Obama needs a 9/11 event to survive politically...

Kris · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

Hmm, approval ratings going down? Perhaps now would be an opportune moment for Al-CIAda and those pesky Muslim extremists to rear their ugly head again in good ol' Amerika.

Wasn't it Bush's approval ratings that skyrocketed from rockbottom after 9/11?

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Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Why do you think he is jumping up and down on BP?
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ThoughtContro... · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Aug 2008 Karma :

He isn't, you're believing the illusion again. The BP spill serves the Carbon Credit/Tax agenda. The sheep wont notice the difference between Global Warming, "Climate Change" or massive oil spill, it's all to help the environment.

Kris, I thought about posting this when I read it, but it's usually dismissed so not worth bothering.

Considering the "recovery" is an illusion at the cliff edge of economic collapse, the Wall St/London Mafia do need a massive war to keep the economic machine going and the serfs noses to the grindstone. We are likely another "October Surprise", and this one will ironically involve Iran too, this time as the scapegoat to precipitate invasion.

A mate of mine says if they go in he's going back to fight, "In my country we have 8 million partizan", tho funnily enough he recently got his UK passport and he doesnt like Ahmadinejad either.

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Redoko · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Karma :

I've done A2 Politics, you can't name me a recent President (last century) that wasn't hated for some reason.

Literally all Presidents leave office hated. American Presidents can only serve 2 terms.

Bush's opinion ratings soared to around 80-90%. But then plummeted to events such as Katrina.

JFK doesn't count because he was killed before the end of his term.

It's tradition embedded into society that past politicians are looked at more kindly as time passes on.

I do agree with your statement about a President needing to combat a significant event in order to be remembered. However Presidents put forward suggestions for Supreme Court Judges, this is seen as a higher honour than combating an event of a large scale. Supreme Court Judges have no life time, they are seen effectively as carrying on the Presidents agenda. Problem is, a Supreme Court might not (they're 9 of them) retire or die for, longest period was 11 years recently.

Obama came in portrayed by the media as some kind of saviour.

If you actually look at the voting statistics he didn't win by a landslide.

If I was Obama I would be more worried about becoming a 1 term President than a significant event.
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^^ You're right - it is annoying.

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pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

Obama does seem to be latching onto any and everything in order to seem statesmanly and erm, just manly. The latest thing being the release of Al Megrahi.

Lots of Scots up in arms about Cameron actively critisizing the release when perhaps he should've given no comment and just pointed out it was a devolved issue and if you disagreed, you'd need to talk to an MSP.

That and the BP thing... Obviously the US press have a lot to do with it, the president reacts to what ever is popular and the rpess react to whatever they think will increase viewers/sales. Is the Britain (probably actually just England just now) so popular in the US that having a decent shmooze with Cameron is going to increase support for Obama?

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