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Exclusive: President Obama: We Lost Touch with American People Last Year
ABCNews ^ | January 20, 2010 | Karen Travers

Posted on 01/20/2010 12:19:07 PM PST by Steelfish

Exclusive: President Obama: We Lost Touch with American People Last Year Obama Says Focus on Policymaking Distracted White House from Speaking Directly to American People

KAREN TRAVERS Jan. 20, 2010

President Obama said today that he feels he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policy-making. One year into the president's term, George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama."If there's one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values," Obama told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview at the White House.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 01/20/2010 12:19:07 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

. . . . most of whom lost touch with their senses the year before.


2 posted on 01/20/2010 12:20:19 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Steelfish
we were so busy just getting stuff done

Like what??

3 posted on 01/20/2010 12:20:41 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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To: Steelfish

You arrogant idiot, you were never IN TOUCH with people!


4 posted on 01/20/2010 12:21:09 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Steelfish

Never complain. Never explain.


5 posted on 01/20/2010 12:21:22 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Steelfish

Obama was never in touch. He ran a campaign on lofty rhetoric then immediately started to govern like a hard left progressive. The voters bought what he said not what he does.


6 posted on 01/20/2010 12:21:52 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Steelfish

Here it comes.........Bush / Cheney at fault.


7 posted on 01/20/2010 12:21:57 PM PST by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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ping


8 posted on 01/20/2010 12:21:57 PM PST by PMAS
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To: Steelfish

Once again, 0bama is lying. The Dems lost touch with the American people decades ago.


9 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:06 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (STOP GLOBAL WHINING!!)
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To: Steelfish

No, you purposely ignored the American people so you could shove your agenda down their throats. prez because you’re an arrogant, narcissist.


10 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:06 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Steelfish

He could start by holding a press conference and ditching the telepromters.


11 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:08 PM PST by tractorman
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To: Steelfish

You lost touch because you spit in our face and we quit listening.


12 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:33 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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What an ass-hat.

He's either profoundly stupid...or profoundly devious.

I think it's a combo...

13 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:33 PM PST by Osage Orange (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It)
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A Solid B+ type of answer!


14 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:33 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: Steelfish
President Obama: We Lost Touch with American People Last Year

No, you got CAUGHT by the American people.

15 posted on 01/20/2010 12:22:40 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Steelfish

Clinton upon getting waxed in 1994: “The Era of Big Government is over”...with Newt at the helm, Clinton then signs welfare reform that kicks 10,000,000 off the dole.

Obama after losing VA, MA and NJ: “We just didn’t explain why socialism is good for you.” Potentially more of the same to come, folks.

This guy is more arrogant than Bill Clinton! Can you imagine?

Hello, Jimmy Carter II.


16 posted on 01/20/2010 12:23:17 PM PST by Tulane
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To: Genoa

Huh....”LAST year...”????? He didn’t go back far enough!


17 posted on 01/20/2010 12:23:22 PM PST by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think. " Adolph Hitler)
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To: kcvl

He was on tv so many time last year, more days than there are in a year, that I got sick of seeing his arrogant, condesending countenance.


18 posted on 01/20/2010 12:23:26 PM PST by Parmy
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"If there's one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us..."

Bush's fault!

19 posted on 01/20/2010 12:23:40 PM PST by rogue yam
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maybe he should launch a "listening" tour and then form a "panel" to discuss these American values that are seem so alien to him....

what a joke...

20 posted on 01/20/2010 12:24:08 PM PST by NMEwithin
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