HE DID IT


PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA
44th President of the United States of America

Day of Reckoning 1: Why Obama Could Still Lose

Obama could still lose this election, and if he does, it will be because of one single fact: naïveté. It seems that, contrary to what many have said this time around, Obama fell prey to the same type of complacency that has compromised Democratic candidates in the past two presidential elections. Both Gore, in 2000, and Kerry, in 2004, lost because of an incredible naïveté that assumed that the American electorate was fundamentally intelligent, and that it could sort out, for itself, the lies from the facts, and therefore carry the Democrats to victory without them needing to go negative and push harder in order to try and ensure victory beyond all doubt. In both cases, they were DEAD WRONG, and THEY LOST. Read more

Obama Won Third Debate, But Failed (or Chose Not?) to Go for the Jugular

While all post-debate snap polls and focus group surveys taken right after the Wednesday night debate gave Barack Obama an overwhelming win over his presidential rival John McCain (in my opinion more on style than sheer will to win and force the issue), there are a few areas of the debate in which the Democratic candidate could have crushed John McCain, but failed to do so. I saw three great openings which Barack Obama failed to take advantage of during the debate. Here are some of the few answers or retorts that Obama could have used to crush John McCain once and for all: Read more

Here Comes The McCain/Palin Kitchen Sink: Obama Must Duck, This Way.

Here we go again, with McCain planning a last-ditch effort, a sort of 29-day kitchen-sink blitz, aimed at unseating Barack Obama before the crucial November 4 vote. Various news reports, including the McCain campaign itself on various talk shows this Sunday, have all pointed to a new kitchen-sink strategy aimed at emphasizing Barack Obama’s past associations (Ayers, Wright, Rezko, etc.) with a view to questioning both his judgment and patriotism. Read more

The Eight Things that Will Win (or Lose) This Election for Barack Obama

Surprise! John McCain is surging in the polls, and pundits as well as stunned Obama supporters such as myself are asking themselves how and why. Yet, a cold critical look at how this thing has been going since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination from the hands of Hillary Clinton in June can help to explain the hows and the whys of the McCain surge. These explanations have more to do with what the Obama campaign failed to do as opposed to what John McCain actually did. A number of mistakes are now apparent in the Obama campaign strategy which are threatening to lose him an election that was his to win… or lose.

In a context that was highly favorable to an easy Democratic victory in November, Barack Obama seems to be struggling. While many factors, such as race, could indeed contribute to this unexpected struggle, I believe that the negative impact of race on the perception of Barack Obama by white America cannot, alone, account for what is happening to the Obama campaign. If anything, I would argue that the answers to Obama’s inability to close the deal against John McCain come from mistakes committed in the very strategic choices made by the Obama campaign itself. Among these mistakes, one notes the following eight things: Read more

Two things Hillary Clinton could say and do at the Convention (and thereafter) to get her supporters to back Barack Obama

There is no doubt Hillary Clinton has been highly ambiguous in her support (or lack thereof) of Barack Obama since finally giving up her bid for the presidency of the United States of America back in June (Well, she did not actually give it up; she suspended her campaign). Because of this ambiguity, which never translated into a true acknowledgment of defeat, nor into a true expression of closure, Hillary Clinton has, directly or indirectly, contributed to the fueling of the rampant speculations that have presented the Democratic Party as highly divided going into the August 25 Convention in Denver. Read more

Keys to Absolute Victory: Obama Now Needs to Launch a “State of the Race” Ad Blitz to Blunt Hillary Clinton

With the nomination virtually his, the last thing Barack Obama needs now is concede any type of ground to Hillary Clinton. The mistake, at this point, which Obama seems to already be committing, is to basically cede states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico, where Hillary Clinton is expected to win by wide margins according to polls (The remaining primaries are scheduled as so: West Virginia (05/13), Oregon (05/20), Kentucky (05/20), Puerto Rico (06/01), Montana (06/03), and South Dakota (06/03)). Read more

The Texas and Ohio Expectations Game: What the Obama Campaign Must Do to Ensure a Win-Win Paradigm Come Tuesday

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have been playing the expectations game ahead of the crucial Ohio and Texas primaries on Super Tuesday #2. These primaries have universally been recognized as Hillary Clinton’s last stand and her only chance of freezing Barack Obama cold on his tracks. Read more

Michelle Obama Must Avoid Taking Position on Potentially Controversial Issues

Watching Michelle Obama taking position in the past few days on the controversy over Barack Obama’s “Hussein” middle name, I got a small hunch. And the hunch said: Michelle Obama must avoid taking position on potentially controversial issues. Read more

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