Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:38:46 PM
Obama - who has never really worked a day in his life - is running for re-election, to a job he is unqualified for and isn't really interested in. Oh, he's interested in the perks and the benefits, but not the day-to-day actual job. He likes the attention. He likes the adulation. But, he doesn't like the job, which is why he spends most of his time avoiding it, except when he can't.
Jim Messina, former deputy chief of staff and now campaign manager, released a video outlining what he hopes will be a winning strategy. Here are the five steps:
Expand the electorate (Legalize all illegal immigrants and get them registered.)
Build something new (I have no accomplishments on which to run.)
Grow the grassroots in the states (I've lost voters right and left.)
Measure our progress (Make sure the MSM is on board to cover my butt.)
Work for every vote (Be all things to all people, even if that means saying one thing on Monday and another on Tuesday.)
Messina went on to say, "We ought not act like an incumbent, we've got to act like an insurgent campaign that wakes up every single day, trying to get every single vote we can."
Such a "strategy" would not be necessary if Obama was doing a good job. The ultimate insider cannot be an outsider. The MSM can selectively report things and it can attack the Republican with a vengeance, but the American people still have to put gas in the tank and buy groceries. They have to deal with the rising cost of everything, and no amount of blather from Obama and his minions in the MSM can change that reality. Obama cannot run away from his time in office, no matter how hard he tries.
Rightly or wrongly, the President gets the credit when things are good and the blame when things are bad. At some point in time, pointing the finger at everyone but himself will get Obama nowhere. People don't care who's to blame. All they want to know is who's going to fix things . . . and how soon.
As the price of gas creeps up and up, how many people will be able to attend Obama's events? The man who Evan Thomas of Newsweek claimed was "sort of God" in 2008, might very well find himself to be the incredible shrinking man in 2012, with the venues to match.