Politics
Obama can only smile as GOP candidates hit at each other
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/AP
As the Republican presidential candidates continue to battle and improvement in the US economy is seen, President Obama is getting better public reviews, good news for his re-election bid.
With eight months to go before the presidential election, can it really be that long?, a lot could go wrong for President Obama.
The US recovery could falter and unemployment inch back up – perhaps as a result of European economic difficulties jumping the Atlantic. Gasoline prices could become even more burdensome on businesses and individual Americans. Disengaging from war in Afghanistan could prove more difficult than Pentagon planners figure. Obama may have to fulfill his very public pledge to “cover Israel’s back” in response to Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.
And of course there are always what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to call “unknown unknowns – things we do not know we don’t know.”
