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On October 31, he headlined, "The war recovery" saying:
"....Democrats have fallen into a peck of trouble and may lose control of Congress, but even they do, Obama can still storm back to win a second term in 2010."
However, economic conditions will test him, the nation "suffering from high and persistent unemployment, lagging investment, massive public and private debt, and a highly inefficient tax system." So far new growth hasn't been spurred, and if Obama can't do it, "he is unlikely to be reelected."
With that dilemma, Broder suggests an "obvious" solution, "but its implications are frightening." With America already waging three wars, against Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan's North and South Waziristan regions, he says "War and peace influence the economy," crediting WW II for ending the Great Depression, then adding:
"Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran's ambition to become a nuclear power (suggesting weapons with no proof), he 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."
Saying he's not "suggesting (Obama) incite a war to get reelected, he adds that the nation will rally around (him) because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in a young century." Again, no proof or the fact that, unlike America, Iran threatens no one and hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years. Broder's hyperbole, however, is that if Obama "contain(s) Iran's (legal) nuclear ambitions, he will have made the world safer and may be regarded as one of the most successful presidents in history."
A truly astonishment assertion and utter disconnect with reality. The man is senile. The US/Israeli/UK alliance (the real axis of evil) alone threaten world stability, peace, and perhaps survival, what the "dean" of establishment journalists won't suggest, not even hint.
At age 81, he's still atop the Beltway media food chain, appearing twice weekly in the WP, regularly as a TV pundit, moonlighting for huge speaking fees (calling it corrupting in 1995), paid for supporting power, not popular interests, common sense, or right over wrong.
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