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President Obama Should Seize the High Ground
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Friedman says Obama's 2012 presidential campaign lacks bold vision, a failure to articulate tangible achievements, and owes too much to campaign consultants. He describes it as being developed in test tube fashion. The failure to embrace and strongly advocate his own presidential commission's Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan, which could be coupled with long term investment in the productive potential of the U.S. economy, shows the lack of courage to prepare a plan going forward. It is likely to cost support of independent, center and center-right voters in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Friedman on Obama, the presidential campaign of 2012 and the failure to embrace the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan
09/26/2011
A campaign developed by campaign consultants lacking boldness and clear vision, one developed in test-tube fashion, is how Friedman describes the Obama election campaign. He describes the long period in the second half of 2011 as a crucial period inthe Obama presidency, when Obama lacked the courage to embrace his own presidential commission's Simpson-Bowles plan for deficit reduction and simply vacillated in a back and forth with Republicans. The price may well be the loss of independent and center-right voters.
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