Professor Obama got his ass kicked and seems okay with it

President Obama held a press conference yesterday. He was his usual reasonable and conciliatory self. This on the day after he and his Party got an historic ass kicking by the Tea Party and Republicans.

He sounded like a Harvard law professor.

This Professor Obama stuff really needs to stop if he wants to avoid having a failed presidency. The American people, most anyway, don't like reasonable people. The reason they don't like reasonable people is that in order to deal with a reasonable person you must be reasonable in return and also you are required to think.

Americans, for the most part, are not reasonable. And more importantly most Americans do not like to think. Americans like to be told what to think. Why do you think Fox (cough) News, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are so popular. It's because they tell their followers what to think. They never leave it up to their followers to figure stuff out on their own.

Do you remember all of those Tea Party town hall meetings where Tea Party followers believed that the President's Health-Care Reform was going to include death panels? There were no death panels but those people believed that there were death panels because that's what the Republicans told them to believe.


Did you know that 58% of people who voted yesterday want the Health-Care Reform Bill to be repealed? It's true. Can you imagine people wanting the same old health-care system that we've had in this country? Sounds crazy but the Republicans told them what to think.

So now the President needs to tell Americans what to think. He needs to tell them the truth about Health-Care reform. He needs to tell them to support Health-Care reform. And that if they are against it they are against their own best interests.

He needs to tell them that Bush and the Republicans are responsible for the economic meltdown. If he continues to act like he was at the helm for the last 10 years then he's done.

He also needs to tell Americans that now that the Republicans run the House that absolutely nothing is going to get done in the next two years. And he needs to tell Americans that it will not be the fault of Democrats.

The President has two years to change his image. If he doesn't then yesterday's election results will be repeated in 2012. Obama has to stand up and fight. He has to let his opponents know that he is the President and he will lead this country.

A power vacuum exists in Washington and that's why the Tea Party/ Republicans were able to take control of the House. And that vacuum exists because the President is afraid to anger anyone. Yet all he's done is anger everyone. No one respects a wimp, no one. Not even other wimps. If the President wants to be successful then he needs to stand-up.

Barack are you listening?

"Despite Fenty's defiance, his advisers were concerned about the anger toward the mayor that simmered in black neighborhoods." Washington Post


Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty lost the Mayoral Democratic primary recently. His loss can be attributed to a lot of things but one that caught my eye was Fenty's disconnect from his African American constituents. Many African Americans, who supported the soon to be former mayor in the past, voted against him.

According to many Fenty seemed tone-deaf when it came to hearing the concerns of African American constituents. This seems, in my opinion, to mirror President Barack Obama's own tone-deafness to the voices of African Americans.

Could Fenty's loss be an omen of things to come in 2012 for Obama?

Barack and Hillary's shotgun wedding in 2012?

Unless the economy turns around in a big way I think Barack Obama is going to have a very tough time being re-elected in 2012.

Even with all of the capitulating the President has done to try to win favor with White Americans in the middle of the country he's still not too popular with them. And all that capitulating has angered the most liberal groups in the Democratic party. And on top of that Obama has turned off at least a few percentage points of African American voters with his fear of racial issues or mishandling of them.

So how will Obama right his political ship in 2012?

Well there are more than a few people who are calling on him to or predicting that he will drop Vice-President what's-his-name and replace him with Hillary "I was shot at by snipers" Clinton as his running mate.

And those people do have a point that Clinton more than likely will bring with her lots of votes that Obama may have trouble getting without her. White women come to mind. And remember that Hillary won Texas and Ohio in the Democratic Primary. Both Texas and Ohio are going to be a battlefield in the general election in 2012 so having some help there wouldn't hurt Obama.

But would Hillary Clinton as a VP running mate hurt Obama as well? We all know that the Republicans love to hate Hilary. So they would have a field day. But, if their attention is on Hillary that might give Obama a break from all of the attacks. Plus since we all know that Obama will not defend himself on anything remotely racial it might help to have an attack dog like Hillary in the fold.

On the other hand more than a few African American voters were turned off by the Clintons during the last primary season. There was a lot of racial baiting coming from the Clintons. And I don't know if enough time has passed for those wounds to have healed.

I don't think anyone believes that Vice-President Biden has a chance in heck of winning the Presidency in 2016. So he'll be a liability to the Party if he remains on the ticket. Clinton would actually have a chance at winning the Presidency in 2016 so that is another plus in her column.

Oh and one more thing; Bill Clinton. He's kind of a wild card in this. He is a great fund-raiser and campaigner. But he can get out-of-pocket pretty quick. So he might be a problem in a long campaign season, as the 2012 campaign is likely to be.

And there may be another wild card in the 2012 Presidential election, that's New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His candidacy might really hurt Obama. I know that I would consider voting for Bloomberg. I don't think he'd be afraid to address issues important to African Americans.

But Obama with Clinton might help him overcome a Bloomberg threat.

So, Obama/ Clinton in 2012? What do you think?