The Road to the 2012 Presidential Election

The appointment of Secretary Daley to be the new Obama Chief of Staff is the first brick in the re-election plan of President Obama, as noted in the Guardian article the former Commerce Secretary was opposed to Obama Care, the pivot to the centre by President Obama can be seen his words when he introduced his new Chief of Staff, “ Few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to this job. He served as a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet as Commerce Secretary. He took on several other important duties over the years on behalf of our country. He’s led major corporations. He possesses a deep understanding of how jobs are created and how to grow our economy. And needless to say, Bill also has a smidgen of awareness of how our system of government and politics works. You might say it is a genetic trait. ” Thus the Obama White House for the next two years will be about jobs, jobs and jobs, also getting President Obama re-elected, the joke at the end that politics is Daley trait comes from the fact that the Mr Daley’s father was the respected and feared Mayor of Chicago, if you want hand to hand combat in politics you go to Chicago, its in the blood. The question is and lets be clear by this can Mr Daley take Obama by the coattails and drag him to the centre, will the ego of the President allow himself be moved, it wont be easy, Obama has had a Democratic Congress for the first two years of his term, can he throw former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the wolves as he runs away form the left of his base, does he have the pragmatic nature of a Kennedy and Reagan.