From CNN:
Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Obama’s recent travel is an indication that the new president is already running for reelection.
“He’s going to those places for a reason,” Barbour said on CNN’s State of the Union. “I mean David Axelrod, who’s his campaign consultant/manager/guru really is one of the brightest, most capable people in American politics. And so this is what we’ve become accustomed to, the perpetual campaign.”
In the last few weeks, the president has visited Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Colorado — all states that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but flipped to the Democrat’s side in 2008. Obama has also visited Arizona — the home state of his former rival, Sen. John McCain, and a state he’d like to turn blue in 2012.
The White House has said the president specifically visited those states because they are among the hardest hit by the nations sputtering economy and home foreclosure crisis.
Obama isn’t very good at being President, but he is superlative out on the stump, reading from a teleprompter…so, his handlers have decided that the best thing Obama can do is go read speeches. We can expect Obama to pretty much do nothing else between now and November of 2012. What he would do after that, if he’s re-elected, Lord only knows.
As for the staff lying – it is an obvious lie to say that Obama is only visiting States which are hard hit by the mortgage meltdown…California (Obama by 24 points), Alabama (McCain by 22 points), Hawaii (Obama by 45 points), Kansas (McCain by 16 points), Illinois (Obama by 25 points), Alaska (McCain by 22 points), Idaho (McCain by 25 points) and Oregon (Obama by 16 points) have also been very hard hit by the mortgage meltdown – the commonality between these not-visited States is that if Obama loses any that he won in 2012 then he’s toast, while its next to impossible for him to win those States he lost…so, why bother going?
Face it, Obama and his minders only care about you if you are part of the 2012 re-election campaign. And thus Obama’s staff has lied…it isn’t the first time, and we can almost rely upon it that its not even in the last 100 times it’ll happen.
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