Obama Is Back!

Is the Barack Obama that we’ve been waiting to see for three years on his way back? For several days now, through several speeches, the over-thinking lecturer who exasperated his supporters with his inability to connect with the electorate’s mentality and with his endless search for compromise with his Republican and tea party adversaries who, for their part, were only interested in defeating him in 2012, has stepped aside to be replaced by the Barack Obama of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Like Roosevelt, who never hesitated to name his adversaries before Congress, Barack Obama has finally decided to step to the front and name the individuals who prefer to shoot down any hope of job creation rather than see the 44th president reap the benefits of the program he announced a few days ago. Yesterday, Republican Majority Leader of Congress Eric Cantor declared that he wouldn’t even let the job law come to a vote. “I’d like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and what in this jobs bill he doesn’t believe in,” Obama shot back, full of a passion that we’d long since forgotten, during a visit to the city where we saw President Kennedy assassinated. A few days earlier, Obama criticized the five-dollar fee that Bank of America is going to start charging for all debit card purchases.

Obama has undoubtedly been startled into action by the fact that 58 percent of Americans don’t believe he will be reelected. The only ray of hope left for him is that Congress is even more unpopular than him. Only 14 percent of Americans, according to a poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, have a favorable opinion of it. That’s a record (if we can call it that). Even if 61 percent of Americans disapprove of the way he’s handling the economy, 76 percent have a negative opinion of Republican ideas in Congress. Obama reminds us greatly of another hugely unpopular Democratic president, but one who was excellent at attacking Republicans: Harry Truman. The president has barely 13 months left to win back his electorate, who are disillusioned by his inability to attack the GOP full throttle. Perhaps the time to pull out the big guns has finally arrived.