Boy, Are We Dumb

As Mark Steyn points out, we're still just too stupid to understand the magnificence of Obama.

So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”

But you schlubs aren’t that smart. You didn’t get it. And Barack Obama is determined to see that you do. So the president has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”

We don't get it.  That, you see, is why Scott Brown got elected in Massachusetts.  So in order to prevent any more such disruptions to his agenda Obama plans to to speak directly and more effectively to us, and to do that he's decided to make significant changes.

WASHINGTON—Coming off one of the most difficult weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has beefed up his political staff and is expected to deliver an uncompromising State of the Union address. Aides said Sunday that the White House wasn't making any abrupt policy shifts, even as the message was retooled to focus more sharply on job creation.

No policy change? Retool the message to focus more sharply on job creation?  You know, I'm not sure we're smart enough to get that message.

Comments

[Geoff Brown]

Well, you know and I know that Obama's real problem is that we DO understand him. Some of us understood him in Fall 2008 and voted for John McCain. Others began to understand him during his first year. The more he made clear what he meant to do, the faster people turned away from him. Heck of it is, we knew all this before and too many of the squishy middle elected him anyway.
Now we have to cut him off by voting in a more reasonable Congress. I entertain a small hope that Obama may resign if the Dems get the whacking I look worward to this fall. He seems the type.

[Tom Bowler]

Oh, Geoff, that really is wishful thinking. Obama resign? Not a chance. Not with that ego.