The economy, not his foreign policy, is what is going to kill his career and his place in history. He completely screwed up with his priorities.
This might be the dumbest thing I have read in months:
Perhaps the key difference is that Obama enjoys a tight and intimate bond with the Democratic base -- the kind of personal relationship that always eluded LBJ. This was reflected in the path that both men took to the presidency. Obama, of course, was a neophyte senator in 2008, just a few years removed from the Illinois state Legislature. If it had been left to his party's power brokers, he'd never have come close to the White House. But his inspiring life story, optimistic message and magnetic personality helped build a grass-roots army that imposed its will on the Democratic establishment.
That is so much bullshit I am speechless. The only "base" still in his corner--maybe--on the other hand I can't THINK of anybody in the "base" who is in his corner. He has managed to piss off everybody in his attempt to kiss the right's ass. He's got fewer friends than LBJ did at the height of the Vietnam debacle, and I remember LBJ. At the rate his alienating everybody is going, by the time he is up for re-election, Obama may have the support of only Michelle and maybe Oprah Winfrey and nobody else.
For the record, but there was never any real "grassroots" army behind Obama's candidacy--he was a Madison Avenue con job peddled by the media and bankrolled by Wall Street and his Chicago cronies. He was the national version of Nevada's Kenny Guinn; the establishment wanted him despite his lack of experience. It was going to be him and nobody else. Unlike the late governor, who turned out to be one of the Silver State's greatest governors, Obama has become the Democrats' version of George W. Bush.
I might even be nostalgic for the Squatter-in-Chief by the time this is over.
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