It’s been a tough couple of weeks for President Obama, one of those stretches where everything seems to go south at once. The economy is soft, his poll numbers are down, and Europe has the markets on edge; Romney is even beating him in the money race. What was once hailed as personal confidence — or condemned as arrogance — is long gone. Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.
In Wisconsin, the result was merely a bit of comic relief. Fearful of making a personal appearance in a losing cause, Obama couldn’t even bring himself to phone it in. Instead, he packed the power of the presidency into a 95-character tweet endorsing Tom Barrett’s challenge to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Barrett, a plainspoken former congressman, is far too nice to speak the truth: Thanks for nothing.
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Imagine getting an unbiased opinion regarding a Democrat from John Sununu. What a laugh!!
Do you deny any of the piece? He basically recited a list of missteps - or do you not recognize those as such? Love him or hate him, it's very hard to deny that his actions the past few weeks to not point to an administration that is reeling.
Why not just reprint a press release from the RNC? Oh wait, never mind. You just did.
Wow....the conformity of message from Republicans is amazing, one wonders has any one from the GOP had an original thought recently?
An unbiased opinion? By definition opinions are derived from bias.
Having a member of the Reich Wing contribute an article is absurd. Talk about overblowing every minor issue to his party's side. Oh and by the way the economy must be doing fine. I live in southern NH and the new outlet mall opened up in Merrimack last Wednesday. The traffic jam trying to go anywhere near the place was off the charts. Don't judge the economy by the DOW or Greek debt. Imagine the party that gave us George Bush has ideas on how to bring the economy back. I always hated this guy.
So having John "Thanks, Dad" Sununu weigh in from Cow Hampshire is supposed to justify my subscription?
According to the comments, all is just perfect with this failed president. Take off your blinders and see how bad Obama is. If he were a republican president, you'd vote him out with this record of failure. But since you only vote Democrat, you just can't recognize a failure in your own party.
Thank God this newspaper has one writer who is reporting on all of this. The rest of the Globe staff is blind to all of this, and has reported none of it. If one had to rely on the Globe for ALL of their news, most of the details reported here have only seen the light of day today. NEW PARAGRAPH: While the Globe can still worship at the feet of the president, the rest of the country is aghast. These security leaks are far worse then revealing the name of Valerie Plame. And it was STILL investigated, long after the leaker of her name was revealed to be someone who was NOT part of the Bush administration. The stonewalling of Eric Holder on Fast and Furious is Nixonian, and he will not survive until November. But save for Mr. Sununu, the Globe does not believe any of this is news. "move along folks, nothing to see here....."
I do so love watching opinion writers on politics try to keep up interest in a political race when no one is really interested. If you follow these guys Obama or Romney have won or lost this race numerous times before it ever really starts. By the way if you are one of the "innocence" out there it hasn't started yet, except for the guys trying to earn a living. Of course the zealots on both sides will be writing in their inane comments, my guy has got it, your guy is a loser, but then they don't know the first thing about politics nor have they ever been involved in a political campaign. While the pro's shape the parameters, look for the appropriate battlefield, the team rooting public babbles on. And John of course knowing that panic never sets in any political campaign until long after the dog days of August sits down at his typewriter and knocks out a quickie. Probably why he's sitting down at a typewriter.
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It's a bit difficult keeping up with Mr. Sununu's new twist on word definitions. He equates a series of comments reported by the press and then taken out of context by Republicans as panic. Let them say what they will since it is a transference of their own state of mind. It is Republicans who know they have taken a hit because of the actions of this President on student loans, immigration, and foreign policy as opposed to the childish uninformed offerings of Mr. Romney. Sununu is using Rovian tactics to cover a losing philosophy.
Hey Sununu, if you take the comments Obama made about the private sector in context, you will see that everything the President of the United States said that day is true. Our jobs numbers are weak mostly because of losses in the public sector and those losses are the fault of failed Republican policies from sea to shing sea. Unemployment has dropped in the private sector under Obama. Austerity doesn't work; not in a weak economy. I'm not sure who "punched the President in the face" but it sure wasn't this lame article.
