Re: One leetle problem with Sept. 7 Joint Session of Cong - ASIDE from the Repub deba
My congressman is here in Oregon on August recess, yours is still in Washington?
He isn't sure obama can get re elected either
EDITORIAL: A break in the ranks
DeFazio says the president needs to show more “fight”
Published: (Sunday, Aug 21, 2011 05:01AM) Midnight, Aug. 21
Peter DeFazio may be guilty of saying what a lot of Democrats are thinking, but he’s right.
In a Wednesday interview on KGW-TV, Oregon’s 4th District congressman said if President Obama faces a Republican nominee next fall “who is a little bit toward the middle of the road, ... he’s going to have a very tough time getting re-elected.”
Some might view such talk by a member of a president’s own party as political heresy. But DeFazio, who is talking to Oregon voters during Congress’ August recess, said “people are shaking their head and saying, ‘I don’t know if I’d vote for him again.’ ”
Obama won 28 states in 2008. He got the majority of votes in 13 of Oregon’s 36 counties and captured 57 percent of the vote statewide, compared with 53 percent nationwide. He won 54 percent of the 4th District vote.
DeFazio has crossed swords with Obama several times since the election, but he’s never been blunt publicly about the president’s chances of winning a second term. The reason, he said, is the president’s recent “flip-flops” in negotiations with Republicans over the federal debt-ceiling issue, chiding that “fight” doesn’t seem to be “a word in his vocabulary.”
Other congressional Democrats have grumbled about Obama’s seeming inability to stand up to the GOP, in particular its gaggle of tea party freshmen in the House. Now that sentiment seems to be gaining ground among Obama supporters.
The hour is getting late, but the president still has a year before the 2012 Democratic National Convention to show some of the backbone he’s lacked in his first three years in office.
http://www.registerguard.com/web/opinion/26735980-47/president-obama-defazio-oregon-percent.html.csp
