Can He Find His Voice?

Is president Obama playing possum or is the real battle over? This is a concern by many voters almost a year before the November 2012 presidential election.

The upcoming September eighth presidential speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress is causing some in the Washington beltway to nervously wonder what the president is going to say, and if the president does not offer a big bold plan to increase employment, would he run the risk of causing many Americans to become tone deaf to his message or plans?

If he offers the same intellectual highbrow speech or plan that is over the head of the average Joe or Jane citizen it could back fire, Obama already is having a problems convincing some that he is a willing and able fighter on the behalf of the people, and not since his March 2008 speech on race has there been as much hype or concern about what he will say or do.

Obama was perceived to be a strong fighter during his 2007-08 campaign run, but three years later that perception has come under serious attack by some of his most loyal defenders. With unemployment stagnant at 9.1 percent and zero job growth in August 2011 it is affecting the Obama brand. 

Consumer confidence is at an all time low and what appears to be the administrations inability to connect with a large segment of the American public is now (according to different national polls) having a strenuous negative affect on the president’s re-election campaign.    

President Obama’s latest speech before union workers in Detroit, MI on Labor Day 2011 is by all accounts a foreshadowing of his upcoming national speech and he appeared to show a new - fresh willingness to stand against the tea party members of congress and their regular desire to say no to any compromise.  Some are still worried that the presidents speech or plan will offer the same rhetoric and he will cave and offer more concessions to the Republicans and Wall Street leaving the middle class Americans and the jobless with very little hope to latch onto.

K Gerard Thomas