Posted on 2/3/2010, 6:27:43 PM by pissant
Is Barack Obama just too complex for voters to figure out? That was the premise behind the New York Times's Sunday Week in Review lead story by Richard Stevenson,“The Muddled Selling of the President.”
Stevenson denied Obama was a liberal (despite his push for government-supervised health care and $787 billion in “economic stimulus” spending), suggesting he was too “complex” for such a label. Further, he wondered if Obama's recent political struggles means it's no longer “possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?”
On this much, President Obama’s friends and foes could agree: He eludes simple labels.
Yes, he’s a liberal, except when he’s not. He’s antiwar, except for the one he’s escalating. He’s for bailouts, but wants to rein in the banks. He’s concentrating ever-more power in the West Wing, except when he’s being overly deferential to Congress. He’s cool, except when he’s fighting-hot.
In a world that presents so many fast-moving and intractable problems, nuance, flexibility, pragmatism -- even a full range of human emotions -- are no doubt good things. But as Mr. Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address on Wednesday night with an appeal to transcend partisan gamesmanship, he was plaintively testing a broader proposition: Is it possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?
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I don’t get it.
Them damn dumbass “voters” again..
John F’n Kerry will come explain the nuance for you.
Personally, I think I'm smart enough to understand the guy. He's a BS artist. Pure and simple.
These people are so arrogant and certain of their superiority they'll go to any lengths of stupidity to come with excuses for their failures.
i am getting really tired of the lame stream media telling we the people that we are too stupid to understand oblabo and his plans. they want us to shut up and sit down and do whatever we are told by those “smart people” in d.c. and i for one am sick of it.
If you need to spin someone’s personality in politics its because he IS clearly understood.
End of story.
we have him figured out, totaaly
Whenever the explaination is: “It’s just too complicated for you to understand.” That pegs the BS meter and bends the needle, (yeah, mine is still analog).
It reminds me when gas prices started to go crazy at the beginning of the last oil bubble. Freepers would come here and say: “Oil pricing is just too complicated for you to understand.” Which really meant: “Speculation is picking your pocket.”
The higher the media places Obama on the pedestal, the much harder the fall will be and like humpty-dumpty, NO ONE will be able to put him back together.
Wow. I just threw up in my mouth a little.
So just to clarify... the NY Slimes is suggesting that the reason I see PO__S as an inexperienced, incompetent, floundering, marxist dictator wannabe, is due to his “complex pragmatism.”
What color is the sky in these people’s world?
“Is Barack Obama just too complex for voters to figure out?”
No, the American voter has simply figure out, they cannot fix stupid.
“LIAR” about sums it up nicely.
Of all the adjectives they used to cover Obama’s abject incompetence, had they said Obama is “special”, that I would agree.
Too simple an ideologue is 0bummer, methinks.
Chauncy Gardner Syndrome
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