Will Obama be re-elected in 2012?

[richardhutnik]

badgenome said:

Armads said:

He did a lot to bring bipartisanship to the table, but republicans were having none of it.  It's not his fault, bipartisanship doesn't mean just giving the other party everything they want without putting up a fuss.  Obama gave a lot of concessions to republicans at first but they still did nothing for him so he dropped it altogether.

Your alternate universe sounds cool.

Obama has, on more than one occasion, tried to end a debate with a Republican by saying, "HURRRR STFU I WON ELECTION."

The idea of bipartisanship is NOT debating them.  It means coming together to deal with issues and reaching common solutions.   The fact people would bash Obama over what happened is because he has looked to attempt to do bipartisan and promised change.  Anyone ever bash the last president over not being bipartisan?  Of course not.  No one expected the last president to be bipartisan ANYTHING.   It was... either side with him, or you are wit the terrorists.  What I have seen is repeated efforts on the GOP side to derail this current administration.  They have NO interest in working with him, and do want to fail.  Places where Obama has gotten in trouble was where he attempted to reach out and do Republican policies, like agreeing to nuclear power and saying that more offshore drilling would be agreeable.  When it came to attempts at health care reform, there was NONE on the GOP side.  I am sorry, debate isn't the answer.  There is no debating stuff, and then winning, and the point won in the debate was what goes.  Try that with thre last administration.