A mail and a video. So Barack Obama, twenty months exactly from the presidential 2012, opened the campaign for reelection to the White House. The Web opens confident, the same tool that made its fortune four years ago. In the email, the president writes of "not wanting to go with expensive TV ads or lavish excesses, but you - the people who are organized in the neighborhoods, talking with neighbors, colleagues and friends." The video, titled "It Begins With Us" does just that.
And, Gladys, Katherine, Mike, Alice, ordinary Americans with roots in North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, New York - the West, the South, the Great Plains of central and Eastern city - tell their expectations, hopes, emotions. "I'm nervous," confesses Gladys, still smiling in front of the next challenge.
"Over the past two and a half years we have seen the change," says Katherine. "As a kid I was hoping to help Obama in the re-election, and that's what I'll do," says Mike Young. " And "unfortunately, Obama is one, can not do everything," Alice puts her hands forward, aware that criticism, and many will arrive.
The faces and thoughts from average Joe, from ordinary people, chosen to inaugurate the Obama campaign should not cheat anyway. This campaign will be the most sophisticated and expensive in American history. The President and his team know very well, and in fact for weeks they sent to Chicago, once again campaign headquarters, the former deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, who was appointed head of the presidential election 2012.
Still remains in the rooms of tables, posters, mobile, Messina has already set the goals, especially economic, of the campaign. For the 450 major donors has given a particularly ambitious: to collect $ 350,000 each. "This could be the first presidential campaign in U.S. history to cost more than a billion dollars," says Messina, noting that Obama's in 2008 had cost 750 million.
The money, many will be needed the rest, if Obama wants to keep control of the White House against an ever tougher for Republicans: the eternal promise Mitt Romney, the favorite of the Tea Party Michele Bachmann, the former ambassador to Beijing Jon Huntsman. All in all likelihood, to rebuke the trend uncertain and wavering on the war (the last, Libya, Obama waited days before appearing on TV and explain its position to the Americans), an economic recovery remains fragile, many broken promises (one for all, the closure of Guantanamo), and an energy policy that, by the disaster to that of BP Fukushima, has greatly reduced the possible options.
The Obama who is about to come into contention for the remainder of 2012 is a man and a politician, very different from that in a very cold day in February 2007 announced, in front of the Capitol in Springfield, his candidacy. Then, the young senator from Illinois (which seemed to many a better hope, rather than a possible reality), it was to denounce the disproportionate costs of financial assistance, an economy that initiated the collapse, the perennial dependence foreign oil and wars in which the United States of Bush were stuck, not knowing how to get out.
Above all, then, was to denounce the "petty politics, the power of money and the internal divisions in Washington." To all Americans, the majority, tired and disheartened, Obama conveyed a clear message, that of change, hope, which could be achieved in one way: to elect to the White House.
The Obama of today is plagued by the same ghosts that he conjured up four years ago. The end of the war in Afghanistan, with the announced withdrawal from August 2011, remains a wish than a reality (in addition, the President now has his war, Libya, to be reckoned with) the effects health care reform, the most important of his first term, you will see between years (allowing Republican opposition), the work did not arrive with the promise of speed (although the latest figures on unemployment, which fell to 8, 8%, would help ), the myth of infallibility of the president "global star" has failed with the defeat in the 2010 legislation.
The much-heralded end of the partisan politics of Washington and then remained on paper, and in the speeches of birds last year: the last two and a half years have been among the most incendiary periods of political history at the stars and stripes. "The president will focus on the fact that they went to the White House with the country in pieces, and put it back on track.
But he needs another four years to complete the work, "said Henry Berger, an analyst with democracy. Above all, one might add, Obama needs to recover and revitalize the enthusiasm that in 2008 brought millions of Americans to look to him as the prophet capable of putting an end to eight years of dèbacles and bitterness.
A difficult task almost impossible, because the prophet in these two years is due to descend on earth and come to terms with reality. "I do not always agree with him, but I respect and trust," he says in the video "It Begins with Us" And, sitting on the veranda of his house in North Carolina.
Here, "respect," "trust," much less amazing concepts, wetter reality that "change" and "hope", will most likely be the key words of "Obama for President 2012." 
