He actually compared himself to Reagon and admired him during his fake campaign. However, he completely ignored Clinton's record. Now his post 2010 election upheaval approval numbers are not even close to Clinton or Reagon approval numbers which were over 50 percent at this same time in their presidency. Insight into how this administration works- he views the Presidency as a commercial product! Campaigning may be about marketing, but being the executive means making the right decision no matter what. Obama is so concerned about perception and manipulation that he is incapable of making the right decision when he faces adversity. That is why he caves and acts in a petulant manner and is unable to stand up to opposition. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/us/politics/07campaign.html?_r=2&hp More in link above.
Those new rules mean little, if he stays in office he will find other ways of satisfying the left, this is all political posturing now. There is little he can do to change the economy by election, he is still the same guy.
Yes, he's the same guy that's why his approval is tanking, he looks on his role as a brand name. He is clueless.
He's an ideologue, that's why he will be stuck calling for us to do the same thing all over again as his plan.
I don't think he is even that, idealogues usually don't cave in. He's a typical politican doing things the Chicago way. It has been quietly announced all troops, except for 3000, to be released from Iraq. Too little, too late. Another desperate campaign strategy from the Chicago team.
So in other words... just like Clinton! This firedoglake stuff doesn't impress me. The Democratic Party is not going to be any more liberal on the national level for a long time. It will continue to be the New Democrat, shoot-for-the-center, watch the polls party as long as demographics remain as they are. The truth is that all successful politicians view decisions as marketing. That's how things get done. Hell, that's how it works in business! It doesn't matter if it works if it can be sold. It's not the way I like it, but what's the alternative? Abolishing elections? Look, to get things done you need a coalition. Liberals make up too small a group to be on the offensive. They aren't even a majority of Democrats! The best strategy for now is to keep being reasonable, heading for the center, until we can see economic improvement-- which makes people more open to liberal culture (even if not politics). In the mean time, let the right get extreme and alienate themselves-- their numbers are great enough to dominate their party but not to dominate America! Realistically, no policy passes if you can't get past the politics. And what do you imagine the alternative is? A liberal Democrat who can't possibly win? A Tea Party Republican who will work hard in the exact opposite direction (currently there's only one moderate GOPster in the race, and I don't see him winning the primaries regardless of what the press thinks)?
Oh ye so full of clues, his personal rating is still high, supported by nearly 75%, because everybody but the squeaky hate minority recognize he was handed sewage and the cons piled it higher with non-stop partisan obstruction and then stalling of the Obama recovery.
Hi Clueless - how's Obama's personal high ranking going for you and your ilk? The 'shoot themselves in their own feet' democratic party were lulled into stupidity after the win of Obama. They still think the majority of voters are stupid. They think if we just rebrand him and tell the voters he is not really like Obama, he is another person, they will be swayed. They certainly don't have to convince you, lonely Obama worshipper. They don't even have the cajones to even try and run another democratic contendor. This would mean that their whole strategy failed.
You are a cynic, and that's fine, if it works for you. You can continue to be a cynic while the democrats lose the presidential election, because they did not put the country first. They had their chance and they blew it, but you want to give them a pass, because that's how all politics work. That's the way the repubs did it, so now it's okay if the democratic party operates the same way. Not all voters are partisan hacks, they will switch associations just like that. Weiner was even too much for New York, imagine that. By the way Carlin is dead in the ground.
Obama is a fake and a fraud. He proves it every day. He told us straight out and people didn't get that he meant it literally. "We're gonna fundamentally change America". He hates capitalism. He's a Marxist. Time is proving me right.
There isn't enuf time in infinity to prove your silly allegations any where near correct. He's kicking con butts all over the country and will be in your face for 5 more years. No wonder you seem to have constantly sucked a bucket of lemons.
I get the point of the OP, and Java Black makes some realistic and intelligent observations. About this whole toothless Republican-lite Democratic party, I can't say there are any realistic alternatives to Black's cynicism, but I think it would be best for the Dems to go hard Left, then when the Republicans turn the country into Depression era cesspool, the public will have no alternative, and they (the Dems)will be ready with real solutions ( for you ditto heads that's socialism aka communism) Bro
