Posted on 08/10/2011 7:37:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone
President Barack Obama is facing mounting doubts within his own party about his re-election prospects, with fellow Democrats beginning to ask if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president.
Mr Obama's capitulation to Republicans in the recent tussle over deficit reduction is being seen as the lowest point of his presidency and the latest in a series of blows to the liberal agenda.
Faced with the staunch opposition of the Tea Party contingent of the Republican Party, he agreed to widespread cuts in government spending without winning any revenue increases in exchange.
Finding it hard to defend his often listless and repetitive performances, Democratic strategists and commentators are privately agreeing with Republicans and comparing Mr Obama to Jimmy Carter, another Democrat who remains the post-war benchmark for a failed president.
"He is a do-gooder at heart," said Morris Reid, a Washington consultant and former Clinton official. "He thinks everyone has the same agenda to do the right thing, but other people don't have the same agenda. Their agenda is to score points and get their party re-elected.
"This is the downside of him not being terribly political like Bill Clinton was. Bill Clinton woke up every day relishing this kind of fight, and Hillary is just a tougher person. The Clintons are much more combative, they are always ready to go to Defcon 1 ('war is imminent' state)."
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Which begs the question, are the Democrats racist for abandoning their P_resident?
No, zero is perfect. We’re out of our lull.
The description of the Clinton’s seems pretty accurate.
>Bill Clinton woke up every day relishing this kind of fight,<
Plus Bill woke up every morning relishing on which young intern he will “target” for the day..
If this is truly how the dims feel, they need to get with the bleeder and tell him not to run. Don’t even think of it. Put someone else up to face our nominee. And have that person lose to our nominee. O’s had his shot and blew it.
A Hillary primary challenge would be the best thing that the GOP could ask for.
Obama would still likely eek out the nomination in the end, but, will have spent a huge chunk of his war chest and come out torn and tattered, and weaker in the general.
No sitting President who faced a serious primary challenge from his own party has been re-elected that I can think of (someone correct me if I’m wrong).
PFFT.... No he is not a do-gooder. He is an inept Marxist and thankfully he is a lazy inept Marxist.
I overheard a client today (well known lib) telling someone that he’s already accepted that Rick Perry will be the next President.
Pretty strong prediction for a guy who hasn’t declared, but it shows who the libs fear the most.
When the dum basses who elected this dum bass, realized what a dum bass he was, they are still saddled with him for 3 1/2 more years till he can be removed from office.
Obama is just terrible. i think he is just wishy washy and wants kumbya all day long. Hillary would be fighting like heck to get what she wanted. She would have been much more effective than Obama. Thankfully (weird to say) Obama and not Hillary won or we probably would not get 2012.
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"He is a do-gooder at heart," said Morris Reid, a Washington consultant and former Clinton official. "He thinks everyone has the same agenda to do the right thing, but other people don't have the same agenda. Their agenda is to score points and get their party re-elected.The left lives in a dream-world of their own creation.
In that dream-world, Barak Obama is a do-gooder, a righteous man who is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Oh sure she would. /sarc
Same throne; just a different a$$ sitting on it.
Alfred E Neuman would have been better than this incompetent SOB.....
No incumbent President has been re-elected with unemployment over 7% since FDR ...
FDR got a pass since he came into office with 25% unemployment and he was bringing it down by about 4% a year ...
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