Can’t Buy Me Love: The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama
ByThe corniest line I heard from a liberal democrat friend after the ascendence of President Obama should be credited to an old buddy from high school, James. Upon hearing criticism that Obama’s inauguration would cost taxpayers $170 million dollars, James updated his Facebook status to read something like this:
“Some people are questioning the cost of the inauguration. But really, can anyone put a price tag on inspiration?”
We mention the line today because James’ Facebook status updates now focus much more on pop culture and much less on Obamania.
This makes sense. Polls show that Obama is not only no longer inspirational, if trends continue, he may actually become “uncool.” Today the liberal Los Angeles Times is reporting that Obama’s “grassroots” organization, Organize for America, is not quite as enthusiastic as it was when it had a presidential election within reach. We hear that the organization is 13 million strong, but we suspect that only a couple of hundred thousand are active these days as disillusionment builds.
We have some theories about why Obama is struggling, but we’d love to hear from our site visitors, “mobsters,” and the tea party crowd. Leave a comment or send us an email if you think you can explain how Barack Obama could mortgage the future of his country by handing out trillions in obligations and still end up struggling at the polls.
We understand that there are labor unionists and special interest advocates who will never stop loving Obama. It is clear that their love can be bought. But, we think it may be possible that most Americans — conservative and liberal — are just too public-minded in their expectations to be too enthusiastic about more constroversial redistributive handouts at this stage in the game. We suspect that Obamacare has the votes in the House, but we’re not sure that it would win a popular initiative election.
Whether Obama can buy his reelection with record spending and new entitlements is unclear, but it is certainly starting to look like he has reason to be concerned that money may not buy love next time around.
