Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’

"The battle for the Latino vote sums up President Barack Obama’s precarious position as he enters the 2012 election season. Sixty-seven percent of Latino voters chose him in 2008. But a poll conducted in August by the blog Latino Decisions showed that only 38 percent of Latino voters were certain to vote for Obama in 2012, down from 49 percent in June." (10/28/11)

"Will he go down in history as a Jimmy Carter or a Harry Truman? As a weak and indecisive Democratic president who ushered in a conservative era or as a strong leader who proved his critics wrong and won re-election? The next year will resolve that question about Barack Obama, but the answer may no longer depend on forces that he can control, if it ever did. ..." (09/29/11)

"The volume on the ongoing discussion about whether President Obama should face a primary challenge for the 2012 Democratic nomination is constantly being adjusted. When the president compromises on basic premises of progressivism ... the volume goes up. When the president stands strong, however ... sometimes when he simply seems to 'get' that there is a point where compromise becomes capitulation, the talk dies down." [editor's note: If these "challenges" were about making BHO live up to the "end war, promote civil liberties" promises from his campaign, I'd say YAY! Too bad they're mostly about promoting the oxymoronic idea of "progressive economics" - SAT] (09/24/11)

"The superstar of 2008, who once looked like a shoo-in for re-election, now appears extremely vulnerable. Despite talk that he will raise a record $1 billion war chest, Democrats in Congress have begun to whisper that Mr Obama’s fading chances of winning a second term are coming to depend on the absence -- so far -- of an exciting Republican challenger." [editor's note: A great analysis, that addresses the real issue -- nobody who's running should be elected - SAT] (08/08/11)

"For The Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, it’s Jimmy Carter, the preferred bogeyman of conservatives and right-wingers. ... Yes, Cost is right to place Obama on shaky ground for his re-election campaign. ... Jimmy Carter, on the other hand, was wildly unpopular by the time 1980 rolled around, and faced a credible primary challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy. What’s more, the public blamed Carter for the poor economy of the late seventies, which isn’t true of Obama and today." (06/17/11)