Posted on 10/17/2010 11:23:49 AM PDT by Justaham
At a Saturday-evening fundraiser held in the home of a wealthy Massachusetts hospital executive, President Obama suggested Democrats are having difficulties in midterm campaigning because Americans simply aren't thinking clearly. Seeking to explain his party's troubles, the president focused not on controversial legislation like national health care and the stimulus but on evolutionary psychology. "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared," Obama told the assembled Democrats, who paid $15,200 a person to attend. "And the country is scared."
To "break through the fear and the frustration that people are feeling right now," Obama told the crowd, will require high-end donors not just to "write checks" but also to "lift up people's spirits and make sure that they're not reacting just to fear."
In a now-infamous April 2008 speech to a similarly posh fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama discussed Pennsylvanians who had seen their standard of living decline in recent years by saying: "It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." In the ensuing controversy over his remarks, Obama did not apologize or back down from his position but conceded he had made "poor word choices."
First Lady Michelle Obama has also occasionally diagnosed the American public. According to an account in the New Yorker, she said at a March 2008 rally in South Carolina that Americans are "guided by fear" and that the United States as a country is "just downright mean."
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That’s right. If they’d been thinking clearly, the Dems would never have been elected in the first place.
So they are going to send us to a place to “get our minds right?”
This jasperjust can’t help himself; he opens his mouth and insults people.
Obama should know, he hasn’t thought clearly a day in his life
Shakin’ the bush here, boss...
Yes, if only we’d get with the mind control program all would go well for The One. I guess the free psychoanalysis is part of our new health care benefits.
Now we know what he thinks of the stupid people who voted for him the first time.
This time, he isn’t lying.
What,we have her’ is a failure to commucate!
Yep! That’s short speak for YOU’RE STUPID!
Yeah, right - get back to me Bamster once you’ve decided whether or not you know what you mean by “shovel-ready jobs” and “you can keep your insurance”.
Short of that, find yourself a golf course and quit wasting my time.
..we’ll see how clearly he’s thinking come NOV.3RD
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Delivered with the grace and ease like any accomplished comedian would, no doubt.
Perhaps it is time to dissolve the people and elect a new one.
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