Obama’s potential recovery

Yet this new dynamic creates a host of opportunities for
Obama. More than ever, the lack of a 60-vote Senate allows Obama to return to
whom he portrayed himself to be — a mainstream Democrat who governs from the
middle — and finally rid himself of the Pelosi and Reid stranglehold.

We all know better, but if there’s a scapegoat to be found,
he’ll locate it. He should start with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who has been
and continues to be a serious liability to the president. The sooner Obama
gracefully gives Emanuel and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner a quick
departure, you may begin to see signs of his good fortunes return. One thing’s
for sure, Barack Obama will not repeat the same mistakes of his predecessor,
Bill Clinton. He never wants to utter the phrase, “The era of big government is
over.”

Time still favors the president and aspects of his agenda.
If he faces the bitter truth today, he can avoid electoral heartache in 2012. The
reelection campaign for President Obama began on Jan. 21. The president can
emerge from this teachable moment with a fresh centrist perspective that returns
him to the moderate, common-sense leader he always wanted to be. The State of
the Union this week gives him that unobstructed platform to do so in primetime.
Don’t bet against this man. He’s too good, and too dangerous.

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