By: Jeffrey Klein, Political Buzz Examiner
Examiner.com
The news wires have been abuzz about President Barack Obama’s political strategy for 2012, in his bid for re-election in November 2012.
His “secret” weapon?
Contrast and “distance” himself from Congress.
Deputy White House Press Secretary, Joshua Earnest, told reporters, who were covering President Obama’s nineteen day vacation in Hawaii that … “In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012, the state of the debate, if you will, the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.,” according to a FOX News article from New Years Eve.
The Obama White House has always been a wealth of irony…
Actually, since Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address in January 2009, just two weeks after the 47 year old junior Senator from Illinois was inaugurated as President of the United States, there is barely enough reporting to suggest that he has had any relationship with Congress.
The Obama administration has only produced one annual budget document–about one year ago–filled to the brim with out-of-control liberal program spending, which was soundly defeated in a unanimous bi-partisan vote in the Senate.
Of course, the Democrats had just suffered the worst political shellacking in almost 70 years, as a result of the brand new, spend thrift “force de ‘Tea Party,'” in the 2010 mid-term elections, which gave Republicans control of the House, and took away Democrats filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
Mr. Earnest’s statement of “no longer tied to Washington, D.C.” seems like more a retrospective, as to this point in time, President Obama has spent more time on Air Force One flying [his family] around the world, playing more rounds of golf and taking more vacation time [in elegant locales] than any other president before him in history.
Leadership is not a word that has been widely associated with Barack Obama, unless you count the people from the Nobel organization in Sweden who selected him to be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2009.
Mr. Earnest made another statement to the same reporting pool that was “curious,” regarding the way President Obama intends to “position” himself … “We’re going to be doubling down on our commitment and our message in terms of fighting for the middle class.”
If by “middle class” President Obama means the dwindling Public and Private Unions that have sucked the life out of most companies and governments, resulting in unmanageable budget deficits and bankruptcies, while having no affect whatsoever on the unemployment rate in three years, after having increased the national debt by $5 trillion–it is probably a really bad idea.
During the first two years of the Obama administration, when they had complete control of the federal government, he chose to expend virtually all of his political capital on passage of “Obamacare,” which American voters [including those still unemployed] have roundly opposed since the beginning, according to the weekly Rasmussen Poll Reports.
Earlier in the year President Obama said that he was proud his hard won healthcare act had been nicknamed “Obamacare,” however, according to former Democrat Strategist Doug Shoen … “The health care law is unpopular, especially among swing voters … So the White House wants to say as little as possible about it.”
Too little, too late–Obamacare is tied firmly around his neck.
Finally, Earnest’s ill chosen words let slip the “core” of the White House 2012 strategy…
“So in terms of the public’s conception of what’s happening in Washington, D.C., you have an image of a gridlocked, dysfunctional Congress, and a president who’s leaving no stone unturned to try to find solutions to the difficult financial challenges and economic challenges facing this country.”
The public’s true conception is being camouflaged by a coordinated mainstream media and their conspiring pollsters, much like they attempted back in the 1980 contest between incumbent President Jimmy Carter (D) and California Governor Ronald Reagan (R).
Up until just 3 days before the election, they judged it an even money race…
Governor Ronald Reagan won 49 states in a “landslide,” after Carter conceded defeat–before the votes in California were even counted.
Solid polling of 1,000 “likely voters” indicates that the Republican candidate will be victorious over incumbent President Obama by a margin of 47 to 39 percent–that is the true public conception as of December 27, 2011.
So, is President Obama’s 2012 political strategy really just a prayer?
Copyright (c) 2012 by Jeffrey Klein
