Obama please, please, please get tough, but in language idiots like me would understand

I was initially so impressed with Obama through the primaries I thought his approach was perfect, but that was the primaries. He was in poll position and had a hell of a lot more to lose, by responding with like and going negative against Clinton. If he had, he risked dividing a party that he needed united if he won, but this is very different, this is the real thing.

What worked in the primaries isn’t necessarily going to work in the general, some maybe, but definitely not all. They key point to remember here is that half of the US electorate voted for Bush’s re-election.

I could just about forgive people voting for Bush in the first place, I mean he seemed like a nice enough bloke, he had his impeccable bi-partisan background, and after, what many independents would see as, the partisan failings of the Clinton administration, was probably seen as a positive by many people. But, Bush 04 was NOT that person, we’d already sucked it to see, and anyone could see that he sucked. Yet that didn’t stop half the electorate voting for him.

In fact, if I may remind you, more people voted for president Bush’s reelection than for any president in the history of this nation, there’s no backing away from the fact that Obama needs to convert hundreds of thousands maybe even a million of those same Re-Elect Bush voters. Remember these people were not sitting on the fence, they actually bothered their asses to go out and vote to ‘re-elect’ him, these aren’t people that take their politics lightly.

Obama either needs the greatest turn out of 18-30 yr olds in history, or he has to convert significant numbers of the Re-Elect Bush voters, if not, he’s gonna lose. And when I was 18-30 yrs old, I was all mouth and no trousers. I‘d warn against relying on America‘s youth to save us, they’ll talk a good game but where were the numbers last time the world desperately needed them 04?

Let me refer to the 70% of Americans supporting off-shore drilling again. If Bush’s re-election didn’t convince you that a large number of the American electorate are low information voters (I’m being kind), then that stat should. It should also highlight just how far from these voters this campaign has got at the moment. Off shore drilling is not the number 1 issue here, we all know that, it may possibly be part of the mid-term solution, but it isn’t the short term or long term solution, yet all the brahuha is focused on this marginal mid-term solution!

Every time Obama or a leader of the Democratic Party opens their mouth and makes intelligent noises they risk losing voters, Democrats, intelligent Independents even some smart Republicans will understand it, but they’ve already decided who they’ll vote for, they risk losing all those people that have only heard the charge of ‘elitist’, which I guarantee is gonna be ran and re-ran on the only news channel they watch, Fox. Past Memorial Day the election is all about low info voters.

The repugs have painted the Democratic party so effectively that even in their darkest hour they have something to cling to and it‘s not guns or religion, it‘s their low info voters and the charge of elitist socialists coming to destroy the world with their helpful, nice and giving ways.