And, Gladys, Katherine, Mike, Alice, ordinary Americans with roots in North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, New York - the West, the South, the Great Plains of central and Eastern city - tell their expectations, hopes, emotions. "I'm nervous," confesses Gladys, still smiling in front of the next challenge.
"Over the past two and a half years we have seen the change," says Katherine. "As a kid I was hoping to help Obama in the re-election, and that's what I'll do," says Mike Young. " And "unfortunately, Obama is one, can not do everything," Alice puts her hands forward, aware that criticism, and many will arrive.
The faces and thoughts from average Joe, from ordinary people, chosen to inaugurate the Obama campaign should not cheat anyway. This campaign will be the most sophisticated and expensive in American history. The President and his team know very well, and in fact for weeks they sent to Chicago, once again campaign headquarters, the former deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, who was appointed head of the presidential election 2012.
Still remains in the rooms of tables, posters, mobile, Messina has already set the goals, especially economic, of the campaign. For the 450 major donors has given a particularly ambitious: to collect $ 350,000 each. "This could be the first presidential campaign in U.S. history to cost more than a billion dollars," says Messina, noting that Obama's in 2008 had cost 750 million.
The money, many will be needed the rest, if Obama wants to keep control of the White House against an ever tougher for Republicans: the eternal promise Mitt Romney, the favorite of the Tea Party Michele Bachmann, the former ambassador to Beijing Jon Huntsman. All in all likelihood, to rebuke the trend uncertain and wavering on the war (the last, Libya, Obama waited days before appearing on TV and explain its position to the Americans), an economic recovery remains fragile, many broken promises (one for all, the closure of Guantanamo), and an energy policy that, by the disaster to that of BP Fukushima, has greatly reduced the possible options.
The Obama who is about to come into contention for the remainder of 2012 is a man and a politician, very different from that in a very cold day in February 2007 announced, in front of the Capitol in Springfield, his candidacy. Then, the young senator from Illinois (which seemed to many a better hope, rather than a possible reality), it was to denounce the disproportionate costs of financial assistance, an economy that initiated the collapse, the perennial dependence foreign oil and wars in which the United States of Bush were stuck, not knowing how to get out.
Above all, then, was to denounce the "petty politics, the power of money and the internal divisions in Washington." To all Americans, the majority, tired and disheartened, Obama conveyed a clear message, that of change, hope, which could be achieved in one way: to elect to the White House.
The Obama of today is plagued by the same ghosts that he conjured up four years ago. The end of the war in Afghanistan, with the announced withdrawal from August 2011, remains a wish than a reality (in addition, the President now has his war, Libya, to be reckoned with) the effects health care reform, the most important of his first term, you will see between years (allowing Republican opposition), the work did not arrive with the promise of speed (although the latest figures on unemployment, which fell to 8, 8%, would help ), the myth of infallibility of the president "global star" has failed with the defeat in the 2010 legislation.
The much-heralded end of the partisan politics of Washington and then remained on paper, and in the speeches of birds last year: the last two and a half years have been among the most incendiary periods of political history at the stars and stripes. "The president will focus on the fact that they went to the White House with the country in pieces, and put it back on track.
But he needs another four years to complete the work, "said Henry Berger, an analyst with democracy. Above all, one might add, Obama needs to recover and revitalize the enthusiasm that in 2008 brought millions of Americans to look to him as the prophet capable of putting an end to eight years of dèbacles and bitterness.
A difficult task almost impossible, because the prophet in these two years is due to descend on earth and come to terms with reality. "I do not always agree with him, but I respect and trust," he says in the video "It Begins with Us" And, sitting on the veranda of his house in North Carolina.
Here, "respect," "trust," much less amazing concepts, wetter reality that "change" and "hope", will most likely be the key words of "Obama for President 2012."
- Jeffrey Campagna: Fox News Pundit Reaction to DOJ DOMA Stance: "This Is Mubarak Obama" (24/02/2011)
- Conservative Faith Coalition Urges Congress To Defend DOMA (05/03/2011)
- Al mio fratello maggiore (11/03/2011)
- 2 reviews of Campagna Pasta & Sause (18/03/2011)
- Campagna follows up T-Rex with V13R trike (17/03/2011)
No comments:
Post a Comment