As for President Obama turning to ex-President Clinton for assistance in his campaign, I couldn’t be happier! President Clinton is a wise and intelligent man who was a great president (despite his proclivities). President Obama can learn a great deal from him, especially how to handle the GOP. With all the nut jobs that the GOP has running, President Obama is pretty much a shoo in; however, knowing what to do once he IS re-elected to bring this country back in line is very important. I wonder if ex-President Clinton is eligible to run as Obama’s vice president (or at least be one of his cabinet members). Let’s keep our fingers crossed that he will be the guiding light for our president in the upcoming year or so before the elections. I have great respect for him and know that our President also feels the same way.

Given that no prior campaign message easily translates to leadership, the stakes to correct for the anomaly in the economy have been rather high for this Presidency. Now, who is without a sin, let him or her cast the first stone! Although polls indicate Obama must not run on his domestic economic performance or records, else he looses; the reality is: Obama has a lot going for him in many other areas of political economy that the campaign can allude to: How about the effort to court the Asian market? How about bringing the Iraq war to an end? How about the fight against medical inflation from the health care reform bill? How about Obama’s conviction and efforts in making deals, an essential aspect of Democratic leadership that is absent from Tea Party and stone-walling Republicans?

What the campaign managers have to do is to drum up an unconventional diatribe to becloud any proposed promises of Mitt Romney. Talking with President Clinton is not only a wise move, it is a way to conduct an audit of who is where with respect to canvassing for votes in those battle ground states. For the records : 1) Obama’s Foreign Policy successes cannot be matched by Romney’s promise (Listen to his comments on Iran and Israel); 2)Justify the nature of economic failures as endemic of a capitalistic system’s wave of boom and burst dynamics that Presidents have little or no control over. Talk to a Historical Economist. Read the February 1937 Economica Journal article by F.A. Von Hayek, Economics and Knowledge.(Now fashion the shortcomings of Keynesian Economics as espoused by Hayek in this article, in a campaign message that repositions Obama in a more favorable light); 3) Change the slogan of hope to, here and now, highlighting the message: the devil you know is better than a saint closely associated with Wall Street double dealing; 4)Challenge the flip-flop status of Romney and insist that the health care bill is the best thing that has ever happened to this country; not withstanding the naysayers and Romney’s failures in Massachusetts that has led to the Federal Government picking up the tab; and 5) Create a path for campaign that is not too tied up with domestic issues: unemployment problems.

Many progressives will vote Obama and he has my vote any day. Keep a good spirit!