On the WaPo's Ridiculous "Obama Shouldn't Run Again" Op-Ed

[Yeggo]

It's one thing for Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell to predict the president's political demise. It's another entirely to ignore recent history in order to do so:

http://conversation101.squarespace.com/presidential-election/2010/11/13/on-the-washington-posts-one-term-obama-op-ed.html

[dennis4868]

1. Incredible post...

By the way, the authors of the Obama hit piece are no liberals....they are Fox News democrats....Nuff said!

[bigtree]

2. political neophytes are likely to misread the last midterm - These clowns should know better

The figures that were provided in the rebuttal have been circulating since before the election. What gives with such dishonest criticism? Are they really that desperate to disrupt our Democratic party to mislead so egregiously?

from the rebuttal:

"Barack Obama’s weekly Gallup approval rating is 45% right now. At this point in the Gipper’s presidency, his was 43%. Bill Clinton, who was also coming off a crushing midterm defeat, was also at 43%. Among the independents, with whom Obama has “little credibility”, his approval (42%) fits neatly between Clinton’s (44%) and Reagan’s (40%).

If Scoen and Caddell want to be the latest to shovel dirt on top of this president, that’s fine. They may well end up being right. Past success is just as poor a predictor as past failure. I just wish they’d open a history book first."

[frazzled]

3. Why would anyone take Pat Caddell seriously?

He left the Democratic Party in 1988 and has been attacking it or predicting its death ever since. Doug Schoen, a Mark Penn partner, isn't much better.

Their article isn't even sincere: it's politically calculated trouble-making.

As for the blog to which you link, it's wrong to call this guested op-ed piece a part of the "liberal media stick(ing) a fork in the president." These men are anything but liberals, and op-eds having nothing to do with the newspapers that print them.