Could Obama Face A Democrat Challenger

[wkmac]

This article from HuffPo about 9 months ago posed that question but since then things have only gotten worse. More and more of the principled left base is either about to jump ship or already has and some began to ask 4 months ago should they shift support to Ron Paul regardless of Paul's other warts. Just over 2 weeks ago, the respected left/progressive John V. Walsh raised the name of Ron Paul with the question of whether or not to abandon Obama. Today I see this and ask how bad it gets before the talk of a challenger among democrats becomes serious?

Granted, a single job report, good day at the stock market or some other good economic news can turn everything on a dime for the President and in the case of Paul, one word that scares left/progressives while they sip a little tea for taste, and they all run home a lot quicker than they came over. Way to early to tell but based on trends and current patterns, if Obama's not worried then I'd say he's either resigned to go home in Jan. 2013' or he's prepared to pull an executive order trigger no one ever thought possible.

 

[The Other Side]

NO.

End of thread.

Motion to adjourn? i's have it. motion passed.

Peace

 

[wkmac]

Afraid not Hotshot!

From Black Agenda Report:

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its own “jobs tour,” without any government jobs, and the House progressive caucus is denouncing the series of rolling raids on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security that the debt deal sets in motion. But will this, or anything stop progressives from re-hiring Chef Obama again in 2012?

The progressive Democrats will be reminding us that we have no choice --- not because we have no choices, but because they have already made theirs. Political progressives are, after all, married to their careers, not to the people. As long as our vision stretches no further than the next election, they almost make sense.

Barack's Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway?

“A consciously Black opposition to the First Black President, on issues of peace and economic justice, is taking shape.” Some of the players “on tour”: Cynthia McKinney’s “Eyewitness Libya” tour; Tavis Smiley and Cornel West’s “Poverty Tour”; and Congressional Black Caucus efforts to put distance between themselves and Obama on their “Job Fair/Town Hall” tour. Meanwhile, Obama’s minions attempt to maintain a “Black Wall” around the president, with diminishing results. “The realization that the dream was a chimera is one thing, but to awaken to a catastrophe in which the Great Black Hope is revealed as the Great Black Betrayer, is another magnitude of pain.”

Obama Slipping: Black America Waking Up - To the Nightmare

And the question of whether African American voters would abandon Obama started getting asked in the African American Press almost a year ago.

As was once said, "the chickens are coming home to roost!"

 

[moreluck]

I don't know.....I hear Roseanne is running and she's a businesswoman now.........that's experience Obama has never had. Roseanne's got nuts!

 

[wkmac]

Oh and there's more.

What about Counterpunch:

Like Hoover, Obama rode into office partly on the widespread belief that he was some sort of brilliant and charismatic character - a maverick from the “best and the brightest” and outside the traditional political class who had risen above partisanship and ideology. But also like Hoover. Obama has blown his chance to lead because he is deeply beholden to the business elite in ideological and other ways.

The Economics of Barack O'Hoover

More and more people are fed up. Press releases and email alerts are reaching absurd extremes. With Congress reduced to a 12-member committee that will set our budgetary priorities for years to come, organizations are politely asking that the committee include one or two humane individuals, or that the committee's meetings be live-streamed or its decisions be posted publicly for 72 hours prior to being rammed down our throats. These absurd proposals come out of a divided left, one side of which is not ready to admit that nonviolent resistance is required or that Democrats ought to be held to the same standards as Republicans.

The Divided Left

And starting in Oct. Obama will begin to face an onslaught not from right wing nuts but from the very left/progressive base who created the wave he rode into office in 2008'. Here's just a small sample for Cartoonist Ted Rall.

And in case you think Ted is some lone voice, think again as some of the most principled voices in the American Left will be there with Ted.

This are voices from the progressive left and it's only a drop in the bucket. Not one is from a tea party or what you like to call a wingnut. While you've been busy looking in the wrong direction a whole other train has been barreling down the tracks and you'd better jump on board or get off the tracks as this monster is growing and is going to roll you over!