In his appearance on ABC’s “The View,” President Obama was asked how tight he thinks the campaign against Mitt Romney will be. To which the president responded, “When your name is Barack Obama, it’s always tight.”
Actually, that’s not true.
Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 was the most sweeping since 1980. He became the first Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson 44 years earlier to garner more than 50.1 percent of the vote. In the process, he took seven states that had twice voted for George W. Bush, including two (Indiana and Virginia) that had not gone Democratic since 1964.
The implication of Obama’s statement is that there’s residual hostility to him based on his race and background. But if that were the case, how does one explain his smashing victory four years ago?
The reason Obama is struggling this time around is sheer incompetence. He’s not up to the job of being president. Much of the public knows it. And his name has nothing to do with it.
The president’s comments were simply the most recent in a string of never-ending excuses. His problems are never his responsibility; they always lie with something or someone else – whether it’s with the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami, Europe, his predecessor, the GOP Congress, the Tea Party, Super PACs, the Supreme Court, Wall Street, millionaires, billionaires, the Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, ATMs, conservative talk radio, or, now, his name.
Obama is in a nearly constant state of whining. That’s an unattractive quality in any individual, but especially in an American president.
He would do himself and all of us a favor if he took at least a pause from the blame game.
Ninety percent of what the man says is a lie, so why would he not lie about the baggage his name supposedly carries? Thank God our presidents are rarely this pathetic.
A good time for him to change his name would be after the election, when the name "Barak Obama" will be officially attached to the biggest mistake in the White House for the last 150 years.
Opps Oh Well I told you so, as a black independent thinking NOT of the Main Stream Black Ideologue thinking crowd. From day one, we said this lying Muslim, Homosexual and Fraud is not fit for any government job, and he voted present on all of bills. His Chicago district has the worst crime rate, and as usual among this minority POVERTY ridden neighborhoods. So what do you expect?
He is a product of an entitlement society. He is supposed to be a great president because he was the first black elected as president. That works in an affirmative action world, but in the real dog eat dog world, success is measured by your actual achievement, not your predecessors failures. n nIn 2008, millions of us voted for Obama to prove that racism is in America's rear view mirror (not gone, but going away) and we believed in the change. Four years and a hundred rounds of golf later, many millions more of us will vote against Obama, just to prove there is still intelligent life in America.
Precisely. n nA key part of racial grievance is wallowing in self-pity. n nAnd that's what Obama does, all the time.
We voted for that resonant message of Hope and Change and Transparency and and and and. We gave him a pass on Rev. Wright and a host of things that would have pretty much instantly lost the election for anybody else cause he sounded so good. Oops.
Had Barack Obama been white, he would never have been elected. He was elected because a significant number of white people saw him as a way to assauge their guilt for America's racist past and were anxious to prove that our country could indeed elect a black man as president. And in the long run, that's not an insignificant thing. n nBut now the novelty has worn off and while there will still be plenty of people who are so swept up in his cult of personal adoration that they will never admit that he can do wrong, most voters out there are going to judge him on his actual record this time around. That's why he's in trouble.
No, its you who does not get it. Obama's name and heritage automatically gives Mitt Romney about a 4-6 points advantage over the president. Most Birthers n right-wing Republicans just hate him for who he is not cos of his policies. nIf today he agrees to cut taxes for billionaires, they will the next day come out and say no they disagrees cos it will balloon the deficit. Go figure. Everything he does they disagree and not just that, but they hate him as if his committed a crimes against their relative.
"Most Birthers n right-wing Republicans just hate him for who he is not cos of his policies." n nReally? n nDo you remember the Clinton years? What was the reason for the Republican's "hate" for him? n
Yes we don't like him 'for who he is'. That would be an incompetent, narcissistic, far-left liberal, whose policies have led to higher deficits, made businesses afraid to hire, pitted one group after another against each other, helped put the Muslim Brotherhood in power in the middle-east (Slavery for women as they implement Sharia), implemented a healthcare takeover that the majority of the public did not want, etc. Of course just like Obama you need an excuse for his failure, someone else to blame, so why not his name or color, or some other world disaster. As stated in the article he got elected by a strong majority, who new his name and color, but now those same voters have been hit by a right-wing bigot ray, and now want him out. Or maybe his performance doesn't live up to the advertising, and now he has a record (bad) to run on.
Actually, he has committed crimes against their relatives, and against them directly. His signature piece of legislation tries to compel handing over money in a fashion that the Supreme Court is about to establish that the government Obama heads had no right to do. Ask the Chrysler bondholders whose SECURED investment was overlooked in favor of Obama's pals at the UAW. Last I checked, smuggling guns to Mexican drug lords was not a legal activity. An American citizen in Yemen was assassinated by remote control. Every time someone buys a Chevy Volt (admittedly a rare occurrence), the taxpayers are mugged of $7,000 to be handed to the poor deluded soul at the dealership. nAnd by the way, the list is hardly exhaustive. The Democratic Party is a criminal enterprise.
You may want to play the race card for him, but it is you who do not get it. There was a far more qualified black man who should have bee the first black president, Gov. Doug Wilder of Virginia. Many of us wanted him to run, but the Democratic party rejected him because he was a moderate, not a liberal. Gov. wilder was also outspoken about the breakdown of the family, especially black ones. The race card just does not cut it. I look to performance and not whether black, white or brown, or male or female. nObama gives a good show, but the results are indicative of his competence.
