How Obama could get re-elected. I had an idea how Obama could win the election the other day, and it seemed so easy that I almost didn’t want to voice it, but I knew no one would do it, and I know that no one reads my blogs anyway. The idea is based on the argument that Republicans are currently making that Obama will do anything and say anything to win this upcoming election. Republicans argue that he doesn’t have a record to run on, so we may see a whole lot of desperation on his part to get you to believe anything and everything about him. They also say that Obama will do and anything and everything he can think of to get you to think less of his presumed opponent Mitt Romney. If the former point is true, and Obama does reach a point of desperation, he may want to consider having George W. Bush christen the new Trade Center.
President Obama would, of course, be the first choice to christen this building once it’s completed. Obama could let it be known that he would be honored to christen this building, and he could talk about the glory of the new building, and the symbol of regrowth, and how he chose to see this as a symbol of what he wants to do for the country between 2012 and 2016. He could milk it for weeks, holding press conferences and on site speeches. Then, at the last second, say with one week to go before the christening, he could say, “I have decided to select an honoree to stand in my place. I have selected George W. Bush, for I believe that no man has done more to thwart terrorism in the past decade. While I may not agree with some of the tactics his administration employed in fighting terrorism, now is not a time for such bickering. It is a time to commemorate what I believe is an historic achievement worthy of honor. Let The New Trade Center be the symbol for our new era, and let George W. Bush be the man to symbolically lead us into that era.”
Now I know what you’re thinking, Obama would never do this, no politician would. Imagine if he did though. I’m sure Obama would use different words, and he wouldn’t be so effusive with his praise for the former president of another party, but if Obama and his speechwriters could somehow construct language that kept his arguments against the Bush administration in place while allowing the former president to christen the new Trade Center, I think Obama would be almost unbeatable in the 2012 election.
Imagine how difficult it would be for Republicans to pin their narratives on him from that point forward. Imagine the ads. “Everything they told you about this man is wrong. He is a generous man, a good man, a man that promised you he would not be a blue-state president, or a red-state, but he would be a president for the people.” Imagine the swing voters saying, in their exit poll interviews, “He and I (Obama) don’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues, but after that thing he did for Bush at the Trade Center, I got the idea that he was a good man, and I started to think that a lot of his detractors were lying about him.”
If Obama is going to get desperate, and his opponents think he might if his poll numbers don’t improve, think about what a home run this could be. He would be seen in the same light as Reagan on this one issue, in that Reagan invited Carter to welcome the Iranian Hostages home, even though Reagan was in office when it happened. Obama might trouble his base a little with such a move, but who is his base going to vote for if not Obama? It will never happen of course, but it could be his Sister Souljah moment if he did it right.
