Barack Obama President: We Need a Nationwide Charlie Brown Good Grief!

Barack Obama President: We Need a Nationwide Charlie Brown Good Grief! was written a while ago but it contains much that is utterly relevant to the continuing campaign as we reach the final stage. Unchanged:

Obama Weighs Influence on Democrats' Midterm Races - NYTimes.com: "Democrats who are on the ballot hope to make the election about issues other than Mr. Obama, including the benefits to their constituents of the health care and stimulus legislation and the argument that voting Republican means a return to the policies of President George W. Bush."

We need a nationwide Charlie Brown Good Grief!

We need Austin Powers to do his mojo routine.

The Democratic wisdom that would hide Barack Obama as though he is not the main issue in the fall elections is an invitation to suicide. It would rank up there with Gore's idiotic decision to keep Bill Clinton under wraps in 2000.

Obama Is The Issue

President Obama won the election in 2008 and he won it because he ran a gutsy campaign with a gutsy sidekick named David Plouffe. For reasons I have never understood, this wonderful partnership was neutered after the election. Maybe both men changed.

Whatever it was, the mojo has suffered.

But the coming election is precisely what s needed to get back on track and defeat the wingnuts who have been screwing up the nation as best they can -- with the willing help of Democrats like Ben Nelson.

President Obama is a centrist by inclination. But with David Plouffe at his side, he also became a canny fighter who did not duck and run and who won handily.

The fact is that the President's willingness to stand up is the issue. Not for the left but for the entire country. Read the above and weep. Then wait to see all the deft little candidates who tried to hide the President beg for him to appear as they watch their little numbers diminish.

If I was running things I would give Plouffe a cortizone shot and put him in charge.

And I would not give a dime to any campaign that did not engage in a frontal attack defending the President's record and articulating his agenda.

Engage, for god's sake.

The days of wimp politics need to end. I have argued President Obama is not a wimp. I don't think he is. But stories like NYT one above turn my stomach.

Barack Obama President: We Need a Nationwide Charlie Brown Good Grief! President Obama is the issue. Hiding him is like giving the farm to Eric Kantor and company. How dumb can a party be?