RSSObama’s Winter Fall From Grace: BARGAINING
Gene Lalor | February 17, 2010
Third in a series on the collapse of the Obama presidency, its causes, and its effects on Barack Obama, effects comparable to the 5 stages of grief. Part One dealt with denial, Part Two with anger. Today:
BARGAINING 
In the 5 stages of Obama’s grief over his failed presidency, after denial and anger comes bargaining.
We bargain all the time.
The lover bargains with his beloved when she no longer wants to be his beloved. The workman bargains with his employer when he tries to wheedle more pay. The supplicant bargains with God, often on his death bed.
And the politician bargains when he compromises with his fellow politicians and bargains with the electorate when he campaigns for election.
In Obama’s case, he is bargaining out of desperation: A new Gallup poll shows the incumbent president in a statistical dead heat with . . . every Republican, i.e. against any generic Republican. Worse, Mr. Generic Rep leads Obama 45%-31% among American independents: http://bit.ly/bLoz41.
Those sad realities for Obama in and of themselves represent a sad commentary on the status of his presidency.
Compound them with doubts within his own party and things look even worse: “He says ‘I’m for clean coal,’ and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn’t say it in here,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. “And he doesn’t say it in the minds of my own people. And he’s beginning to not be believable to me:” http://bit.ly/cS5Ra7
Obama’s time for serious bargaining is nigh, and he knows it. Thus his invite to both Democrats and Republicans to a top level White House get together on February 25th.
Billed as a negotiating/bargaining session on health care/Obamacare legislation, this would be Obama’s last best chance to hammer out a bi-partisan agreement on this the president’s signature domestic issue, and hammer while being telecast live: http://nyti.ms/d9qfwI
Unfortunately for him and the country, this president is little accustomed to such bargaining, especially with the loyal opposition party which has been shut out heretofore in the year-long health care debate.
Announced during the Super Bowl for greatest public exposure, the February 25th summit may very well be a ruse since it was totally unanticipated.
It may be designed as a platform for Obama’s ideas only and any opposition input may be reduced to perfunctory commentary while the president expounds on his opinions as he reads them from his trusty, indispensable teleprompter.
If that scenario plays out, it will be regrettable for all concerned, mainly for Barack Obama who will have trashed his final opportunity to bargain on the monumental issue of the nation’s health care.
Americans won’t care to witness the next phases of Obama’s painful struggle over the collapse of his presidency, depression when all else fails and acceptance when he surrenders to it. Both presidential depression and a president’s acceptance of his failure could be catastrophic for the nation.
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