The Washington Post: Reports the following on the latest troubles faced by the 2nd Obama Term team, " Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.”.
Lets Get Real:
If the 2nd Obama term does become a lame duck it will be the fastest of the modern era, one would have to go back to Watergate and the Presidency of Richard Nixon for the celebration of a 2nd term win to fall apart so fast, the Watergate hearings started in early 1973. President Obama has been called the Liberal Reagan, at least Iran - Contra came at the end of 1986, two years in to the 2nd term, over all in the 2nd Term Reagan got through tax reform, and the INF Treaty with USSR, also Reagan's VP, Bush 41 was his successor, it was seen as a third Reagan term. Thus what should the Obama team do about Benghazi, well lets get brutal here folks, someone has to take the political fall, so President Obama has a choice, either he takes the blame and his Administration is dead in the Water or he throws Hillary Clinton under the bus, lets understand, if the Clinton's think that its a choice between Hillary Clinton and President Obama, then Obama will be thrown off the nearest cliff without a moments thought, and the Clinton's do not play by the rules. The question why did the State Department want ALL reference of terrorism removed from the talking points after the attack in Benghazi, was Hillary her own agent, or was she under pressure from the White House to create a false reality, lets recall the Campaign team had run that UBL was dead and so was Al Qaeda, the attack in Libya was a major problem on the PR front, thus they need to keep the story off the news in till after the election, thus the present problems. The Obama team can not afford to play by the Clinton play book, in that period Bill Clinton stalled, if Obama's stalls his domestic agenda is dead on the Hill, so to limit this mess the Obama team should follow the Reagan team, release everything early, get out in front of the story, even have POTUS as humble, that will be a new thing for Obama, limit the damage and go on, the one pause on that strategy folks is the role of POTUS before, during and after the Libyan attack, if he was a driving force for the talking points he might need to be censured by the US House, we shall see folks.
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