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| Mark Steyn: Obama thinks you're stupid |
| 2010-01-23 |
| 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." Wait, wait! Come back! Don't all stampede for the hills! He only gave (according to CBS News's Mark Knoller) 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year. That's more than any previous president -- and maybe more than all of them put together. But there may still be some show out there that didn't get its exclusive Obama interview -- I believe the top-rated Grain & Livestock Prices Report -- 4 a.m. Update with Herb Torpormeister on WZZZ-AM, Dead Buzzard Gulch Junction's Newstalk Leader, is still waiting to hear back from the White House. But what will the president be saying in all these extra interviews? In that interview about how he hadn't given enough interviews, he also explained to George Stephanopoulos what that wacky Massachusetts election was all about: "The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office," said Obama. "People are angry and they're frustrated, not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years but what's happened over the last eight years." Got it. People are so angry and frustrated at George W. Bush that they're voting for Republicans. In Massachusetts. Boy, I can't wait for that 159th interview. Presumably, the president isn't stupid enough actually to believe what he said. But it's dispiriting to discover he's stupid enough to think we're stupid enough to believe it.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #12 Can't believe people used to think this guy was smart. Sheesh. As for explaining things, liberals don't do that. The more they explain, the less people want to vote for them. So they have become expert in not telling people what they are really up to. Now that folks are starting to figure out what Obama is about, he thinks he can put the genie back in the bottle. He's going to go around trying to obfuscate and confuse in hopes of softening the opposition to his actual policies. Typical f&$king marxist bulls#@t. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-01-23 18:21 |
| #11 So much for the 'B+', huh? What 'journalist' will be the first to bring that hot potato up? Yeah, I won't hold my breath, though I saw pigs fly this past year... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2010-01-23 18:11 |
| #10 He is right about that for a certain portion of the electorate who still think he's doing a good job in spite of all evidence to the contrary. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-23 15:21 |
| #9 I keep telling you folks that this is one time the Zero is correct. The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office What this idiot and most of the idiots in DC don't get is WHAT THAT THING IS!!!!! That thing is extreme anger and frustration that the corrupt financial dealings that got us into this mess are on both sides. Mostly Democrats but too many 'pubs too are nothing more than cogs in the machine that accepts millions from the fat-cats and return billions through shady laws. This is rent-seeking and corporatism all the way through. That's what is driving the anger. Yes there are some other ancillary issues but they can be looked as as part of this main one. Transparency, an end to ear marks and an end to punitive regulations at the behest of the big boys to punish the small fry, those are the things that need to be done. Oh, yeah tar and pitchforks would help too. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-01-23 15:17 |
| #8 well, it has little better feel than: "I'm Creigh Deeds!" "No, I'm Creigh Deeds" "No, I'm Creigh Deeds"... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-23 15:06 |
| #7 Everybody wants to be Scott Brown now. It's getting to be like watching the end of "Spartacus".. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-23 14:59 |
| #6 Obviously we don't understand it, because how could anyone oppose it? The idea of legitimate dissent is apparently dead and gone. We understood it just fine, and we hated it! Is that so hard to understand? |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-01-23 14:57 |
| #5 Obama thinks you're stupid That's OK. It's mutual. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-23 14:49 |
| #4 the whole problem is that they haven't explained their ideas and policies to us Fixed it for you, Dr. Steve. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-23 13:37 |
| #3 Klassik Kommentary! Got it. People are so angry and frustrated at George W. Bush that they're voting for Republicans. In Massachusetts. Boy, I can't wait for that 159th interview. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-01-23 13:21 |
| #2 The bright folks on the Left think that the whole problem is that they haven't explained their ideas and policies to us in a sufficiently convincing way. That's why we rubes don't get it. To the contrary, they have explained it sufficiently, and that's why we say, and vote, NO! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-01-23 12:09 |
| #1 The proof is Obama's election to the presidency. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-23 11:54 |