House of Eratosthenes

President Obama’s big mistake up to this point, which I hope He continues to repeat right up until His ass gets kicked outta there, has been to spend all of His resources and His energy marketing Himself to the very, very hardcore Medicators who voted for Him in ’08. Those would be the people who feel, feel, feel their way around every challenge in life and never think, think, think their way through a problem. They don’t give a rat’s rear end about anything in the world other than how they feel at the moment, so cause-and-effect never actually enters the picture. They like to pretend that it does, now & then, and that they’re recognizing it and working with it — because it makes them feel good. But they don’t really do it.

Why this is hurting Him: He’s already got these people locked up. By marketing Himself to them, He isn’t actually changing the situation in any way other than to burn off resources…

…but…it makes Him feel good, so…that’s the rule. If it feels good, do it, and whatever troubles you have should somehow work themselves out.

Now, if Obama came by and read The Blog That Nobody Reads, or one of His campaign staff who is capable of making some decisions comes on by, they could take note of the following. Consider what Obama could do if He wanted to market Himself to people who, to date, would not be so inclined to support Him.

He could do what His predecessor did, and make a pledge not to play golf anymore. That would be a real, to coin a phrase, “change.” Might as well face it, throughout the last three-and-a-half years He’s been looking kind of like an un-manager. He makes a speech blaming Republicans, goes and plays golf, shows up at a democrat fund-raiser, plays some more golf, makes a speech taking credit for something, plays some more golf, produces commercials, plays golf, says “plug the damn hole!,” plays golf, holds a beer summit, plays golf…

…if I didn’t know better, I’d think He just plays golf all the time, waiting for something good to happen so He can hog all the credit for it, or something bad to happen so He can blame “the folks who got us into this mess in the first place”…then goes back to playing golf. He has been an exceptionally passive President. He can actually brag about exactly nothing save for the killing of bin Laden, which is a card He has overplayed so much that any more is going to cause Him serious damage. So: No bragging rights for the country on His watch, the criticism of “He actually hates the country” has started to stick, millions of people out of work and…He’s playing a lotta golf. To keep playing sends an unmistakable message that things are not likely to change.

And, He could at least look like there’s some project in the works, somewhere, that can be managed as a project with tasks and subtasks and objectives and due dates and percentages-done. Just put out a false impression of it — how hard would that be?? It wouldn’t take any effort at all. It would involve a lot of deceptive speech-making, which seems to be right up His alley. Just show up in a city at some time and say “So-and-so has the ball here, our hope is that X will be achieved” and then show up somewhere else two or three weeks later and say “As we hoped, X got done, now we can do Y which could not have been done without X.” Make it look like you’re doing something. That would go a long way toward making it look like smartness is being applied, plans being devised, carried out…there’s another unpleasant truth to be realized here, this shtick of “I am a healing balm and I make the oceans recede” has been played out. That card, like the “I killed bin Laden” card, has been overplayed to the point of becoming toxic, and will cause damage if it is played out any further.

Those are two things He could do to market Himself to new audiences. If they were done, they might all by themselves swing the results of the election to His favor.

They would involve very, very little effort.

Not only will He not do them, but His people won’t even consider them. They are, absolutely, non-starters in every single way. I’d never post them on the Internet if I thought otherwise.

This says a lot about Him and the way He manages things.

Barack & crew know how to do what they know how to do. They’re not interested in expanding the horizons, the world they know is already plenty big enough for them.

I thought it was interesting that CBS This Morning had Axelrod and Jarrett on to comment about the Clinton speech. That’s what passes for Obama supporters these days, the political hacks trying to get him re-elected. I will give Charlie Rose credit for asking them some real questions. That’s more than his co-host was able to manage.
- teripittman | 09/06/2012 @ 11:37

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