Clintonites Hit The Panic Button
For Obama
Former
aides to President Bill Clinton are calling for a dramatic shift in their
party's economic message before the November election, warning of an
"impossible headwind in November," if they continue on their current
path.
The
two political operations — Clinton and Obama — have never seen eye-to-eye, and
now some of the top voices of the Democratic 1990s have shifted into open
criticism of a political operation they cast as overly negative and reactive,
and failing to offer a positive set of plans for the economy.
Clinton's
1992 campaign pollster, Stan Greenberg, and his former campaign manager,
Democratic operative James Carville, raised alarm today about President Barack
Obama's economic message in a memo written with pollster Erica Seifert for
Democracy Corps . . .
"What
is clear from this fresh look at public consciousness on the economy is how
difficult this period has been for both non-college-educated and
college-educated voters — and how vulnerable the prevailing narratives
articulated by national Democratic leaders are," they write. "We will
face an impossible headwind in November if we do not move to a new narrative,
one that contextualizes the recovery but, more importantly, focuses on what we
will do to make a better future for the middle class."
Editor’s
notes: we have been
preaching this for months, now, but it
is clear that the Democrat Party is hopelessly divided over campaign issues and
strategies. Understand that Barry believes he is a great
campaigner. In the days leading up to
the 2010 midterms, some in his party
worried about that election because of the unpopularity of ObamaCare. Party
members remember the days of Clinton,
the push in his first two years to legislate universal health care and
the disastrous midterm results of 1994.
Addressing those concerns in 2010,
Obama told his leadership that “this election will be different; this time you have me.”
And with that, we
have his appraisal of his campaign abilities. Understand this: if
Obama loses and Hillary stays clear of the implosion, she just might be in good position to win the presidency in 2016, at least, that
is the Clintonian strategy. Like it or not, Hillary polls with the highest approval numbers of any politician on the scene, today . . . . . . . . . in either party. Unless the GOP can tie her to Obama -- which they need to be doing with their campaign ads, now -- she just might come through this ordeal unscathed.
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