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Is it wrong that this makes me laugh my ass off at this point?

Obama gave his weekly address the other day and tossed out some tough talk.




It may not be PC to say this and some people may not like it, but when I hear him talk now it makes me laugh most of the time.

The guy is three years in to his presidency and he's still talking like George Bush is still president but if you get behind him he'll try to clean up the mess.

He talks about higher taxes on the rich and closing tax loop holes on corporations. Ummm, fine, so why haven't you done it yet?

I liked Obama. I had high hopes for him. I thought he had the potential to be a modern day hybrid of Gandhi and capitalism wrapped into one.

But at this point, he just makes me laugh. I mean, he's 75 per cent through his term and what he's basically saying now is "Look folks, things are an absolute mess. We've got to actually do something about this now. Tough choices have to be made."

hahah - yes, things are a mess and you should have tackled that mess (the economy and the deficit) three years ago! It's just so absurd to me that his talking points today are the same talking points he had three years ago - it gives the salient impression that he hasn't done anything of substance with the three years he's had to work with.

From a PR perspective I've felt that Obama has blown whatever messaging strategy he had a while ago. As I stated pretty clearly in a past post - Bye Bye Obama.

2012 should be fascinating. The only thing that might save Obama is that the Republican field is so dismal (and many of their core talking points are pretty absurd). He may also be able to still play the 'Republicans (Bush) ran this country in to the ground.' card, but I doubt it.

I think if the Republicans can field someone even half decent, that Obama will lose in 2012.  I'd like to think it would be Ron Paul, that would be one heck of a political boxing match watching Paul go up against Obama in election debates.

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