Could Democrats Give Obama Trouble In 2012? War In Afghanistan Is Key. -- Christian Science Monitor
Most Democrats oppose the war in Afghanistan. Amid talk of a longer US presence there, Obama runs the risk of alienating his base. A damaging primary challenge from the left is not unthinkable.
As Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg was leaving a Monitor breakfast last week, he was asked about the possibility that President Obama might face a Democratic primary challenge in 2012.
Mr. Greenberg’s two-word answer: “Watch Afghanistan.”
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My Comment: My brother was a big supporter of President Obama's election in 2008. Two years later .... he is both angry and disappointed that U.S. forces are still in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay prison is still open, a greater expansion of the terror war to other countries (Yemen, Pakistan, etc.) is now occurring, and the U.S. military is expanding and growing even more so than during the Bush years.
I am sure that he is not the only Democrat who feels that way. President Obama has changed since 2008 .... and while his rhetoric still clings to the philosophical viewpoint that he has always had, his actions have been completely opposite. Why is this so .... I call this reality .... which when I tell my brother annoys him even more. As I told him a few days ago, to find allies President Obama will go where he has to go, and if they are Republicans .... so be it. But there will be a cost for this policy, and that cost will be less than enthusiastic support from traditional and liberal Democrats come the 2012 elections .... starting with my brother.
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