Posted on 04/27/2016 5:12:26 PM PDT by TroutStalker
President Barack Obama insists he does not obsess about “the narrative,” the everyday media play-by-play of political Washington. He urges his team to tune out “the noise,” “the echo chamber,” the Beltway obsession with who’s up and who’s down. But in the fall of 2014, he got sick of the narrative of gloom hovering over his White House. Unemployment was dropping and troops were coming home, yet only one in four Americans thought the nation was on the right track—and Democrats worried about the midterm elections were sprinting away from him. He wanted to break through the noise.
Obama’s strategists, led by his longtime political guru David Axelrod, had always warned him against “dancing in the end zone.” Their polling suggested that gloating about the recovery would backfire when so many Americans were still hurting. But Obama thought it was time to spike the football, and in a speech at Northwestern University, he tried to reshape his narrative. If the presidential bully pulpit couldn’t drown out the echo chamber, he figured nothing could.
“Sometimes the noise clutters and, I think, confuses the nature of the reality out there,” Obama said. “Here are the facts.”
The facts were that America had put more people back to work than the rest of the world’s advanced economies combined. High school graduation rates were at an all-time high, while oil imports, the deficit, and the uninsured rate had plunged. The professor-turned-president was even more insistent than usual that he was merely relying on “logic and reason and facts and data,” challenging his critics to do the same. “Those are the facts. It’s not conjecture. It’s not opinion. It’s not partisan rhetoric. I laid out facts.”
The Northwestern speech did reshape the narrative, but not in the way Obama intended. The only line that made news came near the end of his 54-minute address, an observation that while he wouldn’t be on the ballot in the fall midterms, “these policies are on the ballot—every single one of them.” When Obama boarded Air Force One after his speech, his speechwriter, Cody Keenan, told him the Internet had already flagged that line as an idiotic political gaffe.
“What exactly was untrue about it?” Obama asked, a bit incredulous.
Nothing, but Obama’s words couldn’t change the narrative of his unpopularity; they just gave Republicans a new opening to exploit it. They quickly became a staple of campaign ads and stump speeches tying Democrats ball-and-chain to their leader. “Republicans couldn’t have written a better script,” declared The Fix, the Washington Post’s column for political junkies. Even Axelrod called it “a mistake” on Meet the Press. The substance of the speech was ignored, and Keenan still blames himself for letting one off-message phrase eclipse a story of revival, a prelude to the second Republican midterm landslide of the Obama era. “I’m still pissed off about that,” Keenan told me. “Everything he said was true and important, and that one line got turned against him.”
He is a whore.
I’ll wait for the DOJ to contact me tomorrow.
The “professor-turned-president”? How about the “adjunct part-time lecturer-turned-president”?
The problem is that everything the Obama Administration says is a bag of lies.
“Facts” from Obama.
Just like the Devil had “facts” in the Garden of Eden.
Educated idiot....
Don’t bother...nothing the White House Commie says is worth repeating. Everything he does has to be erased. He is an embarrassment to the human race. He is a classic Emperor’s New Clothes who is uncomfortable in his own skin.
Obama doesn’t realize that the problem is substance, not ‘messaging’. Most people simply don’t agree with his policies, and aren’t satisfied with the direction of the country.
Let's think about this, one at a time:
America had put more people back to work than the rest of the world’s advanced economies combined
Labor participation rate is at a near 40 year low. Most of the "work" being recovered is by immigrants and/or is part time. Hiring is slowed due to Hussein's Death Panels.
Let's move on to the Valerie/Bambi second line:
High school graduation rates were at an all-time high...
The Wall Street Journal reported today that 63% of seniors are not prepared for college reading or math. So shoveling out worthless pieces of paper that say "Graduate" means nothing.
Okay, next:
while oil imports [plunged],
No thanks to Valerie and her man child--they cut the use of drilling on federal lands, declared war on fracking, and sought to punish oil producers. The only "credit" Team BO can claim on reduced use of oil is because of the woeful economy slowing.
Next: the deficit [plunged]
Yippee. Meanwhile, the debt has skyrocketed 80%. More than nearly all other administrations combined...so any meager change in the deficit pales in comparison.
Finally: and the uninsured rate had plunged.
They really wanna go there? Really? Even the LIBERAL site politifact.com: Lie of the Year: If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan
He is a LYING Whore.
Everything that comes off his prompter and out of his mouth is a damn lie. Including all of his made up “facts”.
I wouldn’t give you two bits for the Marxist Kenyan. I couldn’t afford to keep him and his high maintenance family.
Soros’ Politico sells Soros’ Obama.
An enemy islamist whore.
also about "Global Warming"
Expect a new ice age starting around 2025 /2030
Life becomes cold,short and brutish
Millions die...Bill Ayres pleased.
Hey Trout. Haven’t “talked” to you for a very long time. How ya doin?
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