White House Needs Some Rebranding

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Sept. 8, 2010

White House Needs Some Rebranding

Maybe it's too late. President Obama has lots of new plans for tax breaks and mini-stimulus packages to help get people back to work. With just two months until the mid-term elections, the ideas, while certainly not without merit, feel a little desperate. No Republican on the planet will support the plans. Not until after November, anyway. And with the president's poll numbers on the decline and polls showing possible big gains for the Republicans in the House and Senate, from a political perspective, why would you? Now, the President can say, "Look what we're trying to do. The Republicans aren't pitching in." But it doesn't feel like anyone is listening. The White House needs to do some rebranding. Weeks and months of attacks and smears have basically gone unanswered. That's why so many Americans think Barack Obama is a Muslim socialist. It's almost as if the man who talked his way to the White House has lost his voice.

[paulllltaylor]

HARRY SMITH'S INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR REID WAS SO ARROGANT AND SOPHOMORIC; A KNOW IT ALL WHO OUGHT TO BE RETIRED. PAUL TAYLOR

[rexrox2]

I thought I would be able to reply to a comment, but they're all spot-on. Dan Pfeiffer, newly rehired campaign head for Obama said something to the effect, " If the Reps. win, they'll shut down government". Are there any americans left that are afraid of this outcome??? Shutting down the government is the first step to reclaiming it, from the Marxists. The answer is not the government, it's citizens keeping the money they earned and spending it the way they want to!!

AND, I've got to add this, Chuck Todd NBC and Government Media-crat used his turn during the national press conference to ask, " Mr. President, how are you going to change Washington??" Are you kidding me. This is the question of a journalist?? I know Middle School Reporters that have questions they'd like to ask that are tougher, than this one. What a SOFT-BALL QUESTION. Yes Mr. President give us another one of your speeches,one with the soaring rhetoric, maybe use the terms HOPE AND CHANGE. The way you and yours, got Obama Care Passed: Cornhusker Payoff, the Louisiana Purchase, not one even reading the bill, it's all being written by White House and Lobbyist Lawyers, PLEASE TELL US HOW YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE THAT NASTY OLD WASHINGTON!!

[ToolMangler1]

Don't even worry about Obama any more, The Koch Brothers will hamstring him, then the GOP can get back to the business of reducing America to a 3rd world status. You will get the 'Anarchy' you want, I hope you know how to survive when nobody gives a d___ about your life.

[plysle]

Obama came into office with considerable political capital,the economy in crisis, Wall St. at his mercy, both house and senate majorities, and the hope of a nation. With all this he couldn't come up with a plan to do anything. Health care? Not hardly. The administration couldn't give a reasonable articulation of the effects of the law even after it was passed. The economy? Throwing a trillion dollars at Wall St and Detroit is not a plan. Did he ever lay out what his health, stimulus, clean energy, or any other plan would do or how it would do it? When an administration can't articulate a goal and develop a plan to implement it under the conditions Obama started with they never will.

[cleantheDCcesspool]

The line from obamao, in his recent "Laborfest" speech, that really scared me was to the effect that he wants to offer "guarantees". Not guarantees of opportunity, but guarantees of success, wealth.

Sorry, but in America there are no such guarantees. Not, at least, in the America of 1776 - 2008. Work, education, perhaps inspiration, create success in the America prior to obamao. I am very afraid of the alternatives that may be created by obamao's transnational agenda.

[il2rb]

Obama, has constantly lied, and is clearly in way above his head. I've lived in Chicago for years, and I have never seen such arrogance and ignorance all wrapped up into one person like this president. The reason people wonder about his faith is because his beliefs certainty don't parallel mine and I am a Christian. His is not an American Christian like me or any of my friends and does not represent the same set of beliefs and values that we do. Above all else, freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to fail. But in the end, its my freedom.

[gep1955]

Every time the man opens his mouth with some new proposal it convinces more Americans he is a muslim, marxist socialist. We don't want any of what he proposes. He is the epitome of a corrupt political hack. One look at the condition of Illinois/Chicago left in his wake is an irrefutable testement to his knack for destruction in an effort to bathe in his own aggrandizement through lies and deceit.

[inketolstoy]

"The White House needs to do some rebranding. Weeks and months of attacks and smears have basically gone unanswered."

Mr. Smith, are you referring to the attacks and smears of the Republicans, or the attacks and smears the "great campaigner" has been launching from the White House?

[jimmyc1955]

The man who "talked himself to the White House" had no plans, no skills, no experience and no understanding of the realities of the Presidency. Other than a few ethereal phrases he had no qualifications for the job. His academic background left him ill equipped to deal with the realities of a world of people who don't want to co-operate, don't care about others and are unimpressed by your intellectual standings.

Iran, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iraq . . . they aren't impressed by his pretty words and made him look a fool in public. He got taken to the shed by Nancy Pelosi who set the domestic agenda and he fell for it hook, line and sinker.

He is not qualified for the job - it is that simple.

[tsigili]

The WH needs a new occupant.

[tsigili]

Obama is his own worst enemy. There is no way to compensate for that. he is as good as done, as a "lame duck".