Obama FORWARD 2012 and the Bin Laden raid
Political punditry is a thankless task… analyzing what you believe the public’s perception is…. and not wanting to simply state your own perception as being the public’s. Â (A lot of people don’t even try to do that much.)
My guess is Obama needs to do the “I ordered Bin Laden’s Death!” thing — for one it puts to shame this element of parody in how the Republican / Conservative Movement portrays any Democratic Administration (And Romney floated it with a retort about “Even Carter wouldadunit” Â … EVEN CARTER) —
which is how I always thought the matter would support his re-election politically. Â A silly opposition narrative looks even sillier …
… but we may have such a bifrocated electorate that the sullying forth on Fox News, the sheer hypocrisy of the charges … ignoring the shamelessness during the Bush Administration from the same damned world of pundits and politicos … won’t enter into the equation. Â We’re butting heads, everyone chooses to believe what they choose to believe, that’s all…
… But my guess is it needs to be along the lines of Point Number 3 for Obama 2012, and not Point Number 1 in order for “I Gots Obama” to be an effective pitch. Â At Point 3 you’ll get a nod of “Ah. Â Yes”. Â At point 1 you’ll get “Yeah, whatsever.”
In other Obama 2012 news: his slogan “Forward” is getting blasted. Â And so they march to Wikipedia. Â Apparently Marxists used it in the past to demarcate the direction they claimed to be taking things. Â Yeah, well.
The web publication of Glen Beck weighs in.
Time for Democrats to look around for any Republican at any point in the past who used the tepid and tedious slogan “Forward”. Â Surely everybody remembers Warren Harding’s big “Forward” push. Â (It was the name of a publication by Moderate Republicans in the 1960s / 1970s, I think… but the Moderate lost the party war.)