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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (100482)	9/1/2011 1:24:25 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Well, said! To: stockman_scott who wrote (100479) 8/31/2011 11:27:23 PM From: zeta1961 of 100491 Scaring people re: identity theft is quite clever...Scott, we really are dealing with ruthless, immoral corporations with teapartiers as their foil...It's incumbent on those of us who can, to work on defeating them....it rea

To: zeta1961 who wrote (100482)	9/1/2011 7:16:45 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

TIME's MICHAEL SCHERER , in the forthcoming issue -- 'Can He Step Up His Game? Obama's next move: if he can't fix the economy, make sure the Republicans get the blame': 'In June, ... White House chief of staff Bill Daley arranged a secret retreat for his senior team at Fort McNair ... Historian Michael Beschloss went along as a guest speaker to help answer the one question on everyone's mind: How does a U.S. President win re-election with the country suffering unacceptably high rates of unemployment? The historian's lecture provided a lift for Barack Obama's team. No iron law in politics is ever 100% accurate, Beschloss told the group. Two Presidents in the past century-Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 and Ronald Reagan in 1984-won re-election amid substantial economic suffering. Both used the same two-part strategy: FDR and Reagan argued that the country, though in pain, was improving and that their opponents, anchored in past failures, would make things worse. ... The President's aides, all but resigned to unemployment above 8% on Election Day, now see in Roosevelt and Reagan a plausible path to victory. They intend to make sure voters believe a year from now that their fortunes are improving, and they plan to persuade the American people that a Republican in the White House would be a step backward. ... Obama will try to divert the public's frustration with Washington toward his main enemy, the GOP.'