Well, he also got into a feud with Senator Robb reaching the point that Robb accused Wilder of sicking the state troopers on him and Robb being accused of wiretapping Wilder. But it's hard to leverage Virginia political office into the next rung. Ask George Allen or Lieutenant Gov. Don Beyer.
Wilder was the first elected African American governor and from a state in the South. Hardly credentials to sneeze at by the Democrat party, but they did. He did a great job too. n nHard to leverage Virginia political office to the next rung?? Virginia is known as the Mother of Presidents with eight of them.
John….what word is "cos"? And how does a guy with a name we used to use for a baseball ball glove have anything on the name Barack? If he had been my friend in high school, Mitt's nickname would have been "Catchers". n nMost right wingers do not hate Obama. They hate what he has done and continues to do to our country. There is a big difference between hating a person and hating what he does. n nWhat I'd really like to know is this: What, if anything other than him being half black, about Obama appeals to you? What, of his policies, has been so widely successful that you'll actually vote for him again? Seriously, are you going to vote for him because of skin pigmentation?
And you base your statements on what facts? I've not heard anyone I know claim they were going to vote for Mitt "because he's white" but I sure heard that plenty in '08…
If the election of Barack Obama has taught us anything, it's taught us that no matter how much we wish it were so that there's no way race can be a non-issue in America. Those on the Left side of American politics, including the president himself… will not allow it. __Any criticism leveled at Obama's policies, even those that are exactly the same as the ones leveled at Clinton in the 90s… are immediately attacked as RACIST.__Sadly, this proves that as a nation, we were and are not yet honest or mature enough to have a Black president..__We must be able to have honest dialogue about our problems or we're doomed.____Remember this when you go to the polls in November.____
As I started reading your comment, I almost flew off the handle – at the " — no way race can be a non-issue" part and then happily I continued. They really have to play that race card or anything that divides us into little boxes as heaven forbid, we would all be individuals, responsible for ourselves. And so we get enslaved.
He wishes that he could change it but he can't. Isn't being himself, good enough?
Conman is as conman does.
This is not Baracks real name anyway, he never officially had it changed. One more issue that never got vetted with this man. n nMitt has far more experience at business and the economy than does Barry Sabatoe, really. n nMitt 2012
Obama's behaviour is typical of men of low character, we've all endured men like him a hundred times over.
Barack Obama would not have been elected if his name were Barry Obama or Barack Johnson. Guilt tripped white voters wanted to vote for an "authentic black man."
And we got a cut rate Tiger Woods. Well, one who taught himself not to chase white tail.
Why not blame Bush? Liberals tend to look to social issues as breeding grounds for as the cause for what happens while a capitalist tends to look at direct cause and effect. If a business is losing money, a liberal would look to start educational programs that might ultimately help where a capitalist would invent machinery to make production more efficient.
"The president’s comments were simply the most recent in a string of never-ending excuses." n nIt's not simply an excuse. It's the race card, played from the bottom of the deck. He implies — without being candid enough to say it — that the reason he's losing is that people will vote against him because they're racist (never mind that they voted FOR him 4 years ago) n nThat's deplorable. Especially for a guy who promised to be a "uniter, not divider". n nThe personal popularity that BO enjoyed despite widespread disagreement with his policies, is starting to diminish. This kind of win-at-any-cost mentality is a good part of the reason why. Good and fair-minded people who gave an inexperienced black man the benefit of the doubt 4 years ago don't like being called racists. Duh.
Libs thrive on being victims
"Obama is in a nearly constant state of whining." n nThat's one of the 57 States in the Union, right!?
I'm sorry, if you are unable to acknowledge that when the President took office we were at the beginning of the greatest economic downturn since the great depression and he had nothing to do with it, then I don't see how you can be taken seriously. Now, if you want to argue that his policies have not done enough to get us out of it and you have better ideas, then I'm all ears. But all I hear out of Republicans these days is more of the same policies as Bush II, which didn't seem to work out too well.
The recession started in 2007, not 2009, Obama had something to do with it. He was a prominent Senator in the majority party for two years. Instead of trying to deal with the recession, he spent all of his time running for president. The root cause of the recession was subprime mortgages. Obama encouraged them. He was no innocent bystander. n nIn 2009 Obama said that in 2012 he would be judged by the current state of the economy. He promoted a failed stimulus package. When you squander $ 1 trillion you own the economy. n nObama is implementing the same types of polices that got Europe into so much trouble. They can't blame Bush. Neither can Obama. Neither can you.
I do not have to look any farther than his handling of the Gulf oil spill to know that he is either a total incompetent or an agenda driven idealogue……No man, sitting in his position of power, with all the resources at his command, sits on his hands, blocks and obfuscates the atttempts of other competent men, I.E. the governors of all the Gulf states, from doing their job. n n He kept foreign skimmer ships, already manned and ready from operating, because they weren't manned with American union workers. n n Miles of boom never left the warehouse, when it could have been delivered in days.
The name itself was a carefully considered constructed signifier when Barry decided to tack more forcefully into internationalist pan-racist universalism. He can always rebrand.
Why are we still not using his middle name? Does that not worry you? Why are we being politically correct when we already know his true nature and what he's shown to be his true intents? Maybe Hussan would like to own up or just keep lieing about everything. Time to make a change. Even Rev Wright isn't coving for him or Michelle, now.