Obama internal polling must be awful

By Ed Randazzo

Another initiative by Obama to draw attention away from his dismal performance in office.

Yesterday, the president sought to grab the headlines by delivering a policy address in which he endorsed a key Palestinian statehood demand, Did he think that this would help him keep the 78% of the Jewish vote he garnered in 2008? Not hardly.

The president’s call for a Palestinian state based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War seemed to place him on the side of the Palestinians at the starting point of what he hopes will be a new round of peace talks.

I’m certain the Israeli’s were not pleased. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu, who is set to meet with Obama on Friday, said in a statement that while Israel “appreciates” Obama’s  commitment to peace, the prime minister essentially wants Obama to retract his remarks.

In the U.S., the policy shift could pose a problem for Obama with Jewish voters and donors.

So why did Obama do this?

It appears to me that his internal polling is telling him that running on his record of acheivements in office will net him a stunning defeat. He has apparently decided to act as though he is the challenger, not the incumbent president. So his game is to stay on the television screens day and night and open so many cans of worms that people may forget his abysmal domestic record and his lack of leadership skills.

Expect more smoke, mirrors and lights in the days to come.