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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 874345" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/02/memo-to-dems-dump-obama-before-its-too-late/" target="_blank">Memo to Dems: Dump Obama before it’s too late</a>[/h]This summer has cemented it: Barack Obama is a lame duck. His&nbsp; administration is a failure.&nbsp;Democrats know it. And they only have&nbsp; months to act.&nbsp;Their president has lost the support of Wall Street donors.&nbsp;He has&nbsp; driven high-powered Democrats to go public with humiliating criticism. One in four Democrats have told CNN they want a different nominee.What’s the problem? In a hugely influential New York Times editorial,&nbsp; psychologist Drew Westen lamented that Obama’s problem is himself. “Like most Americans,” he wrote, “at this point, I have no idea what&nbsp; Barack Obama — and by extension the party he leads — believes on&nbsp; virtually any issue.”&nbsp;There is still time for Democrats to fix this — but only if they&nbsp; force their leader not to seek a second term. As a president, Barack&nbsp; Obama is doomed.&nbsp;He is doomed now, doomed on Election Day and doomed&nbsp; even if he wins, until the day he leaves the White House.For starters, Obama has no true constituency. No one wants to admit that the president’s white and African heritage — non-African-American,&nbsp; that is — matters. It mattered when he parlayed it as a candidate into a&nbsp; successful-feeling act of racial transcendence and healing. It matters&nbsp; now as we strain to understand his inability to connect at a gut&nbsp; political level with black America.&nbsp;Obama is not really a product of the black experience.&nbsp;He is not&nbsp; really a product of the white experience. An optimist would say he is a&nbsp; product of the American experience, but the emotionally neutral judgment&nbsp; is that — politically, at a minimum — he is a man from nowhere.Here is a president who has dragged his party through a tormented health&nbsp; care reform process, only to land it in the courts.&nbsp;He has paid lip&nbsp; service to unions, and cozied up to corporate interests while taking&nbsp; cheap shots at their most trivial political advantages.&nbsp;He has dribbled&nbsp; out a thin gruel of socialistic remarks about who needs their own money&nbsp; and who doesn’t — while repeatedly and publicly conflating the likes of&nbsp; himself and Warren Buffet with Americans laboring to build both wealth&nbsp; and families.No, the only truly bold and inspirational thing that Barack Obama has&nbsp; ever done is run for president.&nbsp;It is a trick he has already proven&nbsp; himself incapable of repeating.&nbsp;Obamacare has no second act.&nbsp;Americans have no stomach for the full&nbsp; Obama.&nbsp;And his competence to govern is incommensurate both with the&nbsp; reality of our crisis and his own vision of justice.&nbsp;But if Democrats don’t heed the lesson of Reagan vs. Ford, or remember&nbsp; Ted Kennedy’s rallying pledges from the 1980 convention, the fact will&nbsp; swallow them. Hillary now is just like Teddy then.&nbsp;Only, instead of&nbsp; Chappaquiddick, she’s got a steel-plated record of discipline and&nbsp; control — that her own president doesn’t have, and never will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 874345, member: 12952"] [h=1][URL="http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/02/memo-to-dems-dump-obama-before-its-too-late/"]Memo to Dems: Dump Obama before it’s too late[/URL][/h] This summer has cemented it: Barack Obama is a lame duck. His administration is a failure. Democrats know it. And they only have months to act. Their president has lost the support of Wall Street donors. He has driven high-powered Democrats to go public with humiliating criticism. One in four Democrats have told CNN they want a different nominee. What’s the problem? In a hugely influential New York Times editorial, psychologist Drew Westen lamented that Obama’s problem is himself. “Like most Americans,” he wrote, “at this point, I have no idea what Barack Obama — and by extension the party he leads — believes on virtually any issue.” There is still time for Democrats to fix this — but only if they force their leader not to seek a second term. As a president, Barack Obama is doomed. He is doomed now, doomed on Election Day and doomed even if he wins, until the day he leaves the White House. For starters, Obama has no true constituency. No one wants to admit that the president’s white and African heritage — [I]non[/I]-African-American, that is — matters. It mattered when he parlayed it as a candidate into a successful-feeling act of racial transcendence and healing. It matters now as we strain to understand his inability to connect at a gut political level with black America. Obama is not really a product of the black experience. He is not really a product of the white experience. An optimist would say he is a product of the American experience, but the emotionally neutral judgment is that — politically, at a minimum — he is a man from nowhere. Here is a president who has dragged his party through a tormented health care reform process, only to land it in the courts. He has paid lip service to unions, and cozied up to corporate interests while taking cheap shots at their most trivial political advantages. He has dribbled out a thin gruel of socialistic remarks about who needs their own money and who doesn’t — while repeatedly and publicly conflating the likes of himself and Warren Buffet with Americans laboring to build both wealth and families. No, the only truly bold and inspirational thing that Barack Obama has ever done is run for president. It is a trick he has already proven himself incapable of repeating. Obamacare has no second act. Americans have no stomach for the full Obama. And his competence to govern is incommensurate both with the reality of our crisis and his own vision of justice. But if Democrats don’t heed the lesson of Reagan vs. Ford, or remember Ted Kennedy’s rallying pledges from the 1980 convention, the fact will swallow them. Hillary now is just like Teddy then. Only, instead of Chappaquiddick, she’s got a steel-plated record of discipline and control — that her own president doesn’t have, and never will. [/QUOTE]

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