The snippet below is from a column by Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. She talks about Obama basically losing the trust of many Americans and being out of touch with them. She talks about people feeling used, played for a fool by a con artist, tricked by the trickster. [My words, not hers.] It'll be very interesting to see if he wins re-election, as apparently he thinks he will.
I find myself asking the question: did Obama even try to figure what was on our minds? Did he even care, or was he so intent on completing his uberliberal agenda, and in his arrogance believed he could sell what he was doing to us and we'd love him for it. That's the way it looks to me.
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In terms of the broad electorate, I'm not sure he really has a relationship. A president only gets a year or two to forge real bonds with the American people. In that time a crucial thing he must establish is that what is on his mind is what is on their mind. This is especially true during a crisis.
From the day Mr. Obama was sworn in, what was on the mind of the American people was financial calamity—unemployment, declining home values, foreclosures. These issues came within a context of some overarching questions: Can America survive its spending, its taxing, its regulating, is America over, can we turn it around?
That's what the American people were thinking about.
But the new president wasn't thinking about that. All the books written about the creation of economic policy within his administration make clear the president and his aides didn't know it was so bad, didn't understand the depth of the crisis, didn't have a sense of how long it would last. They didn't have their mind on what the American people had their mind on.
Not-So-Smooth Operator - WSJ.com
I find myself asking the question: did Obama even try to figure what was on our minds? Did he even care, or was he so intent on completing his uberliberal agenda, and in his arrogance believed he could sell what he was doing to us and we'd love him for it. That's the way it looks to me.
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In terms of the broad electorate, I'm not sure he really has a relationship. A president only gets a year or two to forge real bonds with the American people. In that time a crucial thing he must establish is that what is on his mind is what is on their mind. This is especially true during a crisis.
From the day Mr. Obama was sworn in, what was on the mind of the American people was financial calamity—unemployment, declining home values, foreclosures. These issues came within a context of some overarching questions: Can America survive its spending, its taxing, its regulating, is America over, can we turn it around?
That's what the American people were thinking about.
But the new president wasn't thinking about that. All the books written about the creation of economic policy within his administration make clear the president and his aides didn't know it was so bad, didn't understand the depth of the crisis, didn't have a sense of how long it would last. They didn't have their mind on what the American people had their mind on.
Not-So-Smooth Operator - WSJ.com
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