Aiming for Cogency, RE: The Obie Factor

Apologies for my perennial lack of cogency. Allow me to try to win y'all over again. A wise person once suggested that I aim my critique high; so I call attention to Obama’s current very damnable political calculation. It’s helpful, in this regard, to examine recent history.
For those whose conception of history doesn't transcend the most recent Lindsey Lohan saga, let's go back a few years.

William Jefferson Clinton, our God-Blessed 42nd American President, is a good case to analyse. Clinton successfully “out-Republicaned the Republicans,” on a wide range of issues. He ended “Welfare as we know it.” Clinton declared the era of Big Government OVER. In reality, of course, he massively escalated the Drug War. That led inexorably to a massive increase in prison construction and the rate of incarceration all throughout the ‘90s. “Bill,” as he was affectionately known by many of the Liberals he snookered - and I voted for Slick Willy in '92, much to my chagrin - waged a long and squalid series of “Drive-by wars” in the Third World and the Balkans. Clinton actually carried out a larger number of military interventions than did George Herbert Walker Bush, putting the lie to the bumper sticker slogan, “When Clinton Lied, No one Died.” Total bullshit; many, many thousands died. Madeline Albright proudly told Leslie Stahl that the price of 500,000 Iraqi kids dead from the brutal sanctions regime was “worth it.” You get the idea. From a political perspective, it worked, at least until the American Public learned the name “Monica Lewinsky.”

So now we get President Barack Obama, who appears to be out-Bushing the Bushies. But unlike the Clinton scenario, I strongly doubt Obama will win over hearts and minds among the Right Wing Nuts he now literally panders to. Bubba was a genuine good ol’ boy, his Oxford years notwithstanding; Barack exudes Harvard Law. Obama may emulate neocon policies till he’s green in the face, but he won’t achieve a notable level of support from the Tea Partiers, no matter how reactionary he behaves, for reasons that should be obvious. Well, maybe he can permanently bleach his skin, Michael Jackson style.

But Barack WILL lose the support of those who voted for him. Eventually, his tilt to the right will become so flagrant, so odious, that even those who now continue to rationalize, to obfuscate, and defend him at all costs will be forced from sheer disgust into apathy. An epidemic of indifference among the Dems and Independents who believed in the change Obama touted could prove devastating to the Pres in 2012.
I don’t have the gift of prophecy, but I see disaster at the polls for Obama as a distinct possibility. I guess that would be a negative development in a few specified areas, considering Obama has supported extending unemployment benefits, and come out against Arizona’s “SB 1070.” Remember what happened to Gore ten years ago - and not, contrary to a lot of hogwash spread by Gore-supporters, because of Ralph Nader’s candidacy. Basically though, why should I care if Obama wants to sabotage his own re-election prospects!?!