This will pass for the President. But I'll tell you what wouldn't pass for Mr. Romney. If I was the President, I would have Romney OWNING September 2008, and wearing it around his neck like he was personally responsible for it. And if he claims he wasn't, show how some of his policies now, are the same or similar to those the the previous Republican administartion has that got us into the mess in the first place. I'll bet there are a lot of similarities, especially in his 59 points. And if he somehow is able to squirm out of this comparison, have him tell us what he would have done in October 2008, if he was President, to fix the September calamity. And then run TV ad after TV ad, associting Romney with 2008 and saying "Do you REALLY want to go back there again??" Make him own it!!!
...i got it.....show split screen adds with Romney on one side and 2 charts on the other side. One chart is the downward spiral of the stockmarket, and the other one is the downward spiral of people's 401ks and personal wealth. Maybe throw in picture of people like me crying when my retirement savings was cut in half, which forced me to have to work 5 more years that I wanted to. Maybe the by-line in that add.... "Do you want to add another 5 years to working carrer?" If not vote Obama and let him finish the cleanup?
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"he views the government as the critical source for economic activity in America."////////Sununu must have been in his condo on the dark side of the moon when the "private sector" and wall st. destroyed the entire world economy.
Too bad Mr. Sununu neglected to mention the leak to the New York Times about Barry the O's being the funster who enjoys being the nation's assassin-in-chief. Every previous president has enjoyed the cover of deniability or some other silly way of prohibiting disclosure of his (the president's) administrative authorization of a covert activity that may involve death for an enemy of he U.S. This Hawaiian native, a political hack by way of Chicago, sought to prove his macho by encouraging somebody in the White House to go public about his personal participation in selecting targets for what he considers his very own drone fleet.
Oh... pshaw ... just like the Boston Glob's "political intelligence' writer bleats a constant beat authorized by the White House, the Massachusetts State House corner office, and the Harvard Law School's once only-supposedly-Indian professor.
"Reich Wing"... as in Nazi Wing? This Oaktree42 slimeball has reached way below acceptable standards, but that's okay by the Boston Glob. He got caught in a traffic jam and he speaks about "overblowing every minor issue"... LOL... He forgets about the Demohacks who ran in their editorial pages all the stories about an Irish setter atop a car and a teenaged boy who allegedly bullied another teenaged boy. Talk about minor issues being overblow "to his party's side". One would think this blowhard's comment would be reported as abuse, but it isn't because it is not at a strength where waking up a Glob editor is worth while.
Mitt Romney didn't offer any significant support of Scott Walker prior to the Wisconsin recall either... only after Walker wins does the Mitt-ster start invoking Wisconsin -and to disastrous results, I might add("We don't need more policemen, firemen, teachers,(etc.)")... There's our man of the people... yep... And, no, Obama/Dems/Libs don't think that government is the "engine" of our economy... We're suffering from a lack of demand brought on largely by the Financial Sector's cratering of the world economy... in this situation, government can and should be the (pick one)"starter fluid/jumpstart" that gets the economy moving again... THEN we all get to focus on the deficit -agreed... focusing on deficit reduction in a stalled economy is inviting a death spiral and only 'good' if your aim is to eliminate government, the middle class and decent wages/living standards... The US government can borrow $$ practically free at this moment... there is no reason we shouldn't be taking this opportunity to put people to work by building and repairing long-neglected infrastructure...
Yeah, most of it... read my other comment...
Add to that Walker isn't exactly gushing with enthusiasm for Romney's candidacy.
You mean flat out lie about Romney? I mean, Obama seems to be doing enough of that already.
Panic my eye. It's just an election, and these issues are minor. If full-scale armed conflict were to break out between Israel and Iran that might be cause for panic, given its potential to escalate out of control. A large asteroid on collision course with a populated area is cause for panic. This kind of shrill, partisan drivel says more about you than it does about your topic, Mr. Sununu.