52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn't deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll.
Don't worry though, Chris Dodd assures us that Obama will be easily reelected.
At least one retiring lawmaker is confident Obama will sail to reelection, with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) predicting Monday the president would win "overwhelmingly" in 2012.
A few months ago, I might have hedged my bets on that proposition, but the White House's doubling-down in the wake of Scott Brown's election and the massing dark clouds on the political horizon suggest to me that Obama is something I've seen countless times--an objectively smart guy blinded by his own personal character flaws (Yes, I have been among them...).
When things go wrong, everybody has a binary choice--acknowledge that its tanking and contemplate a new direction, or delude yourself that you can still pull it out with more, bigger, faster.
Making the right choice is called 'good judgment'.
The old joke is that you get good judgment by exercising bad judgment. Most people call that 'experience'. Barack Obama doesn't have any, and doesn't appear to have the maturity to learn from the bad judgment he's exercised.
He's toast.
UPDATE: So are Democrat incumbents...
Only a third of US voters think their Congress members have earned the right to get sent back next year -- a record-low number, a poll released yesterday shows.Thirty-four percent of voters queried think members of the House and the Senate ought to be re-elected -- while an astonishing 63 percent were in favor of throwing the bums out, the new CNN poll showed.
That's the worst performance for Congress in the history of the network's polling -- the latest red flag for the floundering Democratic leadership as it heads into an anti-incumbent voter wave just eight months before the midterm elections.
