the slogan obama won't want to run on

Walter Shapiro summarises the problem Obama will have if - as is very possible - the economy is still in the doldrums come 2012:

(It) is hard to get reelected on the slogan, "It Could Have Been So Much Worse."

I wonder what his slogan will be? After all, he can hardly use the same one again. "More Of The Same"?

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[ejoch]

what to get reelected on? could do a lot worse than read this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124596573543456401.html

It's possible he'll do all the things he's set out to do, but seems unlikely. And if he really was a fan of realpolitik he'd stay well away from the quagmire of Israel/Palestine and save his political capital for things than can actually be accomplished.