Few new Jobs Means Obama Loses in 2012

In the real world electoral trenches Obama is defeated in 2012 due to the lack of jobs, as long as the Republicans don't dominate a total nut case like Palin or a southern Redneck like Huckabee. Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Virginia etc. were all states that elected Obama for one reason: to create jobs. None of these states will vote for Obama in 2012 if there are no new jobs to speak of, as long as the Republicans nominate someone who sounds sensible to desperate job-seekers, like Pawlenty from Minnesota or Romney from Massachusetts, as seems likely. Obama is toast as long as the Republicans don't nominate a complete looney bird.

And I am sorry, but regardless of how much money Obama rakes in after he loses in 2012, he still goes down in history as a one-term President, which is politically a failure regardless of anything else.

Jimmy Carter lost his re-election for basic economics reasons also; for him it was at least as much due to inflation as it was due to unemployment.

Unlike Carter who was swept away by forces beyond his control, with Obama being defeated in 2012 serves him right, because he alone decided that the banksters and the rich people in general were far more important than the tens of millions needing decent incomes from jobs.

It was disturbing when Obama started blaming black poverty on black people not able to maintain families and so forth. It became devastating when Obama started blaming white poverty on white people deciding they need a job because they can't make their own nicely profitable business out of thin air. It seems that in Obama's twisted, right-wing mind, you don't absolutely have to have a job, because you should be able to automatically generate enough income from your own business for you and your family to live on. It's your fault and your problem if you can't.

But as anyone knows who knows anything about business, and/or anything about the current state of the economy, Obama's real views (which he dares not spell out in full in public) are totally unrealistic and are utter garbage. So good riddance to Obama in advance; I'm tuning him out until his 2012 concession speech.

I don't have a clue why the author was taken in by the theatrics of the 1-day mini "summit"; why he states that Obama is open to real jobs programs. There were several reports coming from "well-placed Obama insiders" last week indicating that in January Obama plans to announce deficit reduction will, beginning in 2010, be far more important than any jobs programs. In Obama World, there are going to be a lot of dead people instead of employed people. Obama is literally killing off some of his own would-be voters.

As for progressives, if they don't realize they need to unite behind a new party now, I suppose they never will, so the US will be permanently a very right wing country. As with all permanent right wing countries of history, this means nothing but misery, death and destruction for increasing millions.

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