Chris was right as he compared the Kennedy political machine with the Obama political operation.. [View All]

[WCGreen]

You should check out the last word. He is correct in pointing out that there are no real Obama Democrats. He hasn't taken hold of the party and molded it into his political base...

He ran an aloof campaign in 2008 that reached out to the young and disillusioned and by passed the traditional democratic power base of trial lawyers and Unions.

He was running as Obama and not as a democrat.

It's kind of like a replay of the McGovern election in 1972 only this time it worked because candidate Obama did not alienate those more traditional political power bases.

Believe me, I am not saying it is bad or "evil" or even anti-Obama, but his continual attempts to build a consensus across the aisle has left his base wondering if he has their back. Remember how negative the GOP was and how angry DU with president Obamas insistence of reaching across the aisle time and time again.

Chris was right about his cabinet not out there pushing his agenda whenever they can. His cabinet has never really embraced the political part of the ob.

It's almost as if president Obama doesn't realize that there is no political season any more only a constant battle for the agenda.

Who really has president Obama' back? Who is out there passionately pushing his agenda. For that matter, who can actually point to what is the Obama agenda.

He has big sweeping ideas that have gotten lost because he left far too much on the table from the start.

The presidents apolitical persona is a good thing, it means he is really trying to reach out to the whole country instead of parsing everything into a us vs them.

But the stark reality is that being apolitical tends to alienate people who are intensely political and that spells trouble for a man who has to appeal to the hyper political to get him reelected.

What is really saving his presidency is not his soaring rhetoric or his remaking of American foreign policy. No, what is saving his presidency is Romney, Bachmann, Perry and Hermann.

I am pretty sure that president Obama will win reelection but he won't enjoy any sort of mandate unless the country throws out the republican hold on congress. That, my friends, is not going to be easy given the fact that the democratic state infrastructure dropped the ball when it came to the 2010 election. And that was a direct result of the Obama White House abandoning any real political agenda.

In simple terms, the democrats out in the states don't look toward president Obama for political cover and so they owe no allegiance to the president.

And that, my friends, is the way I see the big picture as it stands right now.