Does Obama seem weak, slow to react, vulnerable ready to be taken down if the right rushes at him all at once? ...I'm not so sure.
Every great campaign loses a few battles but prevailing in the face of a loss generally leads to victory in the end.
Personalities such as Palin, Cheney and Scott Brown and the issues which the media pundits love to focus on are not the threat, they are the sleight of hand that distracts us as the SCOTUS hands the country to the corporations....
Seems to me like having pulled back his center which is healthcare to allow the right to advance,Obama now flanks the pundits on both the right and left.
To take the attacks of those on the right, the angry "teabaggers" who seem to be mostly mad about what the government is doing for them while they see the rich profiting off their bailout; we see that Elizabeth Warren has been all over the media co-opting that anger about the wall street banker bonus arrogance.
Her calm explanation of how breaking up the too big to fail banks, (with insurance companies, financial institutions et al to follow) so that they cease to be able to take the insurance against loss provided by taxpayers and use it to gamble with suggests all that fun they are having with our money is coming to an end.
This comes even as the SCOTUS acted to hand our system of government over to the corporations.
For the thoughtful student of Machiavelli, Obama's elevation of Elizabeth Warren in his economic advisor hierarchy is a master stroke.
For those on the left we may put all the "Republicans are resurgent" hype thats coming down aside and look at what Obama just accomplished in Haiti.
First he took the troops that were scheduled to go to Afghanistan and gave them a humanitarian purpose that will shape them in a very different way than sending them off to war.
Secondly he showed that nation building doesn't require the instillation of a corrupt government friendly to US corporate greed.
If the boots on the ground can learn to redefine their mission from killing to saving lives and then move from saving lives to saving the planet there is an interesting positional move in store for the military and its defense contractor infrastructure.
What I'm seeing is a natural political athelete fake right, fake left and go straight down the middle for some significant yardage.
Turns out in the long run Healthcare won't be fumbled the way we thought, it will be passed without all the insurance company garbage as an economic stimulus.
First to cover 30 million more people you need to build more healthcare infrastructure. That will come as infrastructure jobs stimulus for contractors.
Then you need to staff the new infrastructure and that means more jobs.
Then you need to make it accessible with mass transit and that means more jobs.
Possibly the additional healthcare investment will be justified by the need to do preventative rather than theraputic healthcare and be reinforced by the image of 70 people a day getting amputations when what they started out with could have been healed with an antibiotic.
Perhaps progressives will get their heads together in the huddle, fix the economy so it booms and get all this to work before the 2012 elections.