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Question: Why does obama keep selling out the base?
Partial Answer: Becoz he doesn’t want to run in 2012 and he is purposefully pissing off the base to give him an out.
My prediction is this: the raging narcissio-path obama will not run in 2012. While his ego demanded the world’s biggest stage to strut and preen upon, the whole experience has not been emotionally rewarding enough … it hasn’t been as nourishing to his ego as he had expected … for him to want another 4 years of it. He is being questioned with increasing frequency … which he doesn’t like; he finds it offensive … and he’s not going to enjoy trying to defend his absolutely horrendous record on the campaign trail in 2012. So he is angling to cash in his favors to the plutocrats and on the celebrity-hood of becoming the country’s first black president. But he’s not going to want to make it transparent that he is going off to cash in on 4 years of selling out the country and he’s also likely sensitive to criticism that he hasn’t stuck at anything for very long: community activist, law school professor, state senator, u.s. senator, and now president.
He would much rather have an excuse than out and out quit and his excuse is going to be that his candidacy became untenable: I couldn’t get elected so I stepped aside. And he’ll keep pissing off the base until that happens. And it’s not like this is unprecedented behavior from him. He very cynically did damn near everything he could to hurt the democrats in the mid-term elections, calling out the base for being ungrateful, calling them retards through emanuel, expressing his disappointment in them … not to mention selling their asses out blatantly and repeatedly. He wanted a strengthened republican hand in congress and he got it … better to compromise with to get to where he wants to: pro-corporate, pro-wall street, pro-plutocracy legislation. The republican congress makes the kabuki less complicated than trying to arrange the pieces on the democratic side, essentially calling in liebermann, nelson, baucus, etc. from the sleaze bullpen to give him the resistance he needs to sell out the vast majority of the people in this country’s interest. Now he has the tea party-infused republicans to use as toehold to posture from as the reasonable and responsible one, which is convenient for him becoz he doesn’t want to be known as the duplicitous bastard that he is.
Why would he want to serve another 4 year term? He’s gotten everything that he wanted from the platform: he became president, the first black president against very large odds … reached the top … had us join him in a celebration of himself. But though the trip was fun, he doesn’t like it once he got there and it’s time to move on to something else. He’s a lot like palin … and most politicians … in those regards: running is the funnest part of it … basking in the adoration of the crowds, doing speeches … but they’ve got no real ambition to actually govern.
He has no personal reason to stay … he’s got no magnanimous reason to stay, that’s for sure; he never does. He certainly didn’t take the job to help people out or improve the country … he’s fucked over 99% of the country by hijacking their hope for his own vanity and wealth. He certainly realizes that what he is doing is very damaging to hundreds of millions of people, but he doesn’t care at all. Becoz obama is all about himself, he is only serving the plutocracy becoz he feels it is in HIS best interest to: to position himself best for future payouts. But he doesn’t have any allegiance to them beyond that. And I don’t think that he’s inclined to carry their water for 4 more years after this term.
No, rather than risk the embarrassment … the humiliation … of losing, the head pr man for the establishment will decline to run in 2012 and express his disappointment in us all and the partisanship in our government. Though he was elected on his promises of delivering substantial change and hardly anyone gives a fuck about bi-partisanship, he’ll deceitfully posture that he was elected to end partisanship. But, unfortunately, the rest of the government is not as noble and well-intentioned as he so he wasn’t able to accomplish that and, again, it was we and dc that let this fine man down. He will try to portray himself as a brave man that was willing to risk re-election in order to make the tough decisions that were needed to position ourselves to “win the future”.
So, in summary, he is looking for a reason to exit, and probably anxious to cash in on his favors to the plutocracy and the celebrity-hood of being this country’s first black president. It would be too transparent to serve the plutocrats so loyally for 4 years and voluntarily leave and cash out, so he’s going to keep selling us out until his support erodes to the point that his candidacy becomes untenable. Though he’s going to go through the motions of beginning his run for a 2nd term, he will purposely piss of his base until it’s obvious that he doesn’t have enough support to win, and then bow out for the better of the party … which would be for the best, not that he really gives a shit … and blame the economic mess that he walked into and partisanship for his loss of support.
