It is all the talk in the media now that Obama's approval numbers are on the rise and he is making a comeback. Even Joan Walsh of OS wrote about it earlier in the week.

The turning point the experts say: the Tucson speech. The non-political, politcal speech and event that marshalled in the beginning of the 2012 campaign.

What most people are missing though is the signifigance of what all this means. The REAL story isn't that Obama is making a comback at all. In fact, he isn't. He is just giving the American People what they want: conservatism.

For the first two years of his presidency Obama didn't really govern as much as he dictated, bullied and steamrolled anyone or anything that got in his way. He pushed his agenda regardless of the will of the American People and single handedly created a new political movement in America: the TEA Party.

His brand of Chicago politics was not well received and he was met with extreme resistance both on the Hill and in fly-over country.  However, the opposition, the GOP, did not have the numbers in Congress to do anything about it and they could not stand in his way of anything. The Dems were running the show and they had the numbers to do it.

So with little care as to what the country wanted they forged ahead with their liberal/progressive ideas, the People be damned. Obama, for his part, allowed them to run cover for him so that he could stay out of the fray for the most part and let the Dems take the abuse. It didn't work.

The mid-term elections in November 2010 would be a referendum on Obama and the Dems in Congress and the People spoke loud and clear. The result was an absolute repudiation of the policies of the last two years and the balance of power moved back into the hands of the GOP.

Obama called it a "shellacking" and he looked like a whipped dog when he gave that speech from  The White House. He looked defeated and he was. The only remaining question now was what would he do about it. Would he dig in and fight back or would he pull a "Clinton" and move quickly to embrace the change?

Well, now we have our answer: he pulled a Clinton. For the next two years there will be disagreements between him and the GOP but he will make sure that they aren't BIG disagreements and he will do his best to coddle the GOP and make it seem like he has learned from his mistakes.

He will look to embrace centrist and even right wing ideas so that he can appear to be a President of the People. Right now he is only focused on one thing: re-election.

Obama is embracing Big Business and will most likely start to move in the direction of the fiscal conservatives. He is reshaping his team to look more like Wall Street than Main Street and he wants to appeal to the big campaign donors out there because he needs to start raking in the money for the 2012 election.

Without a doubt, the results of the November 2010 election proved that the America People do NOT want progressive ideas to take hold here in America and they fought back against them. Obama, for a while, will act like he got the message and put those ideas on the back-burner. He now realizes that Obama 1.0, while ambitious, was a failure.

He is still a progressive and aims to institute more and more of the progressive agenda when he gets a chance but for now he needs to fly below the radar. His first goal is to make the American People believe that he is not really an idealogue. If and when he gets reelected he will then have lame duck status and will not be beholden to anyone. THAT is when he'll be at his most dangerous.

Obama 1.0 was a fantastic failure but the "bugs" were eventually worked out. Obama 2.0  is a Trojan that once implanted, will be the virus that really causes the havoc.