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Jewish World Review
Jan. 25, 2010
/ 10 Shevat 5770
Fine Tuning the Message
By
Linda Chavez
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President Obama needs to give a few more speeches, maybe get his face on
TV more often, give a few more interviews to friendly journalists and
everything will be all right, despite Democrats' stunning defeat in the
Massachusetts Senate race this week. "(W)e were so busy just getting
stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of
us that 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," the
president explained to ABC's George Stephanopoulos. Yeah, that's the
ticket.
The president gave only 411 speeches during his first 365 days in
office; that's barely more than one a day. Maybe if he'd given two a
day, the American people would have gotten through their thick skulls
that he knows what's good for them, even if they don't like it. Maybe he
should have talked more about health care; he made only 52 speeches or
statements urging health care reform during his first year. Surely, if
he'd talked about it more often or explained it a little better,
Americans would be clamoring to turn their health care over to the
government.
Now, I know some pundits are saying that Obama and Democrats in Congress
should rethink their agenda. But they're missing the point. Thank
goodness the president's spokesman Robert Gibbs explained it to the
White House press corps: "I don't believe the president thinks that we
should stop fighting for what's important to the middle class, that we
should stop fighting for an economic recovery, that we should stop
fighting for what we need to do to create an environment for the private
sector to hire."
Right. They should just keep on doing what they've been doing, only
harder. The Washington Post's Michael D. Shear described the strategy
inside the White House this way: "As they huddled behind closed doors in
the West Wing, Obama's top aides were glum but undeterred. Several
described an atmosphere of resolve not unlike the mood during the
toughest moments of the 2008 campaign." If Hillary Clinton and John
McCain could be thwarted, so can the will of the American people. It's
just a matter of putting the right words on the teleprompter.
For those skeptics that think Obama's falling popularity and the
Democrats' loss of three statewide races so far this year has anything
to do with 10 percent unemployment or an increase of nearly $1.7
trillion in national debt on his watch, well, that just shows they
haven't a clue who the real culprits are. It's George W. Bush's fault
oh, and his banker friends.
Never mind that the same folks Obama now calls "reckless" are among the
Democrats' most reliable financial backers Goldman Sachs gave 73
percent of its political contributions to Democrats in 2006-2008, and
hedge funds have given 70 percent of their funds to Dems so far in the
2010 election cycle, according to National Review's Kevin Williamson.
But so long as Obama tells the American people that the bank "rescue,
undertaken by the Bush administration, was deeply offensive" (even if
"it was the necessary thing to do," as he conceded this week), they'll
think it's Republicans who are in bed with the banks, not him or
Democrats in Congress.
Obama is all about change. And now it's time to change the subject.
Let's not talk about Democrats' defeat at the polls. Let's not talk
about Americans' dislike of a government-run health care system. Or
about disappearing jobs. Let's find an enemy we can all agree to hate.
Bankers are evil; we've known that since Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey
took on the villainous Henry F. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life." Obama
just needs to rally the people to take on Big Banking and they'll forget
all their own problems.
Politics has nothing to do with the democratic will of the people. It's
all about messaging, and Obama just needs to fine tune his.
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