I posted yesterday a diary on President Obama based off his record does not deserving the Democratic nomination for President. The poll results of my post were interesting with twenty percent more answering "yes" to the question of does President Obama deserve a primary challenge. A lot of people in that diary asked who could possibly challenge President Obama, I tell you who, Matt Damon. We need to draft Matt Damon to run for President. I know I will be blasted for this but hear me out below the fold.
The President ran on "Hope and Change" however totally failed on delivering that and he cannot do that again. He was handed a Democratic House and Senate and got very little done in regard to addressing the big problems our country is facing. The people were ready for change and voted that way and President Obama did not show the leadership and courage to make the change happen. We still have two wars, Wall Street doing whatever it wants, Gitmo, a horrible healthcare system , social security cuts on the table, the environment being raped, Bush's tax cuts in place, a falling housing market but most importantly it all comes done to JOBS. So what does this mean for the Democrats in 2012? It means we are super fucked.
2008 presented a massive opportunity and President Obama totally wasted it and the voters know that. He received a great deal of votes from Independents and Republicans that thought change was needed, they will not vote for him again. He has lost many on the left, Bernie Sanders thinks a primary is a good ideahis approval is tanking to levels where a road map to electoral victory is bleak even with his billion dollar war chest. Check out this poll Daily Presidential Tracking Poll 9.4.2011 it look very bleak.
So to the point of this diary, we need Matt Damon to run for President. No member of the Democratic insider machine will or could challenge Obama but an outsider could. An outsider with name recognition who could run on Democratic principals, that actually believes them and would work to make them happen could challenge Obama. Someone who could truly represent an opportunity for change stands a chance to bring those that voted for Obama back to voting for a Democratic President.
Many will say he stands no chance because he has no experience, he could play that as a strength and not a weakness. The American people are fed up and rightly so, with that being the case a political outsider could stand a chance. We don't need a career politician anymore we need someone with integrity and intelligence and a good moral compass to right our failing country. From all I have read and seen on Matt Damon he has that potential. He comes from working class background, believes strongly in Democratic ideals and expresses them very articulately.
To put it in football terms the Democratic party has the ball on their own ten yard line with five seconds to go. We can either run it up the middle with Obama or run a flea flicker or statue of Liberty play with an outsider. I think that outsider could be Matt Damon and so does Micael Moore. I say we need to draft Matt Damon to challenge Obama for the Democratic nomination. We need a real Democrat and that is not Obama.
Ok go ahead and destroy me for this.