Though Obama “may lose control of Congress,” says columnist David Broder, he “can still storm back to win a second term in 2012.”
How does Broder suggest Obama go about it?
“Look back at FDR and the Great Depression. What finally resolved that economic crisis? World War II.”
Conceding the prospect of a new war is “frightening,” Broder goes on to list the rich rewards of
Obama’s emulating FDR.
“With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, (Obama) can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on. And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve…
“(T)he nation will rally around Obama because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century. If he can confront this threat and contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions, he will have made the world safer and may be regarded as one of the most successful presidents in history.”
Cynicism aside, what is wrong with Broder’s analysis?
at The American Conservative.
Carl Wicklander,
Regular Columnist, THL
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