Recipe for a One Term Presidency.
Step 1. Insult your base every chance you get, waterdown everything you ran on, negotiate against yourself at every turn and get NOTHING for it.
Step 2. Pander to people who will NEVER VOTE FOR YOU. Give them as much legitimacy as you can.
Step 3. Cede as much power as you can to the people who wrecked the American economy, call it bipartisanship
Step 4. Campaign on "Hey, it could be worse!"
Step 5. Have NO jobs plan
Step 6. Abandon the working class that makes up the overwhelming majority of voters
Step 7. Protect at all costs the richest Americans and their business interests that makes up the overwhelming majority of political donors
Step 8. Write memoir, titled "The Audacity of Meh"
Step 9. Pray that the Republican party nominates Sarah Palin
Step 10. Curl into fetal position, blame it on the hippies who just never knew how awesome you were
Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com
This seems like a brilliant plan, FOR ME TO POOP ON!
In my view, at this point it looks like the only way to get Obama to listen to your concerns is to VOTE REPUBLICAN or become very, very rich.
Because when Obama extends the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% Obama will have cemented into place almost every aspect of the Bush/Cheney Administration. I would NEVER vote for Bush/Cheney, and I won't be voting for the Democratic version of the Bush/Cheney agenda either.
So Obama has two choices. He can try to find common ground with Republicans who are trying to destroy him and have a repeat of 2010, or he can try fighting on behalf of people who might actually fucking vote for him.
There is no third way.
There is a 10 step program for Obama to not only WIN re-election, but to help working class Americans who make up the majority of voters.
Step 1. GET A JOBS CREATION PLAN
Step 2. CREATE JOBS
Step 3. CREATE JOBS
Step 4. Create a JOBS commission
Step 5. Hold a bipartisan JOBS SUMMIT (Might I suggest the Sam Adams Summit?)
Step 6. CONSTANTLY ask other politicians in public what THEIR Jobs Plan is
Step 7. CONSTANTLY tell the American public what YOUR jobs plan is
Step 8. Use steps 1-8 to CREATE JOBS, and do NOT listen to the Republicans who have said in public that their #1 goal is to destroy your presidency
Step 9. Shift the tax burden OFF of the working class and poor and ONTO the rich who can easily afford it after 10 years of boom times for the plutonomy under Bush/Cheney
Step 10. Start ENDING these tremendously expensive, and increasingly un-winnable, goal less wars.
There are two America's. One is having a repeat of the roaring 20's. The other is covered in a dust bowl with no money. Whose side is Barack Obama on anyway?