Just days after his party was routed in the midterm elections, President Obama said that he and his White House team had not succeeded in effectively selling the benefits of his policies to the American people, calling it a “failure of politics” that he must change in the final two years of his presidency.
“It’s not enough just to build a better mousetrap,” Mr. Obama said in an interview that was taped Friday at the White House and broadcast Sunday on the 60th anniversary of CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. “People don’t automatically come beating to your door. We’ve got to sell it. We’ve got to reach out to the other side and, where possible, persuade.”
Mr. Obama acknowledged bluntly that “we got beat” in the elections on Tuesday and said that the Democratic losses prompted him to have a “gut check” about what he needed to do differently. But as he has in the past, the president defended the merits of his administration’s policies, blaming the election results on a poor communications effort in the White House.
“There are times, there’s no doubt about it, where, you know I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction,” Mr. Obama said.
WHY should this man take the blame by himself??? What about all the chicken-little Dems who are soooo scared of losing their seats that they ran like the dickens AWAY from liberal policies to say “Oh, I’m only sorta liberal, maybe, kinda….” Not very smart since the majority of the American people side WITH progressive ideals, but just hate the black guy. And what did it get them? Not a damn thing.
I’ve often said I’d rather be respected for what I actually do and believe, than LIKED for saying all the “right” things.