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ElECTION 2012: Is Barry On His Way Out?

ELECTION 2012

Democrats catching Obama-abandonment syndrome

Party's unanimity over 2012 candidate disintegrating

Posted: September 20, 2011
8:22 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

Barack Obama at a presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York.

President Obama is jamming his 2012 re-election bid into high gear, putting his familiar rhetoric to work, but look at what some of his critics have told the American public in recent days:

"He is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013."
A challenge to Obama from inside his own party "would be healthy."
"If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House [during recent developments] and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House."

But these comments come from Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, whose publication previous...;U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio;andRep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., chief of the Congressional Black Caucus– all individuals and groups who largely have been behind Obama.

Just what is going on?

The London Daily Mail reported that "progressives" within the Democratic Party feel Obama has not done enough during his first term as president, and they are worried that their "liberal voice" is being silenced.

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So their plan is to field a team of challengers to Obama during the primary elections for the 2012 presidential nomination.

The report said more than 45 Democrats are supporting the move, although the individual names have not yet been announced.

Cleaver, the report said, warned his Congressional Black Caucus organization also is not happy.

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California stated flatly, "We're supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y'all. We want to give [Obama] every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is."

On the newspaper's comment page, a reader said it's about time that Obama has some opposition.

"I applaud anyone who derails this loser's chances for re-election, American just can't afford much more of this garbage," wrote one contributor.

"Please, let this be true. The world (and the USA) cannot afford to have this buffoon in the White House one more day past his current term. Let's hope history repeats itself and we have Jimmy Carter, Part Deux," added another.

New York Times columnist David Brooks called himself a "sap" for trusting Obama.

"To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used," he wrote. "When the president said the unemployed couldn't wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that it would be irresponsible not to come up with a package that could pass right away, I believed them. I liked Obama's payroll tax cut ideas and urged Republicans to play along. But of course I'm a sap. When the president unveiled the second half of his stimulus it became clear that this package has nothing to do with helping people right away or averting a double dip. This is a campaign marker, not a jobs bill."

Nader, the legendary consumeradvocate, also has suggested recruiting a slate of liberals to mount a primary challenge to Obama in 2012.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, he said he's not out to make sure Obama is denied a second term.

"Just the opposite," Nader told the Times. "If [Obama's] smart, he'll welcome it, because nothing's worse than an incumbent president slipping in the polls, being constantly on the defensive, being accused by supporters of having no backbone and running an unenthusiastically received campaign. That's a prescription for defeat."

Nader said, "He's got a lack of enthusiasm with his base. If he goes through a one-year presidential campaign with mind-numbing repetition, responding to crazed Republican positions, he is not going to activate his base. He will be put on the defensive, just the way he is now."

The report explained Nader and his allies have contacted more than 150 potential sympathizers with their accusation that Obama is turning his back on the progressive agenda.

The call by the Tribune's Chapmans for Obama to withdraw has attracted considerable attention.

"His approval rating is at its lowest level ever. His party just lost two House elections – one in a district it had held for 88 consecutive years," Chapman wrote. "He's staked his future on the jobs bill, which most Americans don't think would work. The vultures are starting to circle. Former White House spokesman Bill Burton said that unless Obama can rally the Democratic base, which is disillusioned with him, 'it's going to be impossible for the president to win.' Democratic consultant James Carville had one word of advice for Obama: 'Panic.'

"But there is good news for the president. I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election."

He continued, "In the event he wins, Obama could find himself with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. Then he will long for the good old days of 2011. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner will bound out of bed each day eager to make his life miserable."

His recommendation was that Hillary Clinton be the Democrat nominee.

The Miami Herald reported Cleaver made his comments amid a nearly 17-percent joblessness rate among blacks.

"If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," Cleaver said. "There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."

The report said one caucus member, Democratic Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, said that teaparty members of Congress "would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree." And Waters said the tea party "can go straight to hell."

At Politico, a report noted that centrist Democrats – a "dwindling breed" – now are being forced to reject their president or back what could be the biggest tax hike in the nation.

At the Hill,a report said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., suggested a primary opponent would "push the president."

On a forum page there, however, the feelings were running strong.

"Demrats can 'rearrange the deck chairs' all they want…but they are going DOWN in 2012!" wrote one contributer. Added another, "Yes indeed since Obama is doing such a bang up job with the economy and jobs, we will all be living off the government if he's in another 4 years… Trouble is we are broke and the tax revenues are vanishing along with taxpayers… Ignorant liberals will go down in history books as the people who took down a country."

Yet another said, "Hey pal, you can pick up any phone-book in America…flip it open to any page…close your eyes and randomly point to any name…WHOEVER you pick (as long as he/she is constitutionall y eligible) would make a far better president than Obama by a long shot!"

The National Post reported that Obama's campaign chief David Axelrod has been trying to reassure everyone that the president is doing just fine.

"The (Democratic) base is mobilized behind the president," he said.

WND previously has reported that Ed Koch, a one-time Democratic U.S. congressman and former mayor of New York City, told a radio host his vote in the 2012 presidential election is directly tied to how Barack Obama treats Israel.

Koch surprised the political world when he joined many other Jewish voters in turning against the Democrats in the special election to replace former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner. Koch endorsed the Republican candidate, eventual victor Bob Turner.

"I hope that the president takes note of what happened," Koch told WND Jerusalem Bureau Chief Aaron Klein on his WABC Radio program. "And if he believes that the Jewish vote is not only important, but if he believes that they are correct in assailing his heretofore positions, then he will change those positions and do what I think he should do, which is to send this message to both Turkey and to Egypt, that if you attack Israel, it will be an attack upon the United States."

Obama's re-election prospects have become the target of comics, with one suggesting, "Bad poll numbers are fueling speculation that President Obama is t...

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Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on September 21, 2011 at 9:20pm: We here at REAL CONSERVATIVES have been busy attempting to keep up with chronicling ALL of Obama's "negatives" which include outright lies and everything possible except real truths. Even if you made room for "political adjectives" and sloppy jargon, Obama would STILL be double speaking a language nobody can trust. It turns out he's had many on his side fooled too.

Obama should turn those teleprompters around and read the other side to his minions. Maybe it would make more sense.