I try to read a variety of things every day and some articles actually counter, to a point, other articles.........the things that seems to stay uniform is how badly Obama is doing in polls.  This was quite positive for the tea party though :)!  The suggestions made made me chuckle considering who they recommended it to and given the total inflexibility of Obama (and how well he handles advise that runs counter to how he thinks things work). 

8/4/2011 

If president Obama needed any more indication of who much his public support has eroded, he need look no further than a recent memorandum of sorts published in the New York Times by former President Bill Clinton's pollster, Stanley Greenberg.  Listen to Greenberg, whose progressive polling firm partners with Clinton strategist James Carville, advise Obama and Democrats on what his latest round of polls and focus groups reveal are their only hope to survive politically, given the current reality: 

• “Voters in the developed world are turning away from Democrats, Socialists, liberals and progressives.”
• “Voters feel ever more estranged from government—and they associate Democrats with government.”
• “If they are to win trust, and votes, Democrats must show they are as determined as the Tea Party movement to change the rules of the game."
• “This distrust of government and politicians is unfolding as a full-blown crisis of legitimacy [and] sidelines Democrats and liberalism."
• Greenberg says that his public opinion research now reveals that voters believe, “Government rushes to help the irresponsible and does little for the responsible."
• To win, Democrats must “advocate policies that would control the borders and address problems of undocumented workers,” and voters want to “see strong enforcement at the border and in the workplace, and the expulsion of troublesome undocumented immigrants."
• “Finally, progressives have to be serious about reducing the country’s long-term deficits” because “the deficit matters to people and has real meaning and consequences.”

To recap, after analyzing his reams of public opinion research, President Clinton's pollster just advised the most progressive presidnet in American history to mimic the Tea Party's resolve, stop government from rewarding the irresponsible over the responsible, crack down on illegal immigration and get tough on border enforcement, stop illegal immigrants from being hired over legal citizens, and deport violent or law-breaking illegal immigrants, and to top it all off, Obama and the Democrats should stop the government’s profligate spending spree and bring down deficits.

Crickets chirping.

read the rest of the article here:  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45290