...And More and More Feisty Too

Black scholar and progressive Clarence Jones has had it with the President:

It is not easy to consider challenging the first African-American to be elected as President of the United States. But, regrettably, I believe that the time has come to do this.

It is time for Progressives to stop "whining" and arguing among themselves about whether President Obama will or will not do this or that. Obama is no different than any other President, nominated by his national party. He was elected with the hard work and 24/7 commitment of persons who believed and enlisted in his campaign for "Hope" and "Change."

You don't have to be a rocket scientist nor have a PhD in political science and sociology to see clearly that Obama has abandoned much of the base that elected him. He has done this because he no longer respects, fears or believes those persons who elected him have any alternative, but to accept what he does, whether they like it or not.

It is time for those persons who constituted the "Movement" that enabled Senator Barack Obama to be elected to "break their silence"; to indicate that they no longer will sit on their hands, and only let off verbal steam and ineffective sound and fury, and "hope" for the best.

The answer is blowin' in the wind

The pursuit of the war in Afghanistan in support of a certifiably corrupt Afghan government and the apparent willingness to retreat from his campaign commitment of no further tax cuts for the rich, his equivocal and foot dragging leadership to end DADT, his TARP for Wall Street, but, equivocal insufficient attention to the unemployment and housing foreclosures of Main Street, suggest that the template of the 1968 challenge to the reelection of President Lyndon Johnson now must be thoughtfully considered for Obama in 2012.

It's becoming more and more clear that Obama will face a primary challenge from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party over the next year. Who that might be or what it might achieve is completely unclear. But it's going to divide the party very badly one would think, if only because African-Americans are going to react badly to the first Black president being pushed out of office.

Odds are increasing that it will be a Republican sweep in 2012 (and then the problems are all theirs, I guess). Or, as I predicted earlier, a third-party candidate like Michael Bloomberg might emerge, but how successful he might be is very unpredictable, so you could still have a Republican sweep.

I'll end with a wild speculation for you. The party turns to Hillary Clinton, the 2008 runnerup in the Democratic party and loyal Obama Secretary of State, as Obama's successor, and Obama somehow is talked into that by the powers that be.