If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Switched open Facebook to discover that the pro-Obama contingent thinks this Andrew Sullivan post is super awesome and right on. Here's the excerpt that folks seem to find especially compelling:
If you'd told me in January 2009 that the banks would pay us back the entire bailout and then some, that the auto companies would actually turn around with government help and be a major engine of recovery, that there would be continuous job growth since 2009, however insufficient, after the worst demand collapse since the 1930s, that bin Laden would be dead, Egypt transitioning to democracy, al Qaeda all but decimated as a global threat, and civil rights for gays expanding more rapidly than at any time in history ... well I would be expecting a triumphant re-election campaign.
So you see, the problem is not with the President's governing. It's just a messaging problem. If only more people understood all the great things he's done...
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Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
What Andrew Sullivan really means to say is that he is glad the Obama administration let him off on the marijuana charge.
Jul '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Even Obama isn't tin eared enough to run a triumphalist campaign centered on the economy. In fact, I didn't think anyone was.
Andrew Sullivan should talk to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
Aug '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
I see JournoList 2.0 is open for business.
Jan '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Fantastic. Keep telling Americans they're too stupid to know how lucky they are to have Obama and his only prophet, Andrew Sullivan, whether they're under-employed or not, and I'm sure they'll come around to this point of view!
Mar '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Of course it is, it always is. Messaging, communicating, spinning and on and on and on; it is never the message, no it is always just how that message is presented. How could it be otherwise?
If your beliefs are anchored to the notion that those on the right are merely too stupid/evil to accept all the good you have done what other conclusion could you reach? I should be offended but at this point it is merely tiresome.
May '10
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That or time for another speech...oh please...another speech...that will do it.
Feb '11
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Once again, Andy provides evidence of the link between sleep apnea and brain damage...
Jan '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
If you had told me that we made it January of 2009 without another 9/11, or that Bush's bailout would have been repaid, that Iraq would have been mostly stable by the time he left office ... my God, Bush would have been ranked #1 all time!
It all depends on how you look at things.
Mar '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Does anyone read Mr Sullivan any more? - I lost him at Sarah Palin's, um, oh, never mind.
Jul '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
The collapse of the labor force just sailed right over his head, didn't it? That 9.1 does not include millions that have given up, Andrew. But the facts were never your long suit.
Aug '10
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And that, sir, is why you are not a successful political strategist. Or even pundit.
Jun '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Nobody wake them up please.
Nov '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Where is ObamaCare in this list? Where is the spending and growth of government. Where is Andrew Sullivan?
Sep '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Did Sullivan or one of his ghost bloggers write that?
Oct '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
Insanity is repeating the same experiment, expecting different results. In this case, the students are smarter than the Prof.
Save we are locked some hideous classroom trying transfer out of class and graduate. Even the councilors are in lockstep with the University.
Jul '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
What message this time, then? "Hope" is slipping away. "Change" happened and no one liked it. How do you convey to the public that you know what's good for them even though no one wants what you've already done?
Let's see, they can't trot out the "but we're not finished" line. No one is buying that and most people hope they are finished. Similarly, "stay the course" is something that won't be popular.
The only alternative I can see is fear mongering. It's going to be ugly. Actually, it already is.
Aug '10
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
As I recall, the President made a similar claim after the major losses in the 2010 elections. His analysis was the Democratic losses were the result of him not having put his message out enough. It couldn't possibly be because people were disagreeing with those policies.
Apr '11
Re: If Only He'd Improve His Messaging
That's kinda what I was thinking also. Well actually, I was thinking its obvious Andrew is still getting high.
Dec '10
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His surprise stems from the assumption that Democrats do not honor their promises.
Dec '10
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"civil rights for gays expanding more rapidly than at any time in history"
This is Sullivan's central concern. He listed the other pseudo-accomplishments so that this one wouldn't seem so lonely.