Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Friday, June 24, 2011 1:08:53 PM
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Between the economy and Afghanistan Obama's doing most of the work for us.
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On Wednesday a clueless, nervous Ben Bernanke spoke at a televised news conference about the miserable state of the US economy and lowered his forecast of a recovery. And later that day an uptight Obama addressed the situation in Afghanistan and his plan to withdraw our surge forces and eventually end the war*. Obama is losing his battle to end the Great Recession; and he's nowhere near to defeating the Taliban. The two issues Obama believed would make him a hero to voters in 2012 and win him reelection will kill him on Election Day: fixing the economy with stimulus spending and help from Bernanke's unprecedented surge in the money supply; and the consequences of prematurely withdrawing our 30,000 surge troops from Afghanistan which will likely reverse the fragile, hard fought gains achieved there this past year.
*The speech was one day short of the first anniversary of Obama firing Stanley McChrystal whose surge plans for Afghanistan were greatly diminished with Obama giving him 50,000 troops less of the 80,000 he originally requested to effectively crush the Taliban.
Indeed, the economy's in a quagmire of unemployment, falling home prices and inflation; and the number of troops in Afghanistan is unequal to the mission of stabilizing the country and winning the hearts and minds of its people and government-the latter of which Obama has alienated pushing it into the arms of Iran (see). Obama's claim that he's made real progress on both fronts fall on deaf ears: stagflation in the economy with soaring deficits and debt; stagnation and stalemate with the Taliban on the battlefield-who've suffered setbacks in the South but keep their strongholds in the East and North and are confident of ultimate success based on Obama's non-commitment to victory and timetable for withdrawal.
Most Americans feel they are worse off today than on the ill-starred day Obama took office; and most want our troops home and an end to the Afghan war, but oppose the Taliban returning to power-for they were complicit with al Qaida in 9/11 (giving them a base for anti-US operations) and could become a new security threat seeking revenge for their overthrow and for thousands of jihadi deaths. Remember the words of George W. Bush, "We fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here in the streets of our cities." We retreat they advance once again massively attacking the homeland. In a word, by 2012 Obama's handling of the economy and the war in Afghanistan will completely destroy public confidence in his leadership and seal his defeat causing a Republican sweep of the Presidency and Senate with more bodies in the House of Representatives.
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