Actually, the thing that most baffles me about Mr. Obama is how a politician who speaks so well, and is trying to do so many worthy things, can’t come up with a clear, simple, repeatable narrative to explain his politics — when it is so obvious.Obvious to the likes of Friedman, perhaps, but the rest of us aren't getting it at all.
And what was one of the main knocks on George W. Bush? He was a "poor speaker", "stumbled over his words", and some even suggested is was a sign of stupidity. And yet, did anyone have difficulty understanding what Bush's goals and objectives were? Was there any mystery to his motivations and heartfelt desires for this country?
Give me the president who says what he means in plain, simple language, no matter how tortured it may seem at times. At least we know what's really important to him and where he wants to take the country.
Obama has never been particularly clear. or for that matter truthful, about where he really wants to take America. We're often left guessing, and that makes for an electorate that won't trust him enough to return him and his party to power.
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As for his "trying to do so many worthy things," the first was to obstruct the Illinois legislature from creating a law to protect infants that survived abortions.
His other worthy projects spring from that one. And he's the guy they want shaping American medicine.
Given that he's successfully hidden his past (helped by the lap dog media), why should we think he's not hiding much of his present? Speaking clearly? The only thing clear is the TOTUS screen.
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