I'm sorry, but I am not fooled by the all of the polls and liberals coming out claiming that Obama may not be the man they believed him to be. Some are claiming that Obama is giving in too much to Republican demands (The Examiner.com). The White House claims it is worried about the polls (Yahoo News). And leading up to his big jobs speech, it was leaked that it won't be a big grandiose speech, rather a piece of a much larger plan and series of speeches (a little more on that later) (Foxnews.com). And these are just a few exmples. So what is really going on here.
Could liberals truly be turning against one of their own? Not likely. The last thing they want is to elect a Republican, and it seems that no primary opponents to Obama have come around to challenge him. So he is what they have, and he is what the want over any Republican.
Or, could it be that they are tearing him down just to build him up again? This to me seems the more likely answer. The country is in bad shape, and the traditional media knows this. If they can convince everyone that things are really bad now and show they can be critical of Obama, then when the elections grow near they can play down the bad economic news and play up how Obama has heard the American people, gotten serious, and looks great. I am also pretty convinced that the media and the White House will figure out some way to put the unemployment figures below 8%, because no president historically has been re-elected with employment above 8%.
And as for that jobs speech, no doubt it was a political one, not a jobs one. I think the timing had more importance than the substance. Obama was trying to drive people away from the Republican debates. The last thing he wants is to see all of his potential opponents sounding better than him. The media helped by trying to make this job speech to be so important and grand. When it was clear he wouldn't get it on the time and day he wanted, they played it down as just another speech.
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