Obama鈥檚 Flawed Re-election Strategy

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He is running on a platform which in many ways resembles his 2008 campaign. But,there a huge gap between Obama’s 2008 campaign promises and Obama’s presidential actions. The Huffington Post website recently referred to Obama’s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-economy-speech_b_851311.html">memento Presidency</a> as “soaring rhetoric” that comes with a “bitter aftertaste,” and that “his words turned to broken promises as soon as they passed his lips.” Americans are <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://video.foxnews.com/v/4670148/americans-losing-confidence-in-obama/">losing confidence</a> in this President causing a decline in his popularity. The “hope and change” theme which inspired so many voters in 2008 seems more like <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546470217381134.html">fear and spite</a>. Much of the President’s decline in popularity can be attributed to the broken campaign promises, the President’s reluctance to lead on key legislative promises, and the sloppy handling of media relations.</p> <p>Of all the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-08/opinion/navarrette.obama.promise_1_immigration-bill-immigration-reform-latino-support?_s=PM:OPINION">broken campaign promises</a> by Obama, the one that is likely to hurt him the most is the promise he made to Latinos. “What I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in 2008. </p> <p>On Tuesday, the President will travel to the United States border with Mexico to campaign for a series of community conversations about the need for immigration reform. In a speech in El Paso, Mr. Obama will urge Congress to act, though officials said he would not unveil legislation nor demand a specific timeline. Failing to unveil legislation or failing to use the bully pulpit to impose legislative deadlines in order to keep his campaign promises is nothing new for Obama. He did the same thing on his signature healthcare law that now faces <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-fights-save-healthcare-law-050822408.html">constitutional problems</a> in the US federal courts, which would not be an issue if there had been a public option as he promised during his campaign. He also broke a campaign promise by giving tax credits to the rich in the final months of 2010. The President’s re-election campaign is in many ways a replay of 2008. It is as though he deliberately kept those issues alive for his re-election campaign.</p> <p>Further, the White House can be embarrassingly amateurish in the way it deals with the media. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100086530/jay-carney-is-floundering-under-pressure-say-washington-insiders/">The Telegraph</a>, referring to the killing of Osama bin Laden, said; “This is a pivotal moment in Barack Obama’s presidency, a moment when the eyes of the world are locked on Washington. In the global battle for hearts and minds, it is essential that the leader of the free world exudes an air of calm authority at this time. Yet the White House’s handling of the media in the aftermath of Sunday’s events has been breathtakingly amateurish, planting seeds of doubt about the legality of the operation and about Osama bin Laden’s death that would not otherwise be there.” The President succeeded in insuring that the media did not <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1335615">spike the football</a> in celebration of the death of Osama bin Laden, but in the process of managing that message the White House definitely fumbled the ball. The world is left wondering how the White House could make such a media mess over the killing of the world’s most wanted terrorist.</p> <a class="continue" href="/web/20110511142634/http://technorati.com/politics/article/obamas-flawed-re-election-strategy/page-2/">Continued on the next page</a> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px;"> </div> <div id="likebuttonarea" style="margin:0 -10px; padding:10px; position:relative; background-color: #f6f6f6;"> <iframe src="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://technorati.com/politics/article/obamas-flawed-re-election-strategy/&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=600&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px; height:65px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 10px;"> </div> <div class="emphasis"> <a href="#comments">Read comments on this article, and add some feedback of your own</a> </div> <div class="pagination" id="bottom-paginator"> Page <strong>1</strong>   <a href="/web/20110511142634/http://technorati.com/politics/article/obamas-flawed-re-election-strategy/page-2/">2</a>   <a href="/web/20110511142634/http://technorati.com/politics/article/obamas-flawed-re-election-strategy/page-3/">3</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="round-rect"> <div class="inner"> <h2>About this article</h2> <div id="author-bio" class="span-10"> <div class="span-2"> <img alt="Profile image for douglaswwallace" width="60" height="60" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20110511142634im_/http://scm-l3.technorati.com/profile/5/douglaswwallace/douglaswwallace_medium.jpg?1305048967"/> </div> <div class="span-8 last"> <h3>Article Author: <a rel="nofollow" href="/web/20110511142634/http://technorati.com/people/douglaswwallace/">Doug Wallace</a></h3> <p>Douglas Wallace was born in Big Rock, TN. 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