Comments on: White House developing strategy to avoid traditional second-term pitfalls

By: 86

86 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:04:44 +0000

There’s Benghazi, Algeria, and FEMA botching the Sandy aftermath at least as badly as it did with Katrina, to name just a few Obama leadership disasters. In a rational world, these things would mean that the stage is set for his second term to make Nixon’s second term look like the greatest moment in presidential history. But Obama will continue to get one free pass after another. Why does he need to strategize to avoid second-term pitfalls? He might as well set out to deliberately fail, becasue the media will call him a success every step of the way, no matter what he does.

By: Wethal

Wethal — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:33:03 +0000

Already buttering up the historians like he did the reporters.

Did any of the historians swoon?

By: Mimzey

Mimzey — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:25:42 +0000

Focused like a laser on job growth.

By: Sekhmet

Sekhmet — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:07:12 +0000

That will be easy. All he has to do is gain the cooperation of the next four hurricane seasons, the terrorists he has encouraged through “smart diplomacy,” the grabby foreign powers also encouraged by “smart diplomacy,” and put governors like Rick Perry under arrest.

Popcorn, anyone?

By: CW

CW — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:55:36 +0000

White House developing strategy to avoid traditional second-term pitfalls

That’s original.
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By: Wethal

Wethal — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:55:02 +0000

“His knowledge of what other presidents did in their second terms, what happened in their second terms, it’s very impressive,” said Robert A. Caro, the Lyndon B. Johnson biographer…

I'd guess he had some underling do all the research and write one-page summaries for him. That would give him more time on the links.

By: Wethal

Wethal — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:53:16 +0000

Let me guess…

1. Destroy GOP.

2. Take back House in 2014.

By: Kensington

Kensington — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:46:11 +0000

Let me guess. If they don’t get their way on absolutely everything they’ll scream “racist” and convince stupid women that the Republicans are going to take away their tampons.

By: Weight of Glory

Weight of Glory — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:32:05 +0000

I should’ve said 85 billion…per month.

By: Weight of Glory

Weight of Glory — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:31:14 +0000

New strategy will be as follow:

Trust that the Press will never, ever, look into your administration , or drill down into any story that may harm you.

It worked with Egypt, Libya, Benghazi, Keystone Pipeline, Fed unsterilized asset purchases to the tune of 85 billion dollars, no budget out of the Democrat Senate for four years, selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, etc.