Given Obama’s consummate arrogance towards anyone else’s opinion but his own, this comment sounds less and less like a real “Whoa, what if we were wrong?” and more like “What is it with these uneducated knaves who can’t see what I’m really trying to do for them?”
If he even felt the former, it was for a brief second or two - and then he went along on his merry way.
Nobody who spends a lifetime pushing a political line is going to just fold up and say "I was wrong all along."
If Clinton had won by a landslide, would you say, "My whole world view must be wrong"?
So, sure, Obama's not saying that his philosophy is all wrong, but if he's admitting major strategic and tactical mistakes, that's something.
Assuming the story is true, admitting that one moved too fast or that voters didn't want what one was selling may go beyond simple anger or contempt for the voters.
But I certainly don't know whether this is what really happened. Whether it happened like this or not, the article does have a phony, contrived feel to it.
These "inside" articles feel like they are precisely what didn't happen.
Agree.
Remember what obama said after he lost the House?
Obama : maybe i didnt explain it well enough
“... What if we were wrong, and the USA isn’t ready for a complete transition to communism? What if they still want freedom? “