Wednesday, January 26, 2011

State of the Nation: Obama attracts Republicans in the savings trap

For him it is the most important PR event of the year: 50 million people will watch Barack Obama, speaking on television on the evening of the Nation. The president, whose poll numbers rise is currently presenting itself as the voice of reason against Republican Broken savers. What does he think now because of recent poll numbers, the reporter wants to know from President spokesman Robert Gibbs.

Gibbs ignore such polls always, if Obama were the numbers in the cellar. But this time the trend is showing up. Will he say anything because maybe? Gibbs smiles. He could not remember ever having been asked to positive numbers, he jokes. His broad smile revealed how well the mood of Obama's team in the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night - that report, the American president since George Washington's premiere in 1790 to deliver a regular basis.

Finally, Obama's approval ratings just went up significantly, reaching more than 50 percent. Most recently, he was able to fight in Congress including the start-disarmament treaty with Russia and allow homosexuals unrestricted service in the U.S. Army. After the massacre in Tucson, where a young bomber killed six people and seriously injured a Democratic congressman, the president gave a speech at the memorial service, which even his fiercest critics called it inspirational.

Obama wants to continue this run now - before a TV audience as it watches only other major events like the Academy Awards. About 50 million Americans are expected to follow the speech lasting about an hour. The audience will be sitting directly to Obama survivors of Tucson - are thus expected very emotional images.

The president is the right time. "He needs to build on the momentum that he has just so he can regain the initiative," says William Galston of the Brookings Institution in Washington, the Internet portal Politico. Obama is the Chefversöhner The tone should be more important than the actual message.

A patriotic and emotional speech expected policy experts in the capital, free from partisan undertones such as the Presidential speech in Tucson. After all, the nation has recovered from the shock of the massacre still not there, and Obama wants to give the Chefversöhner, after all he has promised exactly that role once as a presidential candidate.

"We can make it if we stand together as a people," he wrote at the weekend in an e-mail supporters. But the conciliatory message and the insight is due to the limits of his political power. A year ago, Obama was speaking as a president who whopping majorities in Congress knew behind. Then enter again, the Republicans set the agenda.

Therefore, the battle for public opinion is more important. Obama leads the determined since the setback in the midterm elections in November - mainly through a pivot to the political center. He has just named the head of the industrial giant General Electric as a new economic policy adviser, a peace offering to the business heads.

In the tax policy, he concluded a compromise with the Republicans. And in his speech on Tuesday he expected to stress a message that meets this actually: He wants to save. The clean up government finances - the central message of Obama's speech will be. This is reminiscent of Bill Clinton, who created in the nineties by a strict austerity measures his political comeback after verlnen congressional elections.

But Obama's tasks are still huge, around 14 trillion U.S. dollars is now the U.S. national debt. The Republicans will, therefore, radically reduce expenditure, but this year they called for cuts of up to $ 100 billion. Even the otherwise sacrosanct military spending are at stake. "We need to shrink the government, we must cut spending," said Eric Cantor, majority leader of the Conservatives in the House of Representatives.

Obama is on the "Sputnik" moment behind such proposals is hidden also an ideology that the state deeply skeptical eyed - and sees him as a problem, not a solution, in the words of Ronald Reagan once. For the followers of the radical Tea Party movement such sentences are currently very popular again.

Obama is willing to keep the reference to the "Sputnik" moment - the national spirit of optimism late fifties, when the Soviet Union during the U.S. satellites seemed like this draw. A message of "confidence" it is now to go, says the White House - despite a U.S. unemployment rate of nearly ten percent and growing competition from China.

President Hu Jintao was just the state visit in Washington stressed self-confident. Obama wants in his speech "investment" to emphasize that emphasize America's competitiveness, such as solar energy, in education, in high-speed trains. I like also his democratic base. However, "investment" for the Republicans in the first place is another word for more government spending.

"Whenever they want to spend money, they talk about investments. So the president will probably like this on Tuesday evening to talk much," Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of laughs. Conservative governors have rejected government aid such as the construction of high speed trains demonstrative.

Bill Clinton is to learn every possible new edition will be offset by reduction proposals, Obama's advisers think about it. As a language rules are before the White House that they wanted to invest in projects that made America stronger - and cut programs whose object was not. What can be said really little.

NOW LIKE the president let the Republicans fall in the savings trap. How this is done, he can also aspects from Clinton. The Republicans once successfully introduced as a radical blockers only after their savings into madness even paralyzed the legislative operation. Obama also wants to talk and act now as the voice of reason - to challenge alleged Republican Broken savers.

This could well be a promising tactic in a time warning in the U.S., many economists warned that a too extreme austerity of the state the delicate economic recovery could stop it. Obama's advisers also know all the opinion polls guaranteed, no matter what Gibbs spokesman says. The surveys reveal confusion among U.S.

citizens in terms of saving. If you ask Americans whether the government should save, they mostly agree. When it comes to specific reductions, however, of which they may be affected, they quickly change their minds.

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