Obama jumping gun on 2012 politicking


STEVE HUNTLEY
May 13, 2011 12:24AM


Any doubt that the White House is in full campaign mode evaporated with President Obama’s immigration speech the other day. Far from trying to find a way to build bipartisan consensus on a contentious issue, Obama turned to electioneering to whip up Hispanic voters for his re-election drive next year.

Someone seeking to build bridges wouldn’t ridicule the other side as Obama did in mocking Republicans as maybe wanting “alligators in the moatâ€