Some think the Obama will have no problems being re-elected in 2012, but I think everyone now knows that Obama is not as squeaky clean as they thought during the campaign. Plus, Jesus Himself might not be able to pull us out of this unemployment deal and hopefully Obama will be blamed for it. I say hopefully because liberals and the liberal media have a way of looking over his (and every other liberal's) shortcomings. Hey, if the guy did not have such warped ideas about Socialism, Communism, and America in general, not to mention his inexperience and what that is likely to cause, I might vote for him next time. And that is about the only reason he might be re-elected. Occasionally we re-elect losers (like Clinton) simply because they are the evil we know, which is better than the evil we do not know. We just have to keep an eye on Obama and make sure he does not sell out America, however we do that.
And some think Obama is not trying to control the media, not trying to shut his critics down. If you believe that, you might want to read this ...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28532.html
To quote that article ...
With a series of private meetings and public taunts, the White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the country’s most-listened-to conservative commentator; and now, with a new volley of combative rhetoric in recent days, the insurance industry, Wall Street executives and Fox News.
Yet, Obama cannot decide what to do in the Middle East. I suppose it would be easier to shut down your critics. That would solve all kinds of problems. I suppose the president has cause to be worried since his numbers dropped about nine points between his second and third quarters in office, according to Gallup. That is about the worst drop for any president at that point in his presidency.
Is there any wonder hardcore conservatives are livid when it comes to this administration? Who in their right mind wants to be told to sit down and shut up? However ...
Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.
By media personalities, they mean people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. For more on that, see ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091022/pl_politico/28589
I often debate with people around here that America is more conservative than liberal. That does not mean that America is more Republican than Democrat. You have to remember that there are liberal Republicans and there are conservative Democrats, but that is not the norm. A Gallup poll done in August says conservatives outnumber liberals ...
http://www.theitem.com/article/20090819/OPED02/708199935/-1/RSS09
That article says ...
But we already knew that. What makes this poll so surprising is that self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to Gallup. The poll’s results were derived from interviewing 160,235 American adults between Jan. 2 of this year and June 30. They were asked whether their political views are very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal. In the survey, 40 percent of respondents said they are either “conservative” or “very conservative.” That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004, say the Gallup pollsters. Only 21 percent told Gallup they are “liberal” or “very liberal.” Moderates make up 35 percent of the rest of those polled.
I guess I have to revise my statement. America is not more conservative than liberal, but conseratives do outnumber liberals. Plus, I think a lot of those moderates (somewhere between liberal and conservative) and Independents (neither Democrat nor Republican) are the ones that decide elections. Socialists probably side with Democrat candidates and Libertarians probably side with Republican candidates, but even that is probably not a sure thing.
If you notice, that poll was taken in the first half of 2009. I would almost bet that those numbers are different today, and will be much different by this time next year, and even more different by this time in 2012. It is like Abraham Lincoln said ...
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
So Obama can keep trying to silence his critics, but it will do him no good because he is trying to fool The People instead of doing his job. Of course, he cannot do the job he wants to do because a majority of Americans do not agree with what he wants to do. He can stage press conferences with fake doctors, but real doctors will just show up and prove how far off base he is (real doctors do not want big government to take over the healthcare system). As I heard a real doctor say this morning, if you do not pay full price for a service, the service will disappear. In other words, rationing and waiting forever for a doctor to see you. You know, like in Canada and anywhere they have Socialized medicine.
The strange thing is, a majority (well, just over 50 percent) of Americans voted for him. The question is why? The answer is ... because he is not George Bush, because the liberal media supported him, and because he is a blackish man. He put together a coalition of the disgruntled, the dishonest, and the disillusioned. What an accomplishment. No wonder he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
