Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty took another shot at the President today as possible political posturing for a 2012 run at taking Barack’s job.  In an interview with a conservative website called Newsmax (in a recent “poll” they’re claiming the country is now 40% conservative, 35% moderate, and 20% liberal; when in reality we’re probably 60% moderate, and 20/20 far left or right), Pawlenty said Obama “[projects] potential weakness”.  He went on to attack the president’s foreign relations and international indecisiveness, as well as call his domestic approach one of a “nanny-state mentality”.  Previous Obama criticisms from Pawlenty were always the latter, domestic policy ribbing, but with Pawlenty upping his public attacks to foreign status it’s becoming near certain he’ll be running in 2012.  Not that it wasn’t certain enough; earlier this year the MN governor announced he indeed would not be seeking a second term in that office, which drew lots of national attention.  He briefly summarized his quarrel with the current Health Care Reform proposals:

The diagnosis of the problem for the health care delivery system in the country was supposed to be cost-containment.  In other words, we need to make it more affordable for individuals and families, businesses and governmental entities. But, instead, they are now focused substantially on expanding access.

-D