What will President Obama be running on in 2012?

[WI_DEM]

Given the fragile economy and high unemployment what will be President Obama's issues in 2012? He will be renominated and even though I've become disenchanted with him on several issues I will vote for him against ANY GOP nominee.

1) I think he can take credit for saving the American automobile industry and thousands of jobs.

2) So far (and just barely this last quarter) the economy has been growing under his administration despite a higher unemployment rate than in 2009.

3) He is winding down the wars in Iraq and Afganistan.

4) Mission Accomplished on getting Bin Ladden

5) World opinion is more positive under Obama than under Bush

6) "I'm not him (or her)" regarding any of his potential rivals

7) Cut taxes (payroll tax cut) for the many rather than the few.

8) I inherited a bigger mess than I thought and it will take decades to get out of it.

What else...

[gateley]

1. All good approaches. I just hope we learn how to message better since

he'll need to be addressing more specifics this time, I think.

[hifiguy]

2. "I'm not as bad as the other guy."

"I am just a cheap sellout of everything the Democratic PArty has stood for since 1932. The Republican is even worse."

[FLAprogressive]

17. Exactly. This will be his only calling card.

[izquierdista]

3. Change you can fantasize about

If you can't believe it, you can always say it was a dream.

[CanonRay]

4. Not "Hope" and "Change"

That's for sure.

[phantom power]

5. Unless unemployment drops significantly, I don't think there will be any traction with (2)

[Cosmocat]

6. A boatload ...

The two years with Pelosi running the house were two of the most productive legislative years in our history.

Sorry, folks, HCR WAS A BFD. It isn't perfect, but over the last 50 years there is a path of presidents who fell short in enacting ANY HCR. Being all disaffected because it isn't universal (which I think is CLEARLY the way to go) only plays into the Obamacare right wing way of marginalizing it and him.

He has held up HIS end of being the adult in the room. YES, he ends up capitulating more than we would like, but THAT was his promise when he ran. Changing the tone. The Rs might be insatiable lunatics, but he has held HIS end in terms of engaging in a proper process and not engaging in rancorous rhetoric.

[phantom power]

7. I think (4) is about 8 years too late for people to care much, but I could be wrong.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Empty?

[divvy]

9. Running on Empty.......We need a primary to pick a new candidate.

That is the only way to avoid a republican take-over in 2012

[phantom power]

10. I don't think (3) is happening nearly fast enough to be a big selling point.

[phantom power]

11. (2) is meaningless to voters, compared to the terrible unemployment rate

[phantom power]

12. I don't see how (7) plays...

Republicans won't care, they aren't going to vote for him no matter how he triangulates.

Democrats will see it (correctly, in my opinion) as just misguided Reaganesque supply-side policy retread.

The mushy middle just won't care, because the economy stinks and they don't have jobs.

[DJ13]

13. "Change You Cant Count On" ?

[leftstreet]

35. "Start Counting Your Change" ?

[Octafish]

14. Got Osama.

Got Osama.

[undeterred]

15. Got Hope or Spare Change?

[bigwillq]

18. Many voters may not have much change to spare

if the jobs situation doesn't improve soon.

[undeterred]

20. I've been out almost 6 months myself.

[bigwillq]

21. I'm sorry.

Americans deserve better than what we've got now.

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[Demeter]

19. Empty

[William769]

22. None of that will mean anything

With a bad economy. And that is not looking good.

[Shagbark Hickory]

23. He can run on Smaller gummit and free market principles. And border security. nm

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. "Free Bradley Manning"? "No more wars"? "Single Payer"? "Close Guantanamo Now"?

It certainly won't be "Truth in Advertising".

[timtom]

25. Empty?

[blkmusclmachine]

26. Fumes.

n/t

[BlueIdaho]

27. "President Bachmann" - Vote 4 me cuz that's real scary! nt.

[LondonReign2]

28. Hopelessness and Spare Change

eom

[DisgustipatedinCA]

29. I think Obama will win handily, but not because he deserves to

In answer to your question, I think he'll be able to play up certain parts of the healthcare bill to moderates, even though it was a weak bill that started with capitulation and got worse from there. Killing bin Laden will be a feather in his cap--it's all symbolic and we're killing civilians by remote control same as always, but bin Laden's death will help him. He'll score several percentage points for acting like the adult as compared to the GOP, again, with centerists and undecided voters. I don't see him having a real problem against Romney or Bachmann, but I think that I'll need to leave the top of the ballot blank for the first time in my life.

[dtexdem]

30. How about this? "I'm not as batshit crazy as the Repuke!"

Yeah, that about does it.

[NoodleyAppendage]

31. FEAR 2012

HOPE will be replaced by ads and arguments that "the other guys/girl is just too dangerous" to be elected. He can't run on his record, so FEAR will be the default position.

J

[TheKentuckian]

36. Will "Mr Bipartisan" even do that much? Doesn't he have to be the "adult in the room" and above such

harsh talk about the opposition?

[NoodleyAppendage]

44. His minions will do the dirty work while he flies above at 10,000 ft. n/t

J

[TheKentuckian]

45. So, the answer is he won't even tell the truth about his opposition.

He is just going to smile big, try to seem like a reasonable Republican forced to take a few non-Republican actions to save the economy, maybe mention the mess Bush left, and tell motherfuckers to eat their peas?

[applegrove]

32. I think he should run on increasing tax revenues. 80% of Americans agree the rich

should pay more.

[readmoreoften]

33. So this is, like, a backhanded thread to divert people's legitimate anger through spin cycle.

You people are good. Very good. Crafty.

[county worker]

34. When I look for reasons to vote for Obama I look to what I think he will accomplish in the

next four years not what happened in the last four. None of the things you mention helps those who are without hope, without a roof over their heads, without an income, without medical care.

Yeah Bin Ladden is dead now how about a giving the unemployed a job?

[Auntie Bush]

39. When I look for a reason to vote for Obama...I need to look no further

than the thoughts of a republican in office and 6 Consertative SCJ. Now THAT really scares me. :scared:

It distresses me to see all the ReThug talking points quoted on DU. Some of them are worse than those on that other Forum. I thought this forum was to help Democrats get elected...not destroy them! Sometimes this place wants to make me :puke: and I wonder how many posters are really molls? I predict this place to go up in flames if we ever primaried Obama.

[katnapped]

40. Hate to break it to you

But the odds of him nominating anyone BUT a conservative to SCOTUS are just about zero

[spanone]

37. keep the fucking crazies out of the white house

[whatchamacallit]

38. Win the Future and Kill It. n/t

[truebrit71]

41. "Hope and Change - This time I really mean it...trust me..."

:eyes:

[truebrit71]

42. "Who else you gonna vote for, the mormon or the crazy bitch?"

....

[deaniac21]

43. Ethanol