These sellouts to the republicans that piss off the liberal base not only serve his interests in taking care of the entities that will line his pockets in the future, they also lay the groundwork for his walking away in 2012.
Z
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I believe he’s unelectable.
I wasn’t voting for him anyway but if he stays the course of his presidency as is he’s toast . . . on domestic issues alone, never mind budgets for wars enabling the UniParty gutting of of our social safety nets.
The only question I have is who will make the decision.
Will it be the party who finally wakes up to see he’s unelectable, or will Obama himself just step down?
Likely it don’t or won’t matter, this could have all been scripted for a GOP win long ago, it’s that fucking crazy.
Oh, one other question/posit. Will the Dims run losers on purpose, or will they actually try to win?
It don’t matter much, as I see it there’s only a matter of slight degree and immediacy involved in the fucking we the people are getting from the corporate fascist oligarchy Uniparty.
Interesting read n no one else has offered this posit.
Rcc’d, if just for chat sake alone.
Ego got O there and pride will keep O wanting it.
Interesting take – and not implausible. Being something for 8 years would be the longest time he’s ever been anything. The only reason I might think that he might still run is that one-term presidents are considered failures. Otherwise – yes – I can’t figure out why he wanted to be President (e.g. at least Clinton seemed to really believe the third-way stuff and was tough with Republicans every once in a while).
There’s a way to test this one-term theory: by someone decent challenging him in the primary and him not altering his behavior at all. Then we’ll know he’s done.
I am reminded of how some wise court jesters figured this out immediately upon his election (kudos to them, though it would have been nice of them to alert us earlier):
“International Con Man Barack Obama Leaves U.S. With $85 Million In Campaign Fundraising”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/international-con-man-barack-obama-leaves-us-with,2600/
He’s extremely smart and I can’t see why the hell he’d want to see his policies play out 4 more years … and they are going to be tough years partly becoz of those policies. And that’s another reason why he postures as the uniter … the reasonable man in the middle … becoz that way it muddies the blame for these policies. He gets to posture as a mediator and a victim of the political environment.
He’s too smart to not realize that the economy is going to get worse … his policies damn near assure it. And there’s no way that he can’t see the gaping hole in his clintonian re-election strategy: a strong economy. And does he think he can get away with selling our asses out for four MORE years? For fuck’s sake, at the rate he’s fucking us over, we’re going to have some social unrest within the next few years. There’s going to be a lot of people out in the streets.
He’s got everything that he needs and he just tacked another order of magnitude on to his future wealth for his 4 years of dutiful service to the plutocracy. Why would he want to stay?
Z
I hope you are correct – but I believe you are not, because if he wants out what reason – besides vindictiveness – would there be to force Hillary to say she was not in for 2012 more than 2 years before the election? Or indeed to chase Dean and every other name into the “I’m not running in 2012″ camp?
Romney can run again and again, likewise McCain – but Obama seems to be making certain we get a “new face” to replace him via his actions during his term.
And he has played the race card well – no Dem wants to fight the racist label – and that is the label that it has been made clear that will be attached to any primary opponent.
I just do not see the GOP satisfied with what Obama will deliver in the first 4 years – they will want another 4 years that includes the complete tear down of every 1930′s, 1960′s and even Nixon social/environmental program – and only Obama can deliver.
So while I wish you are correct – my read of the con-man is that he is not leaving the stage until the end of his 2nd term.
If I’m right, I’d imagine that he’ll begin venting very soon about his unreasonable and ungrateful base again.
Narcissiopaths like obama love their emotional rewards. If he does end up running again and winning, he’s very short-sighted. The chase and the thrill of victory won’t be nearly as sweet as it was the first time … he won’t be the underdog any more and he’ll now have to defend his horrendous presidency … and his reward will be 4 years of living up to his failed policies. And there won’t be any way to spin them as positive … the reality will be too harsh to pretty up. All he’ll be able to do is blame it on the economic carnage he inherited … but that excuse won’t hold into his next term … and the political environment (that he cynically played a very large part in creating). Dangling that amorphous carrot “winning the future” in front of us ain’t gonna work for very long. He’ll become a joke, which he deserves, and he’ll damage his celebrity appeal, which I’d imagine he values very highly.
Z