Barack Obama is in denial

Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | January 26, 2010 | Toby Harnden

[Schnucki]

Barack Obama is in trouble. His signature health care reform has been doomed by the Democrats losing their Senate super-majority. He needs to reconnect with ordinary Americans, his advisers tell him. So what does he do? He does a long interview with Diane Sawyer, the new ABC News anchor, in which he states that his big mistake was “we started worrying more about getting the policy right than getting the process right”.

Then the White House pushes out the disastrous Valerie Jarrett – who recently and hilariously described the Obama administration as “speaking truth to power” by bashing Fox News – to tell Politico that “there’s no one more frustrated than President Obama” and that the Scott Brown Massachusetts massacre was, er, nothing to do with Obama. “I don’t think it was directed at Barack Obama,” she said. “In fact, Senator Brown said himself he didn’t run against the President.”

This comes after Representative Marion Berry of Georgia, announcing he would not fight an election he would almost certainly lose in November, revealed that Obama had told Blue Dog conservative Democrats that the difference between 1994 and 2010 was that “You got me.”

So which is it? It’s nothing to do with Obama but then again it’s all about him? Good luck with that message in November.

Democrats who (unlike Obama) face re-election in November are noting that the President campaigned for candidates in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts – all of which he won comfortably in 2008 – but they still bombed.

The Obama line that Massachusetts is about disgust with “process” not policy and the Jarrett line that it is about some vague unfocused frustration lead to the inevitable conclusion that this White House just doesn’t get it.

As William McGurn in the WSJ points out, the central

[earlJam]

His signature health care reform has been doomed by the Democrats losing their Senate super-majority.

I think the opposite is also true.

Democrats LOST their Senate super-majority BECAUSE of Obama's signature health care reform plan.

[MissMagnolia]

We need a parody song: Barky singing “You got me, babe” to the tune of Sonny & Cher’s “I got you, babe”.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

He needs to reconnect with ordinary Americans, his advisers tell him.

More cowbell, Barky!

[paulycy]

He's starting to stay in here 'cause it's safe and warm and he can just listen to the sound of his own voice, unlike the real world we bitter, clinging citizens live in.

[PGR88]

“In Denial”

Comes right after “in a state of confusion” and right before “in deep sh*t.”

[texteacher]

“He needs to reconnect with ordinary Americans, his advisers tell him.”

Therein lies the problem. Obama has NEVER been connected to ordinary Americans. How do you reconnect that which never was?

[dalebert]

maybe the britts can find his student visa

[catpuppy]

Representative Marion Berry of Georgia

Georgia? Try Arkansas.

[flowerplough]

Therein lies the problem. Obama has NEVER been connected to ordinary Americans. How do you reconnect that which never was?

Like the article sez, this White House just doesn’t get it. This President just doesn’t get it. Everywhere he’s been, people liked him and helped him and did stuff for him and bought stuff for him. Why aren’t people liking him and waiting in line to help him now? What’s changed?

[DarthVader]

The problem is Obozo connected with the anger most Americans have had with our government and political class for awhile. Now that anger is being projected at him and the Democrats as finally the worm has turned and Americans are becoming aware of him. His narcissism will hold him captive to failed policies and ideals thus securing his doom.

[jonno]

...Obama had told Blue Dog conservative Democrats that the difference between 1994 and 2010 was that “You got me.”

Just incredible...

[lapsus calami]

 

 

That's something I noticed in a big way during the 2008 election. When McCain was traveling around during his run in the primaries, he appeared at a lot of small venues for a while, sometimes just small rooms with a podium (maybe). Friend of mine attended one of those for the heck of it because it was close by and he had the time. Small place, a number of people standing because there was no room for any more chairs. McCain did his spiel, then stuck around for a while afterwards, walked around and visited with the attendees. Contrast that with the Zero who kept people at arm's length, physically and verbally - no mixing it up with the unwashed for him. That incident with Joe the Plumber probably demonstrated why he shied from that. The disparity between the two candidates was glaring. For all his faults and shortcomings, at the base level McCain is a people person, while the Zero is not and cannot be. I think it goes far towards explaining why Zero is off in the ditch as a "leader" at a personal level, groping around in the dark like he's doing - no tangible relationship with public and who we are. That's not a good place for any sort of elected official to be in - disaster is sure to follow.

 

 

 

[presently no screen name]

BHO is NOT for America. Why would he interact w/American voters? That’s not what he is about. He is NOT for us - and by ‘us’ I don’t mean conservatives, I mean Americans!

[MortMan]

The bubble would necessarily include TOTUS, too.

[DarthVader]

“That’s not a good place for any sort of elected official to be in - disaster is sure to follow.”

Other leaders have followed this path too. Examples are King Louis XVI, Czar Nicholas II, Nicolai Ceaucescu, Salvadore Allende, King Charles I of England. Contemplate their end.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Well yeah, of course. But he couldn't even clench his teeth and fake it - he'd be much more effective at sticking us in the back if he could be more personable with his victims. I am thanking the Heavens that he doesn't have such a gifting.

 

 

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[shield]

Along with the wheeling, dealing and the BRIBES...

[mojitojoe]