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TOPIC: "Why Obama Is Losing the Political War" (Halperin, Time.com, 10/11/10)


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"Why Obama Is Losing the Political War" (Halperin, Time.com, 10/11/10)
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Why Obama Is Losing the Political War


Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November's elections.

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle. (See Obama's troubled first year, issue by issue.)

On Friday, after the release of the latest bleak unemployment data — the last major jobs figures before the midterms — Obama said, "Putting the American people back to work, expanding opportunity, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class is the moral and national challenge of our time." But elites feel the President has failed to meet that challenge and are convinced he will be unable to do so in the remainder of his term. Moreover, there is a growing perception that Obama's decisions are causing harm — that businesses are being hurt by the Administration's legislation and that economic recovery is stalling because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, deficits, housing, immigration and spending.

And that sentiment is spreading. Many members of the general public appear deeply skeptical of Obama's capacity to turn things around, especially, but not exclusively, those inclined to dislike him — Tea Partyers and John McCain voters, but also tens of millions of middle-class Americans, including quite a few who turned out for Obama in 2008.

The misery afflicting the country has no political affiliation.

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Just as the yearn for HOPE had no political affiliation... and he rode the wave of HOPE in 2008 without much specifics, the Tea Party-led GOP is creaming the MISERY and ANGER wave, again without specifics.

I hope this country does not lead itself in for another 6 years of hell...

It is absolutely necessary to LOOK FOR SPECIFIC PLANS - not just platform positions and definitely not slogans.  I worry when the website of a candidate has nothing more than link to donate andn some ads slamming the other side, but that's mostly what I am seeing.. and what I am seeing on Tea Party sites I am not liking at all on the social scale -  when I researched the candidates, what I found is that they are even more extreme than I had gather from just news...


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