Scheduled for November 2nd. Get your tickets now.
Posted on 09/14/2010 1:04:38 PM PDT by Justaham
President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot sun with them and “feel their pain.”
He was meeting with a Fairfax family for a backyard discussion on the economy in an effort to improve voter perceptions about his empathy with ordinary people.
Unlike former President Clinton, who famously felt the pain of voters during a recession, Obama has not connected emotionally with voters over their worries and fears.
Voters two years ago appreciated Obama’s cool, professorial demeanor; it earned him praise, as in “No drama Obama,” and drew favorable contrasts with both President George W. Bush and the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
But it is widely perceived as less appealing now, as the administration has struggled to revive the economy and convey an impression of strong management.
Democratic strategists worry the president is seen as too aloof, and that this gets in the way of the administration’s message that the economy is slowly but surely recovering. An Associated Press/GfK poll late last month showed that only 41 percent of those surveyed approve of the way Obama is handling the economy.
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Didn’t Carter go around the country “talking to ordinary people” during the last part of his mercifully short Presidency?
Wasn’t that what led to the famous “malaise speech?”
This is the old two’n-three steps forward and one step back approach.
This sorry excuse for a pResident has never felt any pain in is life. Nor does he have any connection with the roll he is playing other than doing the dirty work of the political class masters for his self-aggrandizement based on the color of his skin!
Cool Hand Osama. I like when he ‘explains’ how we are just scared and frustrated with the huge economic and demographic changes taking places in this country and he very says that this is natural historically, just like the Southern whites (racists) rebelling after the Civil War and the 1960s civil rights changes. I love Obama explaining why we are wrong, he is SO smart. Too smart for us unworthy Americans. Maybe Greece needs his expertise.
Read the comments at The Hill — they must be 100:1 anti-O!
Now he’ll just have to [not] have sex with someone that could be his daughter’s age
and the left will be all over defending him.
As Obama channels Bill Clinton all he needs to complete the picture is a fat girl, a cigar and a little free time in the Oral Office while the little woman is upstairs counting sheep.
Whan a smug elite know-it-all such as president Nimrod goes to a middle class place, such as a backyard, to do a middleclass thing there, such as barbeque meat and, while he is at it, get the poop on how to fix the economy, you KNOW as a matter of fundamental definition that he is play-acting.
Scheduled for November 2nd. Get your tickets now.
Clinton was ten times better than Obama at faking empathy. He could cry on command and it looked real.
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