My support for him is as strong as ever and, despite all of the kvetching by progressives and demonizing by conservatives, I predict he’ll be reelected in a Reagan-style landslide.
(In support of Obama: my abiding … HOPE, The iPINIONS Journal, August 12, 2011)
First and foremost I think Obama should be reelected based solely on his record of accomplishments. In fact, even though Republicans roundly condemned him as an uppity braggart, none of them challenged his assertion recently that only three presidents could boast of similar accomplishments during their first term.
Nonetheless, I am mindful that, with Democrats doing almost as much as Republicans to foil his pragmatic agenda, Obama has been looking a lot like Wile Coyote lately: beep, beep.
We are in for some of the dirtiest and most divisive campaigning in U.S. history, and that’s just among Republican presidential candidates vying for their party’s nomination. But when all is said and done, I am convinced that even some Republican-leaning voters will think twice about helping to perpetrate the historic spectacle of reelecting George W. Bush to a second term – after he nearly bankrupted the country with his tax cuts for the rich and unfunded wars, but denying Obama a second term – despite his bipartisan efforts to clean up the mess Bush left behind.
Besides, trust me folks, race matters. This is why disappointed supporters like actor Matt Damon, as well as white independents whose votes are so indispensable, will also think twice about causing this first black president to go down in history as a failure – especially given all of the mediocre white presidents who cruised to second terms.
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