A Vengful Return to Obama the Enforcer (UPDATED 4:33 pm 25 January)

A return to “control” – the kind we did not really see during the 2008 election – is what the President has ordered up in reinstating David Plouffe in his former 2008 campaign status although under the aegis of the DNC.  As we have seen, this is a president that seeks to maintain control over all aspecs that relate to running the country and running campaigns.

But can the return to a now dated methodology possibly help? It is not as easy to present Obama in a new light to assuage fears.  And more contact and exposure to him will not necessairly work this time around. There was a great deal of contact and exposure in the first two months of his presidency and it seemed overdone.  We wanted him to get away from the microphone and the teleprompter and back to the important business of patching a sinking ship of state.

Then, too, since Obama’s win,  the iron fist beneath the velvet glove has been apparent far too often.  No other factor in focusing on this has been OFA, the sucessor organization to Organizanizing for Obama.  Tactics used in 2008 by OFO were divulged by  former WH Communications Director, Anita Dunn who served in a similar capacity with OFO. In an interview prior to her departure, she revealed that during the campaign, OFO bypassed  the media and communicated directly with the people thus developing more “control” over the message. [News Busters]

She outlined the development of the cult of personality around the candidate.  When the bubble in which he was encased was threatened, (such as overcoming feelling about Obama’s ties with “scary friends”  such as Bill Ayers) the campaign team simply set things up to divert the public’s attention.

Barack Obama was the best answer to the “too risky” argument…when they heard Barack Obama and when they saw Barack Obama, he didn’t sound scary. He didn’t sound risky.  He sounded like a president….the best answer to the argument that you couldn’t trust him was to listen to Barack Obama.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/candance-moore/2009/10/20/-anita-dunn-how-we-created-obama’s-cult-of-personality#ixzz0dcF7GWGI

After a summer of tea party opposition and town hall meetings; after a fall of rising opposition to health care reform and frustration with a dithering Obama; and after the anniversary of his first year in office that saw the loss in Massachusetts and a Supreme Court Ruling on campaign funding that favors Republicans, the President summoned David Ploufle, former 2008 head of the Obama election effort to return.  He will help assess why voters have turned against Obama and strategize campaigns for 2010 elections.  In short: the President is taking back control of  his perceived persona and his legislative initiatives. [Yahoo]

Already it is clear the Obama must go out into the country and reconnect with the people – he has said this himself when talking about the Massachusetts Massacre.  He must also sharpen his message. Especially with health care, he needs to make certain that people already with insurance know the benefits to them and others of his health care measures. [NY Times]

Obama has centralized his campaign for maximum control of the outcome.  After all, control has been his hallmark albeit confused and unfocused of late.  The dithering and study of issues is a good idea but not to the degree he took it.  Swifter, decisive action is expected of a President not delays due to incessant meetings with advisors to “get it right.”  Moderation in all things is always a winning position. This past year has been a politically dangerous learning curve for Obama.

In all of the above, the bottom line was not even whispered:   voters – even the ones who voted for him – have been  frustrated and angry by one big lie of his: that he was a centrist, middle of the road candidate. He is very, very left of left. THIS has peeled away trust about him and has been the underpinning of  public rejection of  his policies and legislation. This is the reason there was talk of “death panels” in the health care legislation – fear that they might be hidden somewhere between the lines or that they could easily be added in the future.  Obama and not the imagination of the voters is responsible for this.  He and his henchmen will never admit this.  The strategy of making fun of people with this or any other opposing view failed and enflamed.  An instructive comeback always gets farther – on both sides of an argument.

We have only to look back  and reflect on the last TV interview Anita Dunn made before her WH departure and the most stunning revelation she made: that he election machine purposely styled a program to create a cult of personality around Obama and whenever something “scary” came up about his past and /or affiliations, public attention was cleverly diverted from it.  This is deceipt of the first order.  A candidate should be who and what he is; not what is scripted.  No wonder we don’t recognize the man in the White House and that for which he stands.

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