More Whining from the Whiner-in-Chief
President Obama tells Time magazine why his policies are so unloved:
The president says he also wants to do a better job of explaining to the public how his policies will help the economy grow. Obama claims he didn’t do a good enough job selling Americans on the stimulus plan and the auto company bailout because he was so focused on acting to fix the economy.
“[W]e were in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, so we had to just do stuff fast. And sometimes it wasn’t popular,” Obama told Time. “And we didn’t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing with the Recovery Act, which was basically a jobs act and making-sure-middle-class-families-didn’t-fall-into-poverty act.”
Poor salesmanship, eh? Too busy presidenting to do any speechifying? That’s not what the record says — this President was omnipresent during 2009 and 2010. His polls tended to rise when he cut back on all the speeches and personal appearances.
Maybe — just maybe — Americans are sour on the stimulus because of this chart.
Obama’s next B.S. excuse is that “we didn’t know how bad it really was.” Puh-lease. What did he spend his transition doing? What was he reading in the weeks prior to passing the stimulus — Cat Fancy?magazine?
He didn’t have time to make the sale, he didn’t know how bad things really were, he didn’t even write the damn legislation. What did he spend the last four years doing, other than just being his totally awesome self and working up his March Madness picks?
We should also note that the economy had bottomed out in June of 2009, before a single stimulus dollar had been spent. All the stimulus did was dole out hundreds of billions to special interest groups and accelerate the dual bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare.
“…accelerate the duel bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare”
Another ironic typo. I truly enjoy your work. (no, not being sarcastic, i really do)
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I am STILL on the hard part of the learning curve for the new-and-improved AutoCorrect — and it’s been more than a year already.
Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll get that fixed.
“Puh-lease. What did he spend his transition doing? What was he reading in the weeks prior to passing the stimulus…?”
Looking up recipes to find out what goes best with dog.
Sounds like Obama has settled on the theme of his post-presidential biography, eh? Like Jimmy carter, I doubt he’ll ever understand why Americans didn’t re-elect him, didn’t love him as much as he deserved to be loved.
“And we didn’t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing…”
As if he wanted that luxury! The luxury to Uncle Barry was the opposite; that he could enact policies without having to explain anything.
You have to admit that explaining how your policies will make the economy grow is a tough sell when your policies aren’t actually making the economy grow. Reality can be such a bitch sometimes.
“And we didn’t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing…”
Well, he can’t explain what he’s doing because he doesn’t KNOW what he’s doing. Harry, Nancy and the Demo-pork brigade wrote the stimulus as well as Obamacare. If Obama could’ve he would’ve had somebody else sign his name to the crap so he wouldn’t have to exert himself.