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Obama to Voters: You Are Not ‘Thinking Clearly’

Paul Mirengoff at the excellent Power Line blog pulls a quote from one of President Obama’s latest attempts to explain away what every poll shows: The public is not happy with what’s gone on in Washington the last two years.

According to Politico, Obama said this to “several dozen” donors in the friendly confines of Massachusetts:

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser. “And the country’s scared.”
Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”

As Paul notes in his blog post, Obama didn’t have much beef with the way voters were thinking when, at the height of a financial panic in late 2008, “the nation elected an inexperienced, smooth-talking leftist to its highest office.”

No. At that point, Obama had great faith in the wisdom of the American people. As for science … it’s hard to say what Obama is getting at. But  the “dismal science” of economics has little faith — or at least it should have little faith — in the spend-now-tax-later Keynesian solutions Obama and the lefties in Congress have prescribed for the nation’s fiscal woes.

If only the people had more faith in a plan that is demonstrably not working, everything would — at least in Obama’s eyes — be OK. Unfortunately, the American people keep disappointing our president.

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— Jim Lakely

Jim is the the director of communications at The Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland, he was an ink-stained newspaperman for 16 years with many stops in "old media." Jim covered Congress and The White House during the George W. Bush administration for The Washington Times, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California. He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, and many local and national talk radio shows to talk politics and policy.

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  • chris

    Isnt that what they used to say to the slaves when they wanted to be free?

  • Brian G Valentine

    Those dog-danged dimwitted voters, what is wrong with them anyway. What does it take to remove their “fears” over Utopian socialism and the consequences of listening to bone-headed climate “science” crap?

    Mocking fearful voters doesn’t seem to be having the desired effect, maybe time for some stronger measures

  • Gary Sibio

    The voters who aren’t thinking clearly are the ones who voted to put Obama in the White House. We knew who he was and what he wanted to do in 2008. We chose to go for style over substance, taking a man who had never had a real job in his life and making him the most powerful man in the world. How’s that working out for you?

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