“Toyota: Dems ‘not industry friendly.’”
Gosh, who knew?
Meanwhile, in news from 2008, Chris Matthews is slowly — very slowly — discovering who the rubes are:
HELENE COOPER, NEW YORK TIMES WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: I think that, that is so much at the center of why Obama, President Obama is having so many problems right now. There’s he, there’s this fundamental belief that he can change, that the power of his personality and the power of his oratory can change people and that just doesn’t happen. There’s this over-reliance I think at the White House that if the President gives a very big speech, or if he comes out there, that his, that he can persuade people and he can do it. And at the same time you don’t have anything changing at the bottom of the way Washington works.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: He promised change, and yet what he said what the change was…
COOPER: But you can’t just do it with the power of your personality.
MATTHEWS: Well, we’re learning that.
Who is this “we” that Chris is referring to? The half of the country that that didn’t feel tingles in their legs in the fall of 2008 knew full well that a cult of personality wasn’t a basis to “change” a country.
Update: The Politico’s article on Toyota is deconstructed in depth by Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog.
“…a cult of personality wasn’t a basis to “change” a country”
Who says? Mao’s cult of personality changed his country from bottom up, and from top down.
Americans have this funny idea that the people they elect to office every few years are hired helps to work for them, not to govern them. Ergo Americans are never governable, and will not be changed by the hired help’s personality.
Long live the Chairman, and long live the American people.
“MATTHEWS: Well, we’re learning that.”
Matthews speaks only for himself. A number of us did indeed know the crap was inevitably going to hit the fan. The polling data clearly showed that most Americans thought Barack Obama was something of a moderate politician. They expected him to be no more liberal than Bill Clinton. Also, his Harvard credentials were taken far too seriously. I was among the very few who warned that Obama is intellectually shallow and poorly read. Oh well, we are now stuck with this narcissistic, poorly educated, and ill prepared man as the elected leader of our country.