President Obama Fires The Starting Gun
With a tendentious, sneering speech in Cleveland this week, President Obama launched the fall campaign.The president who never stops campaigning even when he is denouncing the permanent campaign has only one way to actually signal to his dwindling troops that he is summoning them to a particularly important political battle.
When Barack Obama gets serious, he personalizes the attack and he raises the volume.So the president went to the shore of Lake Erie to attack GOP House Leader John Boehner, whom the president rightly fears is close to becoming the new House Speaker, and thus his principal rival for the next two years.Boehner is an enormous threat to Obama because if Obama can lose the House, he can lose the presidency.If Obama fails to rally his troops one time, the alleged magic is gone.If Boehner beats Obama, the Obama-Carter comparison grows more and more compelling.So all rhetorical barrels were leveled at Boehner, and when the president was finished…John Boehner didn’t have a scratch on him.
In fact the Democratic troops not only did not rally to the flag, they ran farther and faster from Obama.
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