|
|
|---|
|
American Politics Journal Atrios Barry Crimmins Betty Bowers Buzzflash Consortium News Daily Howler Daily Kos Democatic Underground Disinfotainment Today Evil GOP Bastards Faux News Channel Greg Palast The Hollywood Liberal Internet Weekly Jesus General Joe Conason Josh Marshall Liberal Oasis Make Them Accountable Mark Morford Mike Malloy Political Humor - About.com Political Wire Randi Rhodes Rude Pundit Smirking Chimp Take Back the Media Whitehouse.org More Links |
Obama’s
success rests in the truth
by Scot Lehigh
There's no shortage of political
advice for Obama as the elections approach.
Go left, think big, and sharpen policy differences. Slide center-ward,
think small,
and make like Bill Clinton. Play the populist card. Reach out. Lash out.
And so on and so forth, each according to the commentator’s own
political inclination.
But here's an even simpler way for the president to regain his footing
in this season of voter discontent.
Explain yourself. Regularly. Repeatedly. Clearly. And forcefully.
A year is an epoch in American politics, two an eon, so it’s easy
to forget that Obama
took office among some of the most challenging circumstances in modern
memory.
He inherited two wars, one of necessity, one of choice; a teetering
financial system;
an economy sliding deeper and deeper into recession; and a flood of red
ink.
A year and three quarters later, Obama can point to some important
progress.
Although Afghanistan drags along with uncertain prospects, our military
role in Iraq
is on the wane, our combat mission over in theory, if apparently not in
fact.
What?
That's sounds a lot like, "Why don't you just list the damn facts?"
Sometimes the news reads like a month-old issue of bartcop.com