Obama.....running Again!

I can't believe this IDIOT is trying to rerun for a second term...He's accomplished NOTHING constructive during his first term...All he has done is disrupted progress, recovery and put the nation in a real jam....YET he has the ego to say he is running again.....The timing probably couldn't be worse...he has multiple crisis up in mid air with NO Probable Solutions...he is totally disconnected with the core of the problems and he seems more interested in either playing golf or going on spring break with his kids....

It's time America shows him that he doesn't have a chance to get reelected!!!

Tough Timing for Obama 2012 Launch

By Chris Stirewalt Published April 04, 2011


Obama 2012 Launch Complicates 2011 Problems

“I find it kind of ironic that the week we're trying to engage the president, the Democrats and the country with an honest debate about our budget, with real solutions to fix this country's problems and prevent a debt crisis, the president is launching his re-election campaign.”

-- Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., on “FOX News Sunday”

The Obama White House has been struggling to take control of the national discussion in recent weeks, U.S. intervention in the Libyan civil war, rising gas prices, fiscal gridlock on Capitol Hill, economic uncertainty and even the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan distracting from President Obama’s long-promised “hard pivot” to jobs.

The decision to launch President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign today will further complicate the efforts of a president down in the polls and facing serious challenges at home and abroad.

One of the reasons that past presidents have run their re-election efforts out of the Washington area was to facilitate communication between the administration and the political shop. Obama’s team is taking great pride on getting out of Washington and setting up in Chicago. The narrative favored by the president’s men is that the move will imbue a “beyond the beltway” spirit in the campaign and make sure that Obama is above grubby political considerations and focused on the nation’s business, not his campaign.

But today’s announcement – done with a blast email from Obama and an online video of supporters talking about their gathering excitement – shows how campaigns can make things much harder for administrations.

The primary political problem for Obama these days is that too many voters perceive him as a weak leader. His decision to stay out of the fight on spending and entitlements as well as the confusing U.S. mandate in the Libyan war have reinforced a notion that Obama’s above-the-fray approach may be self-interested.

Congressional Democrats routinely complain in private, and increasingly in public, that the president isn’t leading their team but instead playing his own game. By not taking clear positions on spending or whether to depose Muammar al-Qaddafi, Obama preserves his options, but makes it harder on those trying to follow him.

By rolling out his campaign today – expected to be a $1 billion juggernaut lavishly funded by Obama’s corporate patrons in Wall Street, technology and green energy firms – Obama reinforces the notion that his primary considerations are for his own re-election. With Libya a bewildering scene, the Middle East in turmoil and the government nearing shutdown, it seems a strange time to say “Yes, we can.”

Not that there’s ever a good time for a sitting president to make this nod to political reality, but some times are better than others. When George W. Bush made his move in May 2003, the Iraq war was thought to be winding down and Congress was on the verge of a major tax cut. Remember that the “Mission Accomplished” banner only looked really bad in hindsight. In May 2003, Bush was, literally, flying high.

For Obama to act when there is only one top-tier Republican candidate having declared his candidacy (former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty) seems like an unforced error. Obama could have waited until some of the huge questions currently looming over his presidency had been resolved a bit.

To try to minimize the perception of political grubbing, the Obama team is framing the launch as a grassroots effort in which the individuals politically transformed by the 2008 campaign will summon the 2012 campaign into being through their enthusiasm.

In the kickoff video we meet a middle-aged white man from North Carolina, a Hispanic mom from Nevada, an alternative-looking white woman from Colorado, a preppy college student and a black woman from Michigan who all talk about their anticipation for a return to 2008 excitement. But they also discuss the need for the Obama enthusiasts to generate more of their own tingles this time because the president “has a job to do” and can’t spend as much time inspiring them.

In the 1966 TV special “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown,” Linus Van Pelt tells the rest of the gang that the reason they have never seen the Great Pumpkin – a Halloween version of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny – is that they lack faith. If they want the Great Pumpkin to appear, they must truly believe.

This Great Pumpkin approach to the 2012 Obama kickoff may help generate excitement or at least explain to 2008 enthusiasts why the energy is so different this time around, but it will not likely discourage Republicans and Democrats alike who claim that Obama was not serious when he said that he would rather be “a really good one-term president” than get re-elected as an “mediocre president.”

At a time when Obama needs Democrats and Republicans to take political risks to solve serious problems, an early and aggressive re-election bid will do little to encourage teamwork with the White House.