Ralph Nader: Why Obama Will Get Second Term in White House

[Godhumor]

Nader posted some commentary at Bloomberg recently (http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aujycMJqgyt0).

It starts off with some points about the weak and crazy republican field and then moves onto how Obama will win because he doesn't care about principles. As always, Nader provides both head-scratching moments and heartburn. I really don't like the man he has become in the past decade or so, but I figure some people might want to read up on his thoughts in 2012:

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First, the Republicans -- driven by their most conservative members in Congress -- will face a primary with many candidates who will advance harsh ideological positions. Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and others might as well be on the Democratic National Committee payroll. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s reverse Robin Hood plan to cut more than $6 trillion in spending over a decade will provide the outrage, stoked by a sitting president possessed of verbal discipline.

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Second, the Republican governors’ attacks on unions are turning off the swing voters and Reagan Democrats in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Imagine the voter reaction if millions of workers lose their right to collective bargaining, and the impact that cuts in benefits and wages will have on their lives.

...(Item 3 deals with no primary challenge to Obama)...

Fourth, Obama has neutered much of the big corporate lobby’s zeal to defeat him. He decided from the beginning not to prosecute executives from Wall Street banking, brokerage and rating firms. Multinational companies are pleased with Obama’s position on trade, on not disturbing the many corporate subsidies, handouts and giveaways, such as the corn-ethanol subsidy.

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Fifth, since the Republicans have little to offer by way of creating jobs, Obama need only show improvement in macroeconomic indicators, as Ronald Reagan did in 1983-1984, and proceed to showcase all the tax breaks he has signed into law for big and small businesses. Poor Americans who continue to bear the brunt of the recession are hardly going to vote Republican. It will be easy for Obama, with his oratorical skills, to paint the Republican-controlled House of Representatives as obstructionist, especially as he develops an economic plan for his second term.

[leveymg]

1. Lucid, logical, and probably accurate. The middle-class are truly f-cked, no matter who gets

elected.

It's not even a choice between lesser of evils - it's just a question of how and when the global elites are going to burn us after they've stripped all the movable assets out of America. A choice of execution, perhaps.

Last cigarette?

[harun]

3. Correct indeed. We become less and less of a Democracy every day.

[Autumn]

2. Yeah, that's just about it.

I think he got all the bases covered.

[phiddle]

4. Why Obama WON'T get a second term in the White House

1. He's no longer needed. He's been a useful tool whose services in increasing American wars abroad, further concentrating wealth, diluting health and financial sector reform movements, and increasing deficit hysteria have run their course.
2. His current rhetoric about taxing the wealthy might just create expectations too difficult to tamp down.
2. Supreme Court nominations. Can't risk a moderate replacing Ginsburg or especially Kennedy.
3. E-voting.
4. Huge piles of corporate cash.
5. A complicit media.
6. Recently elected right wing governors in the swing, and '08 Obama, states of Fla., Wisc., MI, OH and IN. You think Jeb in 2000 was something, wait'll you see Snyder in MI, Kasich in OH and Scott in FL---a triple play!