I swear I almost laughed out loud when I read this. President Obama is asked in an interview what the biggest mistake of his presidency has been:
"When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well," the president said, "the mistake of my first term – couple of years – was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that’s important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."
Story telling is his biggest mistake? He’s been telling “stories” for 4 years, most of them fictional. It is his abysmal and clueless performance in office that’s been his biggest mistake. OK, poor performance probably isn’t a mistake, it’s, well, poor performance. Perhaps his biggest mistake was thinking he’s done well. No, that’s just ignorance and ego.
No his biggest mistake was concentrating on his legacy while he let the economy go to hell and now it’s all but unrecoverable (in his 1st term, which is all that matters to him). He continually told a story about how he and Sheriff Joe were “focused like lasers” on jobs and the economy.
And here we are.
But all of that is not why I almost laughed out loud.
How many times have you seen the left and Democrats claim that it isn’t the message that is the problem but how it is delivered?
The above quote is the Obama version of that very premise. You can’t instill a sense of unity, purpose and optimism when you’re continually taking away freedoms.
Cluebat for the left: it has nothing to do with delivery, it has to do with the fact that most Americans think your policies (and ideology, at least the part that continually calls for more expensive and intrusive government and sees government as the solution to all problems) suck.
It isn’t the “story”, okay?
Forward.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO