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Obama’s
Achilles: Broken Promise of Bipartisanship May Sink Reelection
Remember “A Chicken in Every Pot” or
“No New Taxes”? This president came in vowing a new day of cooperation in
Washington. Why that pledge could cost him the election.
In the last 100 years, every U.S. president who lost his bid
for a second term did so because he abandoned his principal promise to the
American people. If Republicans can persuade the public that Barack Obama
similarly shattered the pledge at the very core of his presidency, they will
succeed in denying him the new lease on the White House he insists he deserves.
President
Barack Obama greets supporters as he arrives at McCarran International Airport
in Las Vegas, Wednesday, March 21, 2012., Isaac Brekken / AP Photo
Four elected chief executives in the past century failed in
their reelection campaigns—and each of them flopped by landslide margins. For
William Howard Taft in 1912, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Jimmy Carter in 1980, and
George H.W. Bush in 1992, broken promises doomed their chances for another
four-year term.
Taft, Theodore Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor, based his
first presidential campaign on guarantees that he would continue the popular
policies of his ebullient predecessor, but voters in 1912 knew they’d been
betrayed because TR himself came out of retirement to tell them so! Roosevelt
not only challenged Taft for re-nomination but ultimately conducted his
third-party “Bull Moose” campaign, handing victory to Democrat Woodrow Wilson
and pushing the incumbent to a paltry 23 percent of the popular vote.
In 1928, Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ran as the
prosperity candidate, deploying the sonorous slogan, “A Chicken in Every Pot, a
Car in Every Garage.” The Great Depression smashed his optimistic assurances
and helped FDR carry 42 of 48 states.
After the sleaze and polarization of the Nixon administration,
a nation weary of Watergate turned to a youthful, deeply religious Georgia
governor who titled his campaign autobiography Why Not the Best? As a
former officer on nuclear submarines, Jimmy Carter ran as a sure-handed
technocrat who offered the explicit promise of “a government as good as its
people.” After three years of economic meltdown, a seemingly endless hostage
crisis, and self-defeating talk of malaise, that cheerful vow sounded laughably
quaint, and Carter fell by 8.4 million votes to Ronald Reagan.
Finally, in 1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush escaped the
nagging “wimp” factor and electrified the GOP convention with an unequivocal
declaration meant to evoke the steely resolve of Clint Eastwood. “Read my
lips,” he snarled. “No new taxes!” Violating that well-publicized oath with a
sharp increase in marginal tax rates literally wrecked his presidency:
producing a primary challenge from Pat Buchanan, a formidable third-party
candidacy by Ross Perot, and a lopsided November win for the young governor of
Arkansas, Bill Clinton.
If Republicans want to see history repeat itself in 2012,
with a once-popular incumbent turned out of office by a deeply disillusioned
electorate, they must persuade the public that Barack Obama has continued the
big-loser pattern of broken promises. That means reminding voters
of the most important theme associated with his rise to power: the pledge to
unify the nation and put aside petty, partisan differences. Whatever happens
with the unemployment rate or gas prices, the president’s failure to live up to
these assurances remains both painful and apparent.
In the speech that made him a national figure overnight,
Illinois Senator Barack Obama gave the keynote address to the Democratic
National Convention in 2004. “Alongside our famous individualism, there’s
another ingredient in the American saga. A belief that we are connected as one
people,” he intoned. “The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red
states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.
But I’ve got news for them…. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance
to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”
In his Inaugural Address four-and-a-half years later, the
newly elected president sounded strikingly similar themes. “On this day, we
gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict
and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances
and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too
long have strangled our politics.”
Can even the most devoted Obama admirer plausibly claim that
this new day of harmony and cooperation actually dawned in Washington?
Low approval ratings for all federal officials suggest that
Americans recognize that the “conflict and discord” have become more bitter
than ever before and that the president, despite his soaring rhetoric, plays a
prominent part in the squabbling. He may attempt to blame conservatives
exclusively for the small-minded gamesmanship, but he’s compiled his own long
record of below-the-belt, straw-man attacks, sliming his opponents as greedy and corrupt, claiming that they place
plutocrats and corporate power above the public welfare.
Instead of the fresh era of “unity of purpose,” President
Obama must acknowledge that his signature legislative achievement, health-care
reform, passed both houses of Congress without
a single Republican vote,
and led elected officials in the majority of states to challenge its
constitutionality before the Supreme Court.
Yet even more tragically than his crushed hope of overcoming
partisanship, Barack Obama has disappointed the public in the historic mission
of transcending racial divisions. It may have been unrealistic to expect that
election of the first black president would heal four centuries of racial
strife, but that didn’t stop millions from rallying to banners of hope and to
the intoxicating chant of “Yes We Can!”
Can even the most devoted Obama admirer plausibly claim that
a new day of harmony and cooperation actually dawned in Washington?
In that context, no matter how eloquently the president speaks about the
Trayvon Martin tragedy,
the incident still serves to undermine the notion of his transformative
leadership: racism remains a powerful, even paralyzing, presence in American
life. To an embarrassing extent, Obama himself remains a racially divisive
rather than unifying figure. According to March tracking polls by the Gallup
organization, 85 percent of blacks approve of Obama’s job performance, but only
39 percent of whites do—an unprecedented difference of more than two-to-one.
When challenging Barack Obama’s claim on a second term, the
Republicans should remind the American people why we entrusted him with the
presidency in the first place. Beyond any specific expectations about jobs,
taxes, and health care, the public welcomed the prospect of an end to the
bickering with a new politics of common-sense reform.
The GOP candidate can expose the president’s spoiled promise
by renewing the same pledge more credibly, and demonstrating in the campaign
itself the coalition-building, pragmatism, and bipartisanship the people
expected from the incumbent. Reinvigorated hope for unity and cooperation
provides the best chance to highlight this president’s most fatal failure and
to add his name to the melancholy list of discredited one-termers who broke
faith with the American people.
HE IS THE BANKSTER-BOUGHT PRESIDENT FOR THE 1%... HIS PARTY
BASE IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “THE RACE” . FOR LA RAZA OBAMA HAS
SABOTAGED OUR BORDER SECURITY, SABOTAGED E-VERIFY TO ASSURE ILLEGALS OF OUR
JOBS, SUED 4 AMERICAN STATES ON BEHALF OF LA RAZA, SABOTAGED VOTING I.D.
REQUIREMENTS TO EASE ILLEGALS INTO OUR VOTING BOOTHS!
OBAMA HAS PROMISED HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTERS NO PRISON TIME,
AND HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE AMNESTY or at least continued NON-ENFORCEMENT!
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