By: Ronald Kessler
Now that the bluest of blue states has elected Scott Brown as senator, commentators are widely predicting that President Obama will “pivot” towards the right.
But Obama’s comments since that win show that he has no intention of revamping his core positions. Instead, he has clearly decided that the key to winning back the electorate is to try to snow Americans with misleading claims.
First, Obama told George Stephanopoulos that one of his “mistakes” was that he did not explain his healthcare proposal clearly enough.
“I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,” Obama said. “I think the assumption was, if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on the, you know this provision, or that law, or are we making a good, rational decision here, the people will get it.”
In other words, Americans are so dumb they never understood what the healthcare bill was really about. Even though Obama gave 411 speeches and 158 interviews in his first year in office — usually pushing healthcare — people still didn’t get how beneficial the proposal really was.
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