President Obama Takes a Page from Bill Clinton's Book

Has President Obama been talking to Bill Clinton ?  I would say, “yes,” because he is beginning to realize that his ultra-left policies will only lead to defeat in November. So, as Clinton did in 1994, Obama is shifting to the middle and right his position on issues of major importance to his Democratic Party.

In the past two days, he has asked for a review of his birth control program, which is very liberal in terms of what the majority of Americans would prefer, and he has released ten states from the No Child Left Behind program, in an indication that he may be willing to roll federal control for certain programs back to the states where most Americans think the control belongs.

Now I know that two actions from Barak Obama does not make a landslide, erasing his broken economic, fiscal and social programs, but it is a good indication that he will do whatever it takes to win in November, and that includes abandoning the left wing of his own Democratic Party in favor of courting the middle and independent voters, who will be decisive in the 2012 presidential election.

That his moves this week are also a movement toward the conservative wing of the Republican Party is another indication that President Obama knows that he is in trouble, no matter who the GOP candidate is, and that his policies are the reason he is likely to lose.

So, he is doing what any politician would do - he is changing his positions.

The one thing he will have to deal with, though, is that his attacks, especially on Mitt Romney, for choosing whatever position is expedient for the moment at hand, may backfire.

After all, anyone can change his mind.

But, making the change a reason for attack and innuendo that change makes a person unqualified to be president, which is not true,  could yet become another nail in the coffin of President Obama, come November.