Posted on 05/12/2012 8:40:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The huge loss of former French President, Nickolas Sarkozy, has distinctly dealt death blow to Sarkozy’s political clout especially in France. The world most powerful man and United States President, Barack Obama, is beginning to be seen in the same light. Will Obama join his political ally, Sarkozy in this excruciating political debacle after November US poll? KINGSLEY OPURUM writes.
Gallup launched a sequence of surveys that underscored the dimensions with the problem confronted by Barack Obama as he seeks re-election in November 2012, which includes a poll displaying a rejection of his big-government agenda.
As a famous, charismatic and favourite man, Obama has not to all intents and purposes lived up to the expectation of the Americans
It is noteworthy that Obama’s second term ambition is fraught with several problems. These problems can be spotlighted as follow;
Firstly, the real problem President Obama has is that there is a large chunk of the American public that loathes him. It is irrational, and these voters have a hard time putting their rationale into words without spewing venom. Some of it is downright bigotry towards our first black President.
Some of it is that he’s seen as a different person, i.e., Muslim, not one of us, elitist, pick your poison. Some of it is that his rock star quality grates on their souls like nails on a blackboard. And some because he’s just a loathsome Democrat, and you know what that means.
Secondly, white guys are voting Republican. This block of voters comprises the group that generally detests Obama, making them spit nails when they even have to say his name. Another huge albatross that is likely to bught his chance is the same-sex marriage he endorsed on Wednesday.
Others have reasoned arguments against him such as the deficit, the economy, jobs, governmental overreach, and a government too big for its britches. Many of these men are blue-collar workers. Pew Research poll found Obama trailing Romney with white men by 26 points, 60 to 34 per cent. Not a good sign.
Thirdly, the sluggish economy is not growing fast enough to take a big shock. All it would take for us to fall back into a recession is for another European country to tumble into financial turmoil, one more tsunami to slam into the coast of Japan, or hostilities to erupt in the Middle East.
One blip on the global radar and America’s economy would slump precipitously, taking President Obama’s chances with it. Events such as these are out of his control, but he is the captain on the ship of the State and if the ship founders, so do his fortunes. Just look at what the rising gas prices have done to his approval ratings. They were headed for the desired 50% mark, when the gas prices nosed upwards and his numbers nosed downwards.
Fourthly, like it or not, Republicans know President Obama inherited the Near Depression from President Bush, caused by the Republican love of tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, love of war, hence the Iraq debacle, and love of deregulation, thus our financial collapse. Instead, they blithely ignore those eight years of misrule and focus on why President Obama has not fixed things more quickly, even as they tied his hands with Congressional gamesmanship and filibusters.
For too long, the President played along, going along to get along, and all it got him was a mountain of misery. Having been a community organizer when he was young, bringing together disparate groups like gangs, he probably thought he could work the same magic again. What Obama did not realize was that Congressional Republicans make the Crips and Bloods look like the Cub Scouts. So, yes, things could be worse, thanks to Republican obstructionism. But that doesn’t cut it with voters.
Fifthly, many Democrats are not happy campers. The further Left Democrats are on the political spectrum, the greater their unhappiness. Candidate Obama promised so much and delivered so little as far as they are concerned, from not closing Guantanamo to not making it easier for workers to unionize to not allowing imported drugs. Cranky voters do not make for grassroots troops, and it was the energized Left that turned out the vote. If the Left only votes this time around, but does little else, Obama has a problem.
Then, there are those Democrats who are displeased with the Stimulus Package because it didn’t go far enough and didn’t come down on the financial institutions like a ton of bricks. An even greater segment of the population is either displeased with Obamacare because the President didn’t fight for Single Payer, much less the Public Option, or are people who have seen their insurance rates soar since Health Care Reform was passed. Not a happy group of voters.
Sixthly, Republicans have gone into overdrive to root out “voter fraud.” Or so they say. Actually, their real agenda is to make voting difficult, particularly for Democrats’ traditional constituencies: seniors, the poor, African Americans, Hispanics, and the young.
The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University School of Law estimates that “voting restrictions could affect up to five million traditionally Democratic voters.” Another look at the numbers found that 189 electoral votes — 70 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election — will come from those states with the new restrictive voting laws.
Already 12 states have passed restrictive laws with another 16 considering bills to curb voter registration or requiring photo ID.
The new state laws ramrodded through the Republican state legislatures are supposedly designed to combat rampant voter fraud. In actuality, the amount of voter fraud in this country is a myth akin to the Loch Ness Monster: sightings are claimed but voter fraud is nearly extinct. Under the Bush Administration, the Department of Justice launched a crackdown on voter fraud in 2002, but five years later it only had 86 convictions to show for the effort. That’s .00007 per cent of the 122 million people who voted in the 2004 elections.
Finally, slash and burn politics is now standard practice in elections. PACs and now the Super PACs will turn the 2012 election into the year of The Scorched Earth. Romney’s barrage of negative TV ads in Florida made Newt Gingrich toast. The same happened to Rick Santorum when he rose to be the challenger. Since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of unlimited cash with the Citizens United case, jumbo stashes of cash have funded some of the nastiest of ads.
At the same time, the candidate can hold up his hands, unsullied by the taint of smears, lies, half-truths, and innuendoes. This is the new politics and it is no holds barred. If you thought Mixed Martial Arts was brutal, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Wait till Romney lets loose the hounds of hell on Obama. Just one of these seven could doom President Obama to be a one-term president. If there is a perfect storm and they all converge, it could be a Mitt Romney landslide.
Meanwhile, recent polls show Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney closing the gap with rival President Obama. The November presidential election could be decided by a handful of states, some of which – Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico for instance – could swing with the Hispanic vote, considered a slam-dunk for the incumbent.
Hispanics gave Obama two-thirds of their vote in 2008 and in a recent NBC/WSJ polls favoured the president over Romney by a whopping 47 points. However, if team Romney smartens up, the GOP hopeful could siphon off enough of the Latino vote to give him the win.
Like everything else these days, it all depends on jobs.Americans rate jobs their number one priority, and Latinos are no exception. For Hispanics, education comes next. Immigration – the issue of contention between Romney and Latinos -- ranks only sixth, after education, health care, taxes and the federal budget deficit.
Firstly, the real problem President Obama has is that there is a large chunk of the American public that loathes him. It is irrational, and these voters have a hard time putting their rationale into words without spewing venom. Some of it is downright bigotry towards our first black President.
That’s far enough for me. What horse -—t.
What an unmitigated load of tripe!
Regards,
GtG
Rehearsing excuses for when Bozo loses...
Rehearsing excuses for when Bozo loses...
Yep.
One can only hope...(he joins Sarkozy as an EX)
We have a black president???
I never imagined that I would loathe anyone like I do this evil piece of human waste.
We can only hope and pray that this will be the outcome of the election.
Nigeria? I think I get e-mails from these guys. I just have to give them my bank account information and they’ll send me $100,000 or something.
Why is a guy in Nigeria saying Obama is “our President”
curiouser and curiouser
It reads like it was written by a twelve year old.
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