RNC Chair: Obama "is not real anymore"

(CBS News) Four years after the nation enthusiastically embraced his presidency, President Obama's brand is broken, according to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

"I think Barack Obama's not real anymore to the American people," Priebus said on CBS' "Face the Nation" from the site of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. "At the top of the [Democratic] ticket is a man who sold us a bill of goods and delivered on very little."

Voters, he added, are "starving for... real authentic people that make a promise and keep a promise."

As the Republican convention gets underway this week, Priebus and the GOP are tasked with convincing voters that Mitt Romney is the candidate they are looking for. The focus of the week, Priebus said, will be "telling the Mitt Romney story."

Former RNC chairman and ex-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour added that Democrats "want to change the subject to anything but Obama's record."

Barbour told host Bob Schieffer that voters recognize Mr. Obama should have been able to work more effectively with Republicans in Congress, and that he is to blame for a lack of cooperation.

"The American people want to know: why don't we have a Bill Clinton? Why don't we have a Ronald Reagan that will go to the other side and get things done rather than make everything political, everything somebody else's fault? It can be done because we've seen it done by two presidents," Barbour said.

"You had a president who was willing to lead and work with the other side," Barbour said of Reagan. "Bill Clinton was the same way... He didn't whine and complain and blame everybody else."

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Also on the program, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., added that voters will focus on the economy and not be swayed by other, divisive issues that have taken the spotlight in recent weeks, such as abortion, due to Republican Rep. Todd Akin's controversial remarks on rape.

"All these distractions, they look at as distractions," Blackburn said. "They're saying, how do we get this country back to work? Tell me what your plan is."

Furthermore, she added that Republicans have gone out of their way to denounce Akin's remarks to try to put the matter to rest. "When somebody commits a 'Biden-ism,' like Akin did - his remarks were indefensible... we do speak out about it," Blackburn said.

[Thinkbeforeyouwrite]

One of the requirements to be a national party chair is to be as swarmy as possible. Reince and, yes even Axlerod, seem to be that way. The last RNC head has lost much of it since he left the post and seems almost normal. Why can't these heads of parties come across to the voter as a regular human being?

[divebar]

"Obama is not real anymore"

Hello?!? "anymore" ? President Speech-a-lot wasn't real from the beginning.

[HemiHead66]

Can you believe this BS? This is from the party that was out to make Obama a one term Pesident from day one. The party who held the country hostage over a debt ceiling increase that the GOP themselves will have to increase 20 times. The GOP are a party of spin-doctors. The last time Obama walked into the GOP's house to address the GOP's lies, FOX news turned off the cameras and left because they couldn't stand seeing the GOP get their rear-end handed to them. You want to watch an hour and a half of the GOP getting trounced by Obama, here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BE9_x7xTo

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Republicans are rigging the elections trying to steal it with these unnecessary VOTER I.D. LAWS and they have yet to pay the appropriate price for subverting our constitution and democracy. The media print, video and digital are complicit in allowing this. The media and our government would be shouting what republicans are doing at every chance if this were going on in country of one of our enemies. But it's accepted because it's happening here in America?

HELL NO! Republicans must be held to account for this attack to subvert our democracy. Republicans should be attacked by libertarians, liberals, conservatives, tea partiers and other groups in addition to the media for subverting our right to vote.

[bbglow]

Question for republicans: Why are you willing to create middle income and a demand based economy abroad, i.e. China, India, Brazil, et. al. while ignoring and denouncing it's validity at home?

[bbglow]

Barbour told host Bob Schieffer that voters recognize Mr. Obama should have been able to work more effectively with Republicans in Congress, and that he is to blame for a lack of cooperation.

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Say what? The RNC occupies a fantasy world. Inflicting pain and destroying the American middle for their leisure is the goal.

Tea Party, Norquist and party-of-no is the current definition for unwilling to cooperate. Just who do they think they are fooling? With 41% of Americans now identifying themselves as independent and the RNC with less admitted folowers than the democrats, they are slowly moving themselves to voter irrelevance outside their gerrymandered districts.

[bbglow]

The RNC is in a bind, they must return to building the American middle or their precious party is doomed. Simple math, the less inclusive, the more you exclude, the less support on the horizon.

They appear blind to their bind ... better circle the wagons.

[bbglow]

Many disenfranchised Americans may not vote and the RNC may win ... however, that does "not" change the math. It mearly builds more discontent ...

[irishseamoss]

It is about the economy, about Americans who are suffering and falling behind. Obama hasn't done it. Hopefully Romney will do the job.

[steeepe]

If you expect Bush-style economic policies (supply side, trickle-down, voodoo economics) to save the day, you're mistaken. History clearly shows that the GOP policies have failed. If you want the rich to get richer and live in a world where you go bankrupt for medical expenses, and the government regulates your personal behavior but nothing else, vote for the fraud and the phony, aka Romney and Ryan.

[JJ_in_tulsa]

We have a business, have had it for 15 years. But we can't pay the obama health care. Can't . We are out of business at the end of this year unless someone gets a clue. We can't pay fot that. We can't. We are a small business, and we can't pay for that. Unless you wanna pay 30.oo for a pizza we can't. You are putting us out of business and I don't understand why.. We pay people wages,, but you want too much and we can't. I am sure Obama has a pizza place he preferres.

[johnlockesghost]

The entire political arena is what is not real. The republicans have sold their souls (and the people that vote for them) into slavery to one man - Grover Norquist. Having done so, Norquist may become America's first monarch, if he is not already, thus destroying, in a pen stroke?, the cumulative effort it took to create this nation.

The democrats have no room to rejoice as Obama is selling the nation into slavery by his imperialistic actions as regards to illegal immigration. The only real difference between Obama and King Norquist is that Obama, at least, makes his underhandedness seem legitimate. King Norquist is several steps below that.

[doll3115]

Priebus first of all is on drugs or an alcoholic . He needs to do a drop for drugs. Priebus is the last person on earth to say anything about anyone. MIT Romney is a LIAR and now LYING Ryan has joined the ticket for VP. I have never met two men that every single word out their mouths are LIES. And if anyone believes anything any of all these LIARS say you need to go and see a shrink cause the entire republicain 2012 campaign is ran on LIES. It is a shame that you don't even have a clue about how all the republicains are just straight out LYING to the American people about. That's is why Obama will win the 2012 election cause over half of the American people have found out about all of the republican LIES that already have be told.