"I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say. He's never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002." --- Hillary Clinton 2008Mark Halperin at TIME has a piece out where he says:
With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.
On Friday, after the release of the latest bleak unemployment data — the last major jobs figures before the midterms — Obama said, "Putting the American people back to work, expanding opportunity, rebuilding the economic security of the middle class is the moral and national challenge of our time." But elites feel the President has failed to meet that challenge and are convinced he will be unable to do so in the remainder of his term. Moreover, there is a growing perception that Obama's decisions are causing harm — that businesses are being hurt by the Administration's legislation and that economic recovery is stalling because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, deficits, housing, immigration and spending.
And that sentiment is spreading. Many members of the general public appear deeply skeptical of Obama's capacity to turn things around, especially, but not exclusively, those inclined to dislike him — Tea Partyers and John McCain voters, but also tens of millions of middle-class Americans, including quite a few who turned out for Obama in 2008.
Many are not surprised.
The people who pointed out before the presidential election in 2008 that Barack Obama did not have any executive experience are not surprised to see Obama floundering.
The people who pointed to Obama's voting record in 2008 as evidence of his leanings are not surprised Obama and Democrats have increased our massive debt and are seeing unemployment consistently at 9.5 or higher for over a year, are not surprised that he has fumbled and dragged the whole Democratic party over the cliff with him.
Joe Biden was right when he said the "presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training."
Yet that is what we have, an inexperienced, petulant child running the United States of America right into the ground with a Democratically controlled Senate and House of Representatives pushing his agenda through Congress, to the point of not even fully reading the legislation they are jamming through aka Obamacare.
We may not be able to replace Obama until 2012, but we certainly can replace the babysitters with Senators and Representatives that will not allow the "isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless" Obama to destroy what is left of America.
That is what the 2010 midterm elections are about.
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