Posted on 10/27/2010 12:54:53 PM PDT by Red Steel
Democrats have been plagued on the campaign trail by the White House’s trouble communicating a “clear and concise” message, Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday.
“The message hasn't been getting out clearly and correctly since almost the beginning of the Obama administration,” Rendell told Fox News.
Rendell pointed specifically to the health care law, which Republicans have used to hammer Democrats on the campaign trail.
“When I ask people about, for example, the health care bill, they say, ‘well, the health care bill, I like a lot of the provisions, but it's going to add to the deficit,’” Rendell said. “No, it isn't … The CBO says over the next 20 years, it will reduce the deficit by $1 trillion.”
The term-limited governor and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee said that health care is just one of a number of issues on which Democrats have struggled to effectively make their case.
“What happened is the Democrats joined the Obama administration, lost a spin war on stimulus, on health care, even financial responsibility…95 percent of the people should have been for that bill,” he said. “It hasn't been a clear and concise enough message."
Yeah, it’s the message Eddy. Has nothing to do with policies...
Good God, they've been playing this lame song for forty years now. Everytime they take a beating its because they're better and smarter and the people are at fault for not understanding that.
It sure is an irritating thing when regular folks in America wake up, ain’t it?
When the truth and lies are offered a level playing field, lies don’t have a chance.
The internet is becoming the great equalizer. I don’t have TV, so I see NO political ads. For me it is all about actual information I can easily find on the internet. As more and more people do that, the TRUE stars will rise to the top.
If the web stays truly free, that is.
Another way to look at it is that the Rats actually did get their message out, but now a majority of the people know it’s outright lies, and they act accordingly.
Go back to bemoaning the latest Eagles’ meltdown Ed.
Translation: We just weren’t effective enough in lying to the American people.
Sorry Ed. They’re on to you and your pals. Lies get old and tired, and always eventually catch up with those who tell them.
Sure Ed. It’s all about spin. Not 17% unemployment and inflation in food, gas, and medical insurance with no available credit for ordinary people and crashed house prices.
From the governor who is a local TV football analyst.
I saw this POS on Fox today...he is usually a fairly happy type guy...not anymore LOL!
It’s hard to spin a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit when the average American’s income has been steadily dropping. I’m sure the bankers and the unions who got the money were polite enough to buy the spin, though. :)
It’s hard to spin a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit when the average American’s income has been steadily dropping. I’m sure the bankers and the unions who got the money were polite enough to buy the spin, though. :)
The rookie Hussein: “We’re on the brink. Throw that car into ‘D’ and let’s move forward!
The presentation concedes that groups typically supportive of Democratic causes — people under 40, non-college-educated women and Hispanic voters — have not been won over by the plan. Indeed, it stresses repeatedly, many are unaware that the legislation has passed, an astonishing shortcoming in the White House's all-out communications effort.
"Straightforward ‘policy’ defenses fail to [move] voters’ opinions about the law," says one slide. "Women in particular are concerned that health care law will mean less provider availability — scarcity an issue."
The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed.
"Many don’t believe health care reform will help the economy," says one slide.
The presentation's final page of "Don'ts" counsels against claiming "the law will reduce costs and [the] deficit." (Source: Politico)
Well actually.......there are NO jobs out there and it is the economy stupid....that is the message voters have gotten....
The truth is Fast Eddie, you sealed your fate the day you all crammed Socialized medicine down the throats of Americans. You all crowed about it and then pretended you didn’t even read it first.
Epic Fail. Add that foul violation of trust to no jobs and constant union thug support.
EPIC FAIL.
Their message was clear enough; we simply didn’t like what we heard.
TOTAL NONSENSE.
The Obama and Dim message has been totally clear and well-enough articulated, continuously since 2008.
The American people simply do not agree with that message. It fooled some only until its real world application became unavoidable, and detested.
But, leave it to a Liberal like Rendell (a “useful idiot” to the Marxists) to believe that there is NOTHING WRONG with what they think, just something wrong with their presentation. Intellectually, they are sixty-years old dead-meat.
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