To put it in terms of gamesmanship: The Democrats should hire concern trolls to write those ads. They should use the tone of sweet reason to scare the dickens out of American voters.

gs: “Obama is vulnerable. Obama is not beyond a point of no return.”
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…He has no intention of turning back, and he is past the point of electability unless he does so. Barring a total melt down of the Republican candidate, Obama is done.

1. A skeptic might interpret the two phrases I boldfaced as escape clauses.

2. For the three incumbent Presidents–Ford, Carter, Bush 41–whose reelection efforts I saw fail, the outcomes were in doubt well into the campaign.

3. The Moderate Voice’s Joe Gandelman titles his post, “Gallup Poll: Obama Re-Election Now Far From A Shoo In”. That’s in the ball park afaic, though shaded too favorably for Obama. (NB: I’m quoting the TMV site, not recommending it.)

“As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.”

This new Obama administration website resembles nothing so much as the “official line” memos that used to be issued–I believe weekly–to each official propagandist/political officer in the old U.S.S.R., so that they could tell the masses what was officially “true and correct,” what ideas it was permissible to hold, and what it was permissible to think and say, with these not “getting the message” given free trips to Siberia.

So, for convenience sake and to stop useless and perhaps dangerous questioning of Obama, authority, and official “reality,” we now have the “current line”; the list of officially approved thoughts we are allowed to hold and the sentiments we are allowed to express.

Thus, for instance, we are told that “Obama was born in the United States and is a U.S. citizen, period.”

Barack has to turn back to save his presidency. He has to return to centrist policies, stop the insane spending, dump Obamacare, roll back his 81,000+ new pages of regulations, unblock the energy permitting process, etc.

He has no intention of turning back, and he is past the point of electability unless he does so. Barring a total melt down of the Republican candidate, Obama is done.

Carville started sputtering about all the things going wrong with the economy and said you couldn’t have all those things happening without someone doing their jobs so badly they deserved indicting.

Hard to avoid the impression he was trying desperately hard to find someone besides Obama to blame. Of course, when referring to the Presidency, indict isn’t exactly the word …