Saturday, October 9, 2010

Umm, Because He Was Never *In* Touch?

The whole thing about whether he was born on American soil actually misses the point. He doesn't live on American soil. If you went to Harvard for anything other than a technical degree, you could have just as well attended La Sorbonne for how much you'll learn about you and me:

Obama’s Rolling Stone Interview Proves He's Out of Touch - Mary Kate Cary (usnews.com): "What is most startling is how the interview ends--the president, “repeatedly stabbing the air with his finger,” calls Democrats who sit out the midterms “inexcusable” and “irresponsible.” “People need to buck up” and “stop sitting on their hands,” he says to his supporters. Continuing on this theme later this week, he told a crowd at a Democratic campaign event to “stop sulking.” Gone are the days of “Yes We Can.” It’s become “You Better Not.” In other words, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Meanwhile, the jobs numbers are out today showing unemployment stuck at 9.6 percent, and the Labor Department this week announced that middle class spending had its steepest one-year drop since records began. Taxes and healthcare costs are rising and incomes are not, so families are spending less on clothing and restaurant meals. Middle class Americans are cutting discretionary spending left and right, trying to make ends meet, while jobs keep disappearing--and our president continues his march to the left leading “the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward.”

How could a man who was such a galvanizing figure for many Americans two years ago have become this out of touch?"