The President's daily message should be about jobs. "This is what we are doing today to help employment." "Here's an example of how our stimulus package saved or created jobs." "Reducing taxes for the wealthy won't create jobs; to the contrary it will have the following deleterious affects on the economy--
At the moment, there's confusion about the agenda for the "lame duck" session of Congress. Obama should gather Congressional leaders and say: "My number one priority is creating jobs. Here are the items I want you to work one in order to create jobs."
Every day that passes without clear direction from President Obama contributes to the impression that he's lost his mojo. That the self-confidence and seeming clarity of purpose of his campaign has disappeared. That he's floundering, buffeted by a series of powerful political winds. That his decisions are guided by arcane political calculations rather than reference to a moral compass.
As a consequence, the punditocracy has turned against Obama. First, we saw Op-eds predicting Dems were headed for disaster in the mid-term elections. Next came opinion pieces analyzing what went wrong with the Democratic national campaign -- most blaming the White House. Now we're seeing columns suggesting that the Democratic base is angry with Obama. Next will be pseudo-psychoanalytic Op-eds suggesting that the President has a character deficiency that impairs his leadership. How many weeks will pass before pundits prophesy a Democratic insurgency that will run candidates, such as Mayor Bloomberg or Secretary Clinton, against Obama in 2012?
Obama's situation isn't necessarily terminal. He can remedy it by finding his mojo. But he can't delay.
Clearly Republicans smell blood. Like a pack of wolves, GOP operatives are circling the White House, lashing out at the Obama Administration, trying to sink their long teeth into the President and bring him down.
The only way for Barack Obama to avoid what, at the moment, seems like a dreadful season of bloodletting is for him to begin acting like the leader all of us believed him to be when we voted for him in 2008.
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