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Time for BHO to Take Cue from LBJ, and Announce that He will NOT Seek a 2nd Term

From the Daily Kos (imagine that):

I think it’s time for Democrats to start pressuring President Obama not to seek re-election in 2012 and allow for a Democrat that has a chance of winning to run……………………………..

No matter what the explanation for Obama is, it’s become apparent to me that his policies and actions make him unable to win re-election.

Now there are many out there that make the argument that we’d be better off with a Republican President. That argument says that a Republican President wouldn’t have been able to push through most of the things that Obama has gotten through so far. And even though I agree with that a Republican President couldn’t of be so successful in passing Republican policies, I just don’t think it’s better to have a Republican President, I just think that it’s better to have a real Democrat as President.

This is why Democrats need to start calling for Obama to voluntarily not seek re-election. I think it would be troublesome for Democrats to actually primary him next year, unless it was a very very strong progressive in the league of Russ Feingold or Bernie Sanders. Heck, as much as I opposed Hilary Clinton in the primaries in 2008, I now know that we could easily count on her to be more liberal and a better negotiator. But she couldn’t primary Obama.

When a President has gotten to the point that one of his first supporters in congress, John Conyers, is calling for Democrats to march on Obama, (YouTube link, Conyers part starts at about the 2:20 mark in this video,) it’s time to hang it up.

I still like President Obama as a person. It’s nothing personal against him. It’s just that we are going through an extraordinary time of turmoil in our history, and we need a real Democrat in office, not someone who just wants to play good cop bad cop on behalf of Republicans.

for full article, and video links: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/08/1004518/-Time-To-Give-Obama-The-LBJ-Talk

Obama Presidency: The Fall from JFK & FDR Comparisons to Carter/LBJ

From the Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami’s “The Obsolesence of Barack Obama”:

Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation’s rescue. Now it is to Lyndon B. Johnson’s unhappy presidency that Democratic strategist Robert Shrum compares the stewardship of Mr. Obama. Johnson, wrote Mr. Shrum in the Week magazine last month, never “sustained an emotional link with the American people” and chose to escalate a war that “forced his abdication as president.”…………………………………..

Big as Reagan’s mandate was, in two elections, the man was never bigger than his country. There was never narcissism or a bloated sense of personal destiny in him. He gloried in the country, and drew sustenance from its heroic deeds and its capacity for recovery. No political class rode with him to power anxious to lay its hands on the nation’s treasure, eager to supplant the forces of the market with its own economic preferences…………………………………..

There is little evidence that the Obama presidency could yet find new vindication, another lease on life. Mr. Obama will mark time, but henceforth he will not define the national agenda. He will not be the repository of its hopes and sentiments. The ambition that his would be a “transformational” presidency—he rightly described Reagan’s stewardship in these terms—is for naught.

For full article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704164904575421363005578460-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMTExNDEyWj.html

 

Obama’s “Vietnam”: Afghanistan may mire the Obama White House; McChrystal might resign

     Afghanistan is where we need to concentrate. That was the foreign policy strategy that Candidate Obama professed during the lengthy 2008 Presidential campaign. His liberal left base wanted him to get the troops out of Iraq immediately and to close GITMO, the latter being a lot harder to accomplish than the former.

     Now the top brass in Afghanistan has completed its assessment of the Afghanistan theater, and despite already increasing our troops in the region, it is not sufficient. Not having learned our lessons from “Charlie Wilson’s War” in the area, General McChrystal has, in a recently leaked report, made it clear to the President that if more troops are not injected, and soon, the war will be a lost cause. And the General does not want his horse tied to a non-existent cart.

     The New York Times reported:

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan, in a confidential assessment submitted to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, warns in grim and urgent language that he needs additional troops — from 10,000 up to 45,000 more in the next year — or the conflict “will likely result in failure.”

The assessment, made public by The Washington Post, says that success “will not be attained simply by trying harder or doubling down on the previous strategy.” We asked some experts on Afghanistan strategy how should additional troops be deployed? What types of specialized personnel are needed now?

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/fending-off-failure-in-afghanistan/?hp