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January 26, 2010
Sarah Palin: Can you hear us now, Mr. President?
Topics:Sarah Palin sticks it to the president in her latest Facebook missive (via Don Surber): "Mr. President: Please Try, "I'm Listening, People," Instead of "Listen Up, People!":
We've now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington's big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn't his fault, it's ours. He seems to think we just don't understand what's going on because he hasn't had the chance - in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year - to adequately explain his policies to us.Read it all, along with Don Surber's comments which include the statement that he's been around for 56 years, following presidents from President Kennedy forward, and that no one has failed more in a single year - not even Jimmy Carter in 1979 was as big a failure as Barack Obama in 2009. And Carter had hostages in Iran.Instead of sensibly telling the American people, "I'm listening," the president is saying, "Listen up, people!" This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president's policies. We just don't agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren't looking for more political strategists. We're looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president's former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to "get on the same page," but what's on that page? He claims that the president is "resolved" to "keep fighting for" his agenda, but we've already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn't give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the "big banks" means ending bailouts; and stopping "the undue influence of lobbyists" means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Posted by Richard at January 26, 2010 3:58 PM
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