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Pundits Urge President Obama To Back President Obama's Proposals
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Pundits Urge President Obama To Back President Obama's Proposals

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President Obama would have this election in the bag, according to a number of leading columnists, if only he would act more like President Obama.

A number of pundits are turning up the volume on demands that the White House offer a jobs plan based on new infrastructure spending, a long-term deficit plan that includes taxes and entitlement cuts and a market-based health care plan, among other requests. Obama will have a hard time taking their advice, however, given that he’s already proposed those very ideas.

In Friday’s Washington Post, Jonathan Rauch penned an op-ed recommending “A plan that offers Obama a fighting chance.” It called on the president to give a speech outlining a new bill that would include “long-term fiscal retrenchment,” ideally a combination of new taxes and entitlement cuts along the lines of the Bowles-Simpson plan, “short-term economic stimulus” and an extension of the debt ceiling without any further conditions. Never mind that the Republicans won’t pass it, Rauch argued, the key is that it will offer up a clear contrast:

Setting forth a boldly enunciated, easily graspable program puts Obama in a stronger position to criticize Romney’s plan as dangerously contractionary. Instead of going for Romney’s capillaries (his years-old record as governor; his even-older record at Bain Capital), Obama could go for the jugular by drawing a contrast that should be at the campaign’s core: The Republicans’ mistimed, precipitous austerity threatens to bring on another recession.
Sounds great, except as the Post’s own Ezra Klein noted, the president is already running that campaign.

Couldn't help but grin at this article. IMO, this problem (of the centrists being in permanent delusion that the center-most candidate possible is actually "leftist" or demands something different than they do) is very widespread.

The epicenter is in the USA, of course, but it starkly reminded me of the recent election here in Croatia. Here, the ruling nationalist-right party HDZ that had been in power 17 out of 20 years destroyed Croatia. Its founder and first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, collaborated with the invading Serbian army during the war, supplied it, and turned over the city defending the front; thousands of defenders and civilians were massacred. In later years, HDZ installed its puppets in all major Croatian companies, devastating the economy and stealing tens of billions of €, caused international isolation, and instituted many forms of corruption. The ex-prime minister Ivo Sanader of HDZ is currently on trial for this, along with half of his cabinet.

And you know what the sentiment was during the last elections here?

"They're all the same."

It pains me to see USA doing the same.

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