President Obama cannot seem to make peace with the liberal representatives of his party since the passage of health care reform. This weekend Obama stupidly made the construction of the Ground Zero mosque front and center, forcing his party's members to take a position on the issue in which 70% of Americans disagree with him.
Obama isn't the only divisive tongue. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is as much to blame as the President himself in dividing him from his base. A few weeks ago Gibbs acknowledged on a morning talk show that the Dems could potentially lose the house in November, much to Nancy Pelosi's chagrin. A week ago, he stated that the "professional left" were in no way representative of liberals (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013227-503544.html).
In all these situations, the White House attempted to backtrack, which only made matters worse. Gibbs was only trying to energize the base. Gibbs may have spoken "inartfully." Obama only stated that Muslims had the right to construct a mosque anywhere in America. He did not state that they should build it there.
No amount of spin can hide the fact that at a time when Democrats are desperately trying to localize the midterm election by talking about their very conservative opponents, the White House is making it increasingly difficult for them. Of course, this is extremely heartening to Republicans, who will continue to highlight the disastrous national economic policies, health care debacle as well as any unpopular, divisive comment the White House throws their way.
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