Posted on 09/22/2010 7:51:41 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats.
Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s "just turned against us—same as with Obama." As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public." Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama.
Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made by Republicans -and by Democrats. Video courtesy of Fox News. .Mr. Mondale says it's time for the president "to get rid of those teleprompters and connect" with voters. Another of Mr. Obama's clear errors has been to turn over the drafting of key legislation to the Democratic Congress:
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He’s still alive?
Obama can’t connect with us, he doesn’t speak our language!
et tu, Fritzie? That’s gonna leave a mark.
The “Won” can’t “relate” to me.....
He’s a gay moslem.
“He’s still alive?”
Well. As much as he ever was.
“Walter Mundane , blind squirrel, finds a nut.”
Yes he does. He actually offers BO some very good advice on shoring up his position. Fortunately, the article also includes this:
“...[T]he president’s ability to pull himself out of a political tailspin is hampered by his resistance to seek out fresh thinking.”
Had me wonderin’ too. From the sounds of things, I guess he is.
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