.
We’ll see. I don’t think we could possibly have as bad a candidate as McCain.
Secondly, the press did NOTHING to vet Obama in 2008. We were coming off a disaster with Bush and people pissed about the wars. Obama will own this economy, his golden halo is long gone and euphoria about electing the first African American will be gone. This time around, people that actually voted for him might look for some substance, something many independents and even some Democrats now realize he never had but were caught up in the moment.
He needs a major turnaround to get elected unless we’re stupid enough to put someone like Bachmann or Palin in there, in which case he will coast to victory.