Americans love winners, and if President Obama scores more victories like the ones he has enjoyed over the last two months, he will easily win re-election.
For the first two years of his term, Obama, to the chagrin of his supporters, mostly remained silent while his opponents maliciously maligned him.
They said he was a Muslim. They said he wasn’t born in the United States. They said he didn’t write his own books. They said he was a socialist. They said he hated white people.
Obama’s nonchalant attitude in the face of these attacks flabbergasted and frustrated his supporters, who wanted him to defend his character and stand up for the progressive policies of the New Deal and the Great Society — policies that his opponents were targeting.
Well, Obama finally did stand up and showed himself to be a tough and decisive leader.
He started to turn things around in his budget speech on April 13, when he beautifully explained the noble purpose behind our social welfare programs.
“We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff, may strike any one of us,” he said. “So we contribute to programs like Medicare and Social Security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work; unemployment insurance, which protects us against unexpected job loss; and Medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, and those with disabilities. We are a better country because of these commitments. I’ll go further — we would not be a great country without those commitments.”
And he laid down the gauntlet against Republicans who want to slash Medicare and Medicaid.
“I will not allow Medicare to become a voucher program that leaves seniors at the mercy of the insurance industry, with a shrinking benefit to pay for rising costs,” he said. “I will not tell families with children who have disabilities that they have to fend for themselves.”
Then on May 1, during the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner, Obama delivered a knockout blow to Donald Trump, who had been slandering him for weeks. Obama reduced Trump to a punch line on late-night comedy shows.
One day later, Obama, taking a great political risk, successfully sent a team of Navy Seals to kill Osama bin Laden.
These actions have sent Obama’s approval rating up to a comfortable 54 percent in the latest CNN poll.
His popularity helps explain why one prospective Republican presidential candidate after another has been dropping out. Obama looks like a champ.
To be a real champ, Obama now needs to end the tax cuts for the rich, withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and get the DREAM Act passed.
Cross-posted from The Progressive.
Indeed, Obama is the president America needed most after the Libido Clinton put America into the decline mode and Zombie Bush’s Autocracy drove America into the fall mode.
The only thing better would be for Hillary to join Obama on the 2012 ticket, then the democrats can restore the legacy of greatness the Greatest Generation passed on to us.
The sooner the republicans become extinct, following their 18th century Tory role models who tried to prevent democracy before them, the sooner America can recover from their betrayals.
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I love this article and the 2 comments too. I wish there are more people open up and say more positive and truthful things, like these people have just done, about President Obama’s excellent performance in tackling the problems & mess created by Bush, one of the worst presidents. The conservatives have consistently and continually lie and distort everything that President Obama has done, tried to do and wants to do for the good of the country. These people have no conscience and no sympathy for the helpless and the vulnerable. Instead, they shamelessly and endlessly sympathize with the rich people and big businesses. Horrible people conservatives and GOPs are!!!
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Thanks Mr. President,
For: bringing the number of women in the Supreme Court to 3, For: making the White House the “people’s” house, For: 1.1 million jobs created in 2010 alone, more than the entire 8 years of George W. Bush, For: Health Care reform, For: the world respect for America , again, For: quietly and calmly dealing with crisis after crisis, after crisis, after crisis, even if not being responsible for any of them, For: being fierce when needed, For: the capacity to know that you, as we are-Imperfect, For: saving
the auto industry and at minimum 1.4 million jobs, For: loving the troops, bringing home 100,000 from Iraq and understanding the horrible price of war, For: facing the most difficult and loneliest job in the world with grace, dignity, honesty and guts in spite of so many immature and insecure haters.
Again Thank you Mr Predisent
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Truly, Obama is not oly a champ, but he speaks like one. And though his first term is almost over, I truly believe that the Dream Act will pass or some kind of Immigration Reform ( cuz now the House Republicans have dropped a hint that they might be ready to deal with it, Mr. Beohner). Obama is not only a president who has really, really bought change to America, but he was God sent to clean up the mess Bush had done in the 8yrs he was in office. God bless the legal and illegal immigrants, President Obama, and America. Bye
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