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Obama: My Biggest Mistake Was Not 'Telling a Story' (Updated)
weeklystandard.com ^
| 7/12/12
| MICHAEL WARREN
Posted on 07/12/2012 4:47:20 PM PDT by ColdOne
"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."
Mr. Obama acknowledged the dissonance between others' perception of his strength as an expert orator, and his own.
"It's funny - when I ran, everybody said, well he can give a good speech but can he actually manage the job?" he said. "And in my first two years, I think the notion was, 'Well, he's been juggling and managing a lot of stuff, but where's the story that tells us where he's going?' And I think that was a legitimate criticism."
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; story
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To: plain talk
.....aaaand LIE,LIE, Lie, lieeeee.....
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:15:49 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: plain talk
.....aaaand LIE,LIE, Lie, lieeeee.....
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:15:49 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: Iron Munro
Gaaah. I swear, if I ever hear anyone even intimate that they would harm a hair on his head, I would likely cuff him to a pipe and call the Secret Service.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:19:56 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
To: ColdOne
I believe from others perspective “his biggest mistake” was being born. What a destructive loser.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:29:45 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: ColdOne
"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."Hey, Obama you freaking dumb-ass, the word you are looking for is "LEADERSHIP" not telling a freaking story....
Damn , this guy is really clueless...
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:32:41 PM PDT
by
Popman
(When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
To: ColdOne
...where's the story that tells us where he's going?' And I think that was a legitimate criticism.
We all know where the story is going when it starts out "Once upon a time..."
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:35:17 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: plain talk
"... but where's the story that tells us where he's going?"We don't need a stinking story to tell us where he is going. We all KNOW that.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:36:38 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
To: ColdOne
Notice the royal "we".
What he didn't do well is find something useful to do.
In the career he has chosen, he is not only clueless, but useless.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:38:05 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
All he does is tell stories! about himself.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:48:02 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(A Dalmation was spotted wagging its tail.)
To: Iron Munro
I have an amount of respect for Martin Luther King that is an order of magnitude higher than any amount of respect that I would ever have for Obama.
However, if I find myself in a city I have never been in before, and I see a street sign that reads “MLK BLVD” or something similar, I know I am in the wrong part of town and get the Hell out of there. I am just saying.
To: ColdOne
His best “story” is hard to beat. “Dreams from My Father.”
So many lies in there it’s hard to keep track.
He’s always telling “stories.”
I knew some black kids who would say, “You tellin a story!” if they didn’t believe you.
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posted on
07/12/2012 6:08:47 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: ColdOne
He has a story, he just doesn’t like the probable outcome. He wants 4 more years, I want no more years.
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posted on
07/12/2012 6:21:33 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
To: coldbluesteel
However, if I find myself in a city I have never been in before, and I see a street sign that reads MLK BLVD or something similar, I know I am in the wrong part of town and get the Hell out of there. I am just saying. MLK Blvd: you are in a bad part of town
Malcolm X Blvd: you are in a really bad part of town
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posted on
07/12/2012 6:42:33 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(Meh.)
To: rlmorel
""""For the rest of my life, regardless of what happens to that jackass, I am going to have to be subjected to seeing his Marxist moniker on things.""""
Technically correct, but rest assured that his name will be removed before too many years.
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posted on
07/12/2012 6:44:17 PM PDT
by
chiller
(Elect another batch of TPartiers and it won't matter which R we elect. WE will lead.d)
To: All
Update: Mitt Romney responds in an official statement:
President Obama believes that millions of Americans have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihood because he failed to tell a good story. Being president is not about telling stories. Being president is about leading, and President Obama has failed to lead. No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency.
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posted on
07/12/2012 7:17:26 PM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
To: ColdOne
This punk ass is seriously mentally ill, I'm not kidding, I'm deadly serious. The jaw-dropping absurdity of the things he comes out with with such casual aplomb are staggering. I'm telling you the guy is nuts!
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posted on
07/12/2012 7:43:22 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: ColdOne
“Well, Hillary, I was just out jogging and this bucket of water on my sweats is just sweat and . . . I did not have sex with . . . “
Oops. Wrong president. Wrong story.
To: ColdOne
'Well, he's been juggling and managing a lot of stuff, but where's the story that tells us where he's going?' Commieland.
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posted on
07/13/2012 5:04:37 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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