Posted on 07/12/2012 7:54:16 PM PDT by Justaham
President Obama's biggest mistake in his first term? Republicans probably have a quick answer involving the words "health care," but Obama himself got a little abstract about the subject in an interview with Charlie Rose of CBS:
• "When I think about what we've done well and what we haven't done well, 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."
• "It's funny—when I ran, everybody said, 'Well he can give a good speech but can he actually manage the job?' 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."
• When Rose asked him whether he meant he needed to explain himself better, Obama replied, "explaining, but also inspiring."
• Mitt Romney: In a quick response spotted by the Weekly Standard, he says the presidency isn't "about telling stories," it's "about leading."
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We all love a great story...if he loses it is definitely because he didn’t dumb it down enough for us...lol.
No I think it was being Born. well we could hollow him out and make a wet suit
There is a vast difference between reciting fictional stories from a teleprompter and leadership. He is bad at the former, and is a dismal failure at the latter.
He has told a lot of stories, sad thing is that most of them are just stories.(Lies)
Stories? He’s already telling fairy tales, why change anything?
Liars always default to lying. It is all he really knows.
Also Sprach Zerothustra
...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..."
“—was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that’s important.”
Translation: Once we try it the ‘right way’ then communism will be a success.
“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.”
Shut up and eat your peas Mr. President. You can’t name a single instance where you even tried to give us a sense of unity, purpose, or optimism. Your entire administration has been a nightmare.
FUBO
So did he make up another composite for the past 3 years?
Now obama thinks he’s Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge. He probably thinks moockel is Nicole Kidmann!
Mitt scores one! Who’da thunk that it wasn’t about telling stories.
“I always like to keep my audience riveted.”
Punk leather???
Cheeseball consultants make a mint with their Powerpoint presentations selling businesses on the idea that their woes are due to their lack of a coherent "story."
It's all about reducing everything to a single character, emotional, simple to understand, graphics heavy tale of somebody with a problem and how your entity helped them solve it.
LOL...
So of all his big mistakes this one was the biggest?
Well, he practically admitted that his first term was a failure. Romney’s campaign should take that “slip” and run with it.
In Obama’s own words: “My biggest mistake was...(fill in the blank)”.
That would a great campaign ad.
Ain't nobody with a brain buyin' the boy's stories. This is a national intelligence test.
Ain't nobody with a brain buyin' the boy's stories. This is a national intelligence test.
and mostly fake stories...
That would be a great campaign ad, if Romney had a campaign. Or if his advisers weren't metrosexual RINO wimps who are trying to out-democrat Democrats.
Romney is one mighty weak cup'o'coffee. Plain vanilla. No syrup. Not tough enough take the chopped nuts from his opponent.
He keeps going like he's going, he's going to make Bob Dole's campaign look exciting.
That all depends on how you define “story”.
All he’s done so far is tell stories and destroy our lives.
No. His biggest mistake was that he told us TOO MANY stories.
FAILURE to "Tell a Story"? Jeez Louise, what do you call the pablum this man as been spewing since November, 2008, maybe even before??
Thinking about it, the last 3 1/2 years has been
One
Bad
Ass
Mistake,
America
to bring back the old slogan.
His biggest mistake is telling stories all along. Truth would be a change I could believe in.
Which one did he miss?
Grimmer's Fairy Tales....
I don’t know what Barry is talking about. He’s been telling us one story after another since the bass turd hit “rising star” status.
IIRC, there may be some Russian skin in the game. Are the items trucked to the Bekka Valley still up there? If someone hit that facility with the right bunker buster, who knows what would get out (including the story about how the Russian convoys moved Saddam’s WMDs out before the coalition troops rolled in).
Oops, wrong thread.
nah the biggest mistake was the lack of contraception used by your parents.
At least the guy is willing to take responsibility for his failure in office (/s to a ridiculous degree).
Well, my "story", and I'm sticking with it, is that the RiNO Imperium asked Mittens to step up and take one for the team while they hang the Dems with the RiNOs' dirty work. John McPain got in and got the nom four years ago when Mittens couldn't light up a wad of newspaper with a cutting torch. So Mittens finally gets his "turn" to fall on his sword, like noble Brutus, for the old-school multi-billionaires. (I said old school -- not your Buffetts and Jobses and Gateses, many of whom are Dims anyway.)
The job the Lords Ordainers want done -- and Bozo hasn't finished it yet, is to get Obozocare far enough along that the Fortune 500 can dump their employee healthcare plans and smash wages with green-card help and finally achieve "productivity parity" with the slums of Calcutta.
Obama, The Poor Communicator
That’s pretty much ALL he’s been doing since Day One, is telling fictional stories...
He’s lied so much, he actually BELIEVES himself now.
when I was a kid, we were not allowed to use the phrase, “You lied!” We said, “OOOO. You’re in trouble cause you ‘made up a story’.”
Silly, yes, I agree, but...
I’d say Obama told us MANY stories during his 2008 campaign and during his 3.5 year reign of terror that I PRAY will come to an end in January!
Everything about Obama is ‘a Story’.
He is a fabrication. worse than anything from the Grimm Fairy Tales.
All he does is butt into daily TV programming & spoil the ending to some series we have watched all season.
I wonder if I will live long enough for the real facts about Barry the Imposter to surface.
Tell a lie long enough and people will eventually believe it as truth...... =.=
As far as I’m concerned, he’s told quite a story, you know, about being born in Hawaii and all.
Not the problem - the real problem is the stories he’s told that are helpful are lies and the stories he’s told that are destructive, he does.
Every time he opens his mouth he tells stories - as in LIES!
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