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Challenges Obama, Palin and Romney face in the 2012 elections
by Joseph Ernest December 7, 2010
Newscast Media -- As 2012 gets closer, each of the potential candidates for president on the GOP side and the incumbent president will have to face a set of unique challenges. These challenges have to be addressed before the primaries in order to get voters to commit to the candidate of their choice. On one hand we have a president who has to ensure that his supporters do not defect or stay home. On the other hand, we have potential candidates who have to persuade new and existing voters to cast their votes for them.
I will address Barack Obama's challenges in this article then will tackle Sarah Palin separately here and Mitt Romney in yet this other article.
Barack Obama's greatest challenge is overcoming the betrayal his supporters feel because of the broken promises he made, at the same time pleasing the big banks who funded his campaign. He wages war that not even the media can help him with. You see, the hardest thing to do is win over someone who has been offended. Obama reads from a telepromter and it is impossible for him to convince his voters that those words are coming from the heart, even when he is sincere.
One thing he should do is take a chance and step away from the telepromter and reconnect with his voters. For almost all his presidency the legislation and executive orders he has signed did nothing to help the middle-class voters, but he now realizes, after the primaries, that if he continues to ignore his base, all they have to do is stay home, and the Republicans will Waltz their way into the presidency. Barack Obama doesn't want to be a one-time president, and knows that there is a reckoning that needs to be reckoned. What you now see is a man seeking redemption. Redemption not just from his base, but from the American people. Initially he always blamed the Bush administration for everything that went wrong even under his watch, but now he realizes that blame-game is old, so he is beginning to take personal responsibility for his policies.
This shift is also partly as a result of Jeb Bush's interview with the New York Times on June 22, 2010, where the former Florida governor seemed to chastise Obama when he said, "It's kind of like a kid coming to school saying, 'The dog ate my homework,' Bush said of the current administration's criticism of the former president. "It's childish. This is what children do until they mature. They don't accept responsibility." Bush then continued to say, "This would break his heart, to get advice that applies some of the lessons of leadership my brother learned, because he apparently likes to act like he's still campaigning, and he likes to blame George's administration for everything."
In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law. The Act created the "Federal Reserve System" which transferred control of the money supply from Congress to the banking system. It is reported by George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, page 56, in 1924, that Woodrow Wilson bitterly regretted what he did and said, "I am a most unhappy man; unwittingly I have ruined my country..."
When H.R. 3808 was presented to Obama, there are many media practitioners who predicted that he had simply "pocket vetoed" it and would take sides with the bankers by signing it. However, a "pocket veto" is impossible while the Senate is still in session.
To their surprise, and to Obama's credit, he full-vetoed the bill. Had he signed H.R. 3808, the bill would have allowed banks to perpetrate fraudulent foreclosures and legalize the practice of "robo-signing" or "robo-notarizing, hence numerous homeowners would be evicted under fraudulent documents. The bill was written for the banks to reward them for the fraud they had been committing since 2000. In essence H.R. 3808 would require any Federal or State court to recognize any notarization of mortgages and other documents made by a notary public licensed by a State other than the State where the court is located when such notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce.
This would allow pre-signed notarized forms to be mailed to the desired locations in the absence of the notary public. The recipient could then craft whatever information he or she desired, then deliver it to a homeowner or property owner as a legitimate document. This maneuver would help accelerate the foreclosure process on behalf of the banks, without going through the proper channels.
Barack Obama stated that he would not encourage fraud against innocent Americans and therefore vetoed it.
This is a sign that Obama is seeking redemption. In his own words Mr. Obama said, "I neglected some things that matter a lot to people, and rightly so: maintaining a bipartisan tone in Washington, I'm going to redouble my efforts to go back to some of those first principles."
Continuing on the path he described above would help him redeem himself to a certain extent in the eyes of his voters. When it comes to the war issue which his supporters are extremely angry about, for now he has forbidden any strike on Iran. He won't even allow a proxy war to be propagated under his watch, because he already has too many domestic issues on his desk, and it would be counter-productive for him to start yet another war, when he ran on the theme of ending wars.
As for strategies to beat either Palin or Romney, that's a whole different story. The first step is to reclaim the base that feels betrayed and lied to, thereafter, he can think of developing a strategy for the opponent he will run against in the general elections. In the back of our minds we should not forget that the biggest game changer in all this would if Jeb Bush decided to run. Add Comments>>
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