Obama has a chance to capture the political center

If he succeeds he will win in 2012

All he has to do is satisfy a few benchmarks:

1. Dow Jones Industrial Average beats Bush's best
2. Unemployment beats Bush's worst
3. Inflation stays under control
4. Hard-left agenda items, like Card-Check and Fairness doctrine, get forgotten
5. Iraq is left as a stable American ally
6. Afghanistan is "won"; the Taliban coughing up OBL and the rest of his merry crew counts as winning
7. Health care stays private (He should work with McCain on this; it's about the only good idea McCain had)

Now it gets harder:

1. Iran ceases to be a threat to Israel, directly, or indirectly.
2. Russia gets stopped before Ukraine goes under
3. Missile defense becomes a real deterrent (we're getting close)

And harder again:

1. Stop Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from screwing up his reelection chances. Where they aren't, the electorate is.

My advice to Obama:

Study why Jimmy Carter failed and Ronald Reagan succeeded.

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