Electronic Urban Report Web ^ | April 4, 2011 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 11:42:28 AM by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama's re-election bid announcement was pro forma. There was never any doubt whether he'd run again, and if the GOP has anything to do with it, the odds are looking better every day that he'll win in a walk away. It didn't start out that way, though.
The first year of his White House tenure, things looked shaky for re-election. There was double digit unemployment, home foreclosures soared, the GOP scored wins in key governor and senate races, the war without end in Afghanistan raged at a staggering cost.
There were hordes of livid, screaming Tea Party activists tromping around the Capital. There were defections of key administration staffers rising. And the carping, hectoring, and even fury from liberal Democrats and progressives of Obama at what they considered and his timid, cautious, conciliatory, even back slide on issues and polices rose to a higher pitch with each passing day.
The president's precipitous slide in the polls and popularity came crashing to a head with "shellacking" the Democrats took in the November mid-terms.
But in the months since then the GOP came to the rescue. In rapid succession it has ticked off millions with its bellicose threat to meat ax spending on every vital government program around and if it didn't get the cuts it wanted shut down government.
Its parade of would be presidential candidates sounded more bizarre, contradictory, and downright goofy on everything from spouting the phony Birther line about Obama's birth certificate to flailing away with inconsistent, and confused statements about Libya.
Polls have consistently shown that even while Obama's popularity has edged down mostly over the handling of the economy, more Americans than not said they were disenchanted, even fed up with the Tea Party's antics, bluster and intransigence. Even if House Republicans pull back from making the colossally stupid mistake of padlocking government for a few days to get the budget slashes they want and the likelihood is they will, they have gone even further to imprint in the public mind that the GOP is the party of pig-headed, nay-saying, whining, intransigence...............................
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