Obama is increasingly portrayed as a weak leader, and the bleak economic news is not brightening his outlook for 2012. In his bi-weekly column, John Hughes, former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, reminds us:
He campaigned on a platform to change Washington, but as he himself admitted in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, the atmosphere there is worse since he became president.
Hughes goes on to note: There is already some whispering. The name “Hillary Clinton” crosses lips.
Further, Hughes boldly goes where to my knowledge no mainstream pundit has ever previously gone to report the actual results of the Democratic primary in 2008:
In the curious way we elect our presidents – so bemusing to many foreigners – Hillary Rodham Clinton got more of the people’s vote than Obama in the primaries: 18,223,120 to his 18,011,877. Neither candidate received enough delegates from state primary races and caucuses to reach a majority at the party convention, but “superdelegate” votes pushed Obama over the top.
Remember the superdelegates? Those were the Democratic party leaders who with practically one voice declared in ’08 that racism was taboo, but the sexist trashing of Hillary Clinton by both left and right-wing extremists was acceptable. Don’t take my word for it, watch then DNC Chair Howard Dean apologize on CSPAN for the sexism after it was too late to make a difference.
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