Last week, we may have seen the bottom beginning to drop out of the Obama presidency.<\/p>\n
Even the MSMosphere is starting to feel the good Mitt Romney (or maybe it’s bad Barack Obama) vibrations. Last Friday, ABC News’s Terry Moran tweeted, “Obama’s campaign seems small-bore, predominantly negative, and downright weird (Lena Dunham)\u2014a candidate off-stride in the closing days.”<\/p>\n
I’ll say.<\/p>\n
Let me see: Around the world al Qaeda is resurgent in the Middle East.\u00a0Russia is treating us with menacing contempt.\u00a0Murderous Mexican drug war mayhem is spilling into the United States. Meanwhile unemployment, underemployment, and poverty are on a trajectory that would have the networks and the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>calling for removal of the president from office if the president weren’t Obama.\u00a0And the economy is growing at\u2026well growth is not a word that in any real sense you can apply to the American economy.<\/p>\n So in the midst of these multiple crises, what does the president’s crack re-election team come up with as a big theme? A defining television spot that launches the last days of the campaign and points the way to a brighter future?<\/p>\n Do they put out an economic revival policy that offers anything other than more spending here, more spending there, more spending, more spending everywhere?\u00a0No.\u00a0Not on your life. Forget about that.<\/p>\n Oh, wait, that’s right, he’s going to take the Navy from the current 287 ships to fewer than 230\u2014when the Defense Department’s every-four-year strategic review found that essential American interests cannot be defended without 346.\u00a0And that’s just one branch of our armed services.<\/p>\n And he’s going to tax the rich, when, according to Treasury Department figures, you could tax 100 percent of the income of those making $250,000 a year all the way up to Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and you’d come up with $2.5 trillion.\u00a0Lunch money compared to the national debt of $16 trillion, unfunded liabilities (another form of debt) of $47 trillion, and an annual deficit of $1 trillion.<\/p>\n In other words, the president has nothing serious to say about the economy, the nation’s finances, or national security.<\/p>\n All his campaign can produce is that Lena Dunham business\u2014a young woman advising other young women that first time voting is no different than first time sex with a really great guy.\u00a0 Now don’t misconstrue what I am about to say, but that ad was on a par with the one about Big Bird.\u00a0What are these people thinking?\u00a0I am all for humor in politics, but their stuff is not funny.\u00a0Just juvenile.\u00a0Does Team Obama know the difference?<\/p>\n We are facing one national crisis after another.\u00a0Is this the best the president and his campaign can do?\u00a0If not, they don’t deserve another term, if only for reasons of insulting all of our intelligence and grossing us out.<\/p>\n I said the bottom may have started to drop out for them.\u00a0Not for sure.\u00a0But it could be starting. Look at the Real Clear Politics sample of polls.\u00a0For nearly a full week the Rasmussen and Gallup trackers have put Romney up with 50 percent of the vote.\u00a0Every day.\u00a0These are the two largest samples in the Real Clear Politics lineup.\u00a0The next tier down in numbers surveyed comprises ABC News\/Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Politico<\/em>\/GWU\/Battleground and Monmouth\/SurveyUSA\/Braun.\u00a0The first two have Romney at 49 percent, the third at 48 percent with a three point lead over the president.<\/p>\n Still there’s Ohio. In a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, political analyst Henry Olson speculated that Romney would not be able to bring blue-collar whites without college degrees over to him and would lose the Buckeye State.<\/p>\n You can hear that view all over Washington and its corollary: Whoever wins Ohio wins the presidency.\u00a0\u00a0There has been serious speculation around Washington the last few days that Romney will win the popular vote and not the Electoral College, giving the president a second term.<\/p>\n Hold on a minute.\u00a0We have seen a wave develop in public opinion.\u00a0Why would we believe it stops now? Doesn’t the bizarreness of the president’s campaign tell us what he and his managers believe\u2014that things are going south for them and they have no plausible ideas for stopping the collapse?<\/p>\n Also, Team Obama is surely looking at the same polls that I am.\u00a0 It is inching close to a certainty that Romney has an alternative to winning Ohio. With Colorado and Missouri moving his way, Wisconsin should put him over, too.<\/p>\n Yup, the bottom may be dropping out for the Obama presidency.\u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, we may have seen the bottom beginning to drop out of the Obama presidency. Even the MSMosphere is starting to feel the good Mitt Romney (or maybe it’s bad Barack Obama) vibrations. 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