Obama puts bully in bully pulpit
Good. Bring it on.
Obama puts bully in bully pulpit
By Amie Parnes - 04/14/12 06:00 AM ET
President Obama in recent days has provided a taste of the sharp tone he will use in the general election against Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Obama has emerged this year with sharper elbows than the “no-drama" candidate had in 2008. He is injecting drama, cranking up the rhetoric, for example by chiding Romney and congressional Republicans as being "radical" and “members of the flat Earth society.”
Obama, as one former aide put it, "is putting the bully in bully pulpit."
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“The base has been frustrated to discover that congressional politics is a glacially slow process,” said one former Obama aide. “So he has to turn up the volume and take the fight to the streets a bit more.”
Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said Obama is drawing a very distinct contrast of himself and Mitt Romney together with Congressional Republicans.
“It makes sense for him to draw that contrast forcefully,” Simmons said. “It gets Democrats riled up and it keeps his people on board. The sooner he defines that choice and the more often, the better.
“It’s a very different campaign,” Simmons added. “He’s got a record to run on. He’s got to work hard to make that experience is put into context and the benefit of the bully pulpit is that when you’re ready to drive a message you can use it like no other candidate can. We haven’t even seen the full argument yet. We’re seeing shadows.”
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