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| Campaigning tests Obama's staying |
| Campaigning tests Obama's staying power
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-May-2012
7:27:21 AM |
| By the time President Obama took the stage at the Fox Theater here, he was in the 18th hour of a 19-hour day. His tie was still knotted to the top as he launched into his stump speech, attacking his opponent's record and defending his own. "I still believe in you," he said, "and I hope you still believe in me."
That is a proposition he is testing four years after the political winds converged behind his improbable journey to the White House. In marathon trips across the nation, he seeks to justify the faith supporters invested in him and earn it back. Sometimes he sounds like the outsider of 2008 running against an establishment that he now sits atop.
With Election Day five months off, the campaign increasingly appears to consume Mr. Obama's days and his White House, shaping his schedule, his message and many of his decisions. He is running against himself as much as Mitt Romney, or rather two versions of himself - one the radical ruining the country conservatives see, and the other the savior of the country he promoted last time around and has struggled to live up to.
The protesters waiting outside a campaign fund-raiser in Denver last week were probably never supporters. But some of their signs cut close to the bone. "Out of Hope, Ready for Change," one read. "Obama's Blvd. of Broken Promises," said another.
As he blitzes battleground states, the president betrays no signs of self-doubt or worry even though his approval rating in New York Times/CBS News polls has exceeded 50 percent only once in two years. Like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before him, he powers through adversity with defiant resolve, hoping to prove that the doubters underestimated him.
Flying on Air Force One last week, Mr. Obama read to aides a letter he had received from a 90-year-old man from Florida who said he was looking for work in sales and marketing. "I'm rounding third but not ready to slide into home," the man wrote the president.
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