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Originally Posted by Paslode
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That is a magnificent statement. I have no clue what it means but it sure sound(bites) effectively. And the use of highlighting color does the same. If your choice of words is delusive then your use of highlighting color is a sleight of hands.
Let me try:
"The mythology has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators, everything worked in lockstep," Obama is quoted saying.
"That's not how I look at stuff, because I remember what the campaign was like. And it was just as messy and just as difficult. And there were all sorts of moments when our supporters lost hope, and it looked like we weren't going to win. And we're going through that same period here."
Another regret expressed by the president was his failure to communicate effectively. Obama said he and his team took "perverse pride" in focusing only on policy while ignoring the sales pitch to the public.
The arrogance.
IMO this is the part that is instructive from the article:
"It may be that
regardless of what happens after this election, they feel more responsible," he is quoted saying in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine, "either because they didn't do as well as they anticipated, and so
the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn't work for them,
or they did reasonably well, in which case
the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way."
I so remember the 20001-2004 period when the Democrats were not even invited to the table. And we got magnificent pieces of legislation like the PATRIOT Act. I've often wondered why Obama and the Democratic leadership didn't do the same thing with the 2000 majority. It may have been accepting the fact that elections are not coups d'etat.
We will see how well the Republican Grizzley Bear strategy works. I personally hope the pendulum's amplitude is greatly reduced. I'm up for government that is a little LESS extreme.