Exactly. Also, it's one thing for voters to look past the faults of a candidate who campaigns on "change" in the abstract. It becomes impossible for voters to overlook those faults anymore when that same candidate accedes to power in office & the specific changes he institutes hit home right where the same voters live.
As Fred Barnes just noted in his latest piece in the Weekly Standard, "Death of a Salesman":
Being president isn't easy. A candidate can get away with speeches that are glib and vague. A president can't. "It's easy to sell ice cream," says Don Stewart, the spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "It's hard to sell rum raisin ice cream." Obama's problem is he hasn't learned the difference.
Barack Obama's undoing just might be the tritely nebulous sloganeering he chose to employ during his campaign - it's come back to haunt him & it's now exactly that much vaunted 'change' which is now scaring the bejeebers out of many of the very people who voted for it now that they're looking at its precise terms up close & personal.
Good obeservations. This makes me ANGRY at those people, for pulling the voting lever for someone they didn't know enough about, and who had purposely obfuscated about his past and his unbelievable and nonexistent record.
Thanks for linking that Death of a Salesman article. Very good one by Barnes. I am quite surprised that Dear Leader’s administration hasn’t figured out his major problems.