Is Obama finished?

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

News cycle. President Obama was right about the Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero (the First Amendment allows no other interpretation because it has no exceptions for popular judgment of other people's religion) even if his statement in support of the Islamic Cultural Center is unpopular. Dwight Eisenhower was right about Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation of Little Rock schools even if such helped him not in the least.

Once Americans see what the doctrinaire GOP has to offer they will see things differently. Because it has no means of bring back the Dubya-era boom in real estate and crooked behavior by lenders and related parties, it too has no clue on how to get prosperity for more than about 5% of the people -- and that by $crewing the rest of us badly.  

Why don't you believe in polls? News cycle? It must be a very long news cycle, lasting almost 2 years, considering he's dropped ~25 points in the polls since he began his term.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

I'm still rather optimistic.

A. It's still 2010, we've got two more years. Let's chill.

B. The Republicans are going to have to pick one hell of a candidate to run in 2012, someone that isn't Palin, Huckabee, Romney, Jindal, or Gingrich. Someone fresh and new and isn't so much of a Hardcore right-wing nutjob, and Ive yet to really see someone.

C. Obama ran a great campaign in 2008 and will probably do so again in 2012 with the same people he surrounded himself in 2008. Also, going back to Republicans picking a good candidate, they cant run their platform on scare tactics and shameless attacks about Obama's personal life, which doesn't seem possible with the way they are acting currently. It needs to be about current events, the economy, and what people are really looking for for answers.

A. Well you better hope the unemployment rate drops at least 2% (if not more) within the next 2 years.

B. No idea why liberals on this forum underestimate (or is that misunderestimate? lol) Mitt Romney. He's a strong, viable candidate, and the best option out there. He's got my vote.

C. Obama in 2008 had a message of hope and change, he had no other substantial record to run on. Being the first black president, while it shouldn't have mattered, made a difference too. Add to the fact that 2008 was a vote against the GOP and NOT a vote for the liberal agenda. It was a vote against McCain more than it was a vote for Obama.

That being said, Obama can't run on any of the above in 2012. He can't use silly abstractions like hope and change. He now has a pretty dismal (reference: current approval polls for the nation and on specific policies) record. And if unemployment and the economy is still pretty much stagnant, he will have no chance no matter who the GOP nominates.

It's amazing. The Democrats should have been able to dominate for at least a decade after coming off of what Bush seemingly did to the country (highly under rated president, but that's neither here nor there). Yet they're facing crushing defeats in November and a chance of losing the WH in 2012. If someone predicted that in 2008, we would have labeled them crazy. The fact that the GOP hasn't won voters over on their own is a concern, but the liberals should be worried about how badly they handled the last 2-4 years.