May 10, 2012 - Issue 471 |
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The President’s
Re-Election Strategy:
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President
Obama launched his re-election campaign last week and now, for the next
six months, the nation will be witness to the Republicans’ attempt to
derail the most significant change to ever affect the Presidency of the
Obama-mania
was the most exciting thing to hit When the mid-term elections came around, they were nowhere to be found. The mania was gone because Obama wasn’t on the ballot. The Democrats lost the House because pop culture didn’t show up for politics. It showed up for Obama. Now the President has the daunting task of convincing those million and another generation that has since turned eighteen years old and will be voting in their first election, that change is working. Heretofore, all the energy has been put on raising money…and that is necessary. He raised $750 million in 2008, and has promised to raise a billion this time - because the Republicans and the Supreme Court have changed all the rules on campaign finance limits. They are trying to raise two billion to stop this change train. The fundraisers can’t invigorate the masses. Not in this economy. Only the President can. The President’s main task is convincing us that he was, in fact, the change that we had been waiting for, and that we were part of that change in his first term. The President must tell more of what he’s done, where it becomes evidence that Candidate Obama went to work for the people once he became President Obama. His “Promises Kept” agenda must be more widely communicated than the begging for dollars (which is getting on nerves). I shouldn’t have to pay to hear what my President has done for me, every time I want to see him. They need to work on that. Because young people, in particular, don’t understand that aspect of politics yet. They just want to know if anything has changed. Only the President can answer that for them. He’d better…if he wants the mania to return. Because, again, the world is watching… BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, is a national columnist, managing director of the Urban Issues Forum and author of Saving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom. His Website is AnthonySamad.com. Twitter @dranthonysamad. Click here to contact Dr. Samad. |
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