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Monday, 10 November 2014

Mr. President, Let Me Be Clear

photo courtesy Whitehouse.gov

Some things are so predictable you can set your watch by them, especially when it comes to Liberals. Appearing on Face the Nation yesterday President Obama blamed his party’s mid-term election losses on “a failure of politics” because “we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we're trying to do and why this is the right direction”. In other words he believes he is doing everything right but we’re just too stupid to realize it; all he needs to do is dumb down the explanation enough for us simple bumpkins to catch onto his greatness.


This argument is invariably the one used by politicians, all of them but especially Democrats, who have lost an election. They lose because they fail to ‘get out the message’, it’s never because their message was heard and rejected. Maybe the voters haven’t been successful in getting the message out there to the President. Here, let me fix that.    (continue reading)

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