Shavua tov, a new week

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/barack-obama-politics_n_1847947.html
 

 How did a candidate who drew two million individuals to his inauguration and retained a 13 million-member email list lose that magic?

"... Obama found himself with far less power than expected."

 

You have to read it to believe it. Here's the "money quote" ... from Van Jones:

“The one thing that I learned when I was at the White House was that we thought we had everything we needed to govern: Obama, Pelosi — best Speaker ever — 60 votes in the Senate [Specter would switch parties after the stimulus passed],” said Van Jones, who, since leaving the White House, has become active in outside progressive organizations.

“Turns out we had a third of what we needed. You need media on your side — for-real media, like [Republicans] have with Fox. And you need a movement in the streets like they have with the Tea Party. It turns out if you don’t have the media or the movement, you’ll get beat to butter on the government level.”

Jones told Huffington he was stunned to see conservatives out-organize the White House. “How was it that for two years the right wing in America had a monopoly on both the ground war, street protests, and the idea war? That’s almost unprecedented,” he said....

 

It's a very long (and boring) piece, so let's just cut to the conclusion:

For Obama, whose brand remains very much tied to the idea that partisanship can be overcome, it remains unclear whether he’s comfortable with that type of politics.

Explaining this spring how he would manage to enact his agenda in a second term, Obama was still looking forward to sitting down and cutting deals. This time, he said, Republicans would be nicer because he’s not running for re-election.

“I believe that if we’re successful in this election, when we’re successful in this election, that the fever may break, because there’s a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that,” he said.

“My hope, my expectation, is that after the election, now that it turns out that the goal of beating Obama doesn’t make much sense because I’m not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again.”

 

 

Judging by the comments section, Obama's supporters are profoundly unaware of the national debt.  One wonders how that can be.

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A shameful display of presidential fecklessness and stupidity. Did Obama REALLY expect Bibi to remain passive, silent, and servile while Iran -- with the tacit compliance of the U.S. -- draws closer and closer to the weapon of its dreams? Did he REALLY believe Bibi would -- as a favor to His Eminence -- say and do nothing about Iran until after the election? Is Obama REALLY so narcissistic as to believe that the entire world would slow to a halt just to accommodate his re-election schedule? Now -- with the Iranian stew coming to a boil before the election (a completely foreseeable event) -- what does he do? He panics -- and sends Petraeus on a fool's errand to Israel. This is what the Dims call "presidential leadership." This kind of out-of-touch-with-reality, chicken-with-its-head-cut-off behavior should be enough to scare hordes of voters into voting for Romney.