One of the immutable rules of politics is that if you have to explain something you've said publicly, the argument is already lost. "What I was trying to say was...."
Loser!
In that sense President Obama was strategically wise Friday afternoon not to try to somehow explain his morning jaw-dropper about the private U.S. economic sector doing just fine with the real unemployment rate above 14%. Instead, the Democrat simply contradicted himself. Create a new quotable reality. The Chicago way.
Morning: "The private sector is doing just fine."
Afternoon: "It is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine."
Dissembling doesn't faze him. Pretending just might work. Which Obama do you believe? Increasingly, neither. The president's latest gaffe is, as another high-ranking Democrat would put it, a big #$%&*+@ deal because:
Obama's economic policies are like deer-hunting with an AK-47 by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.com
1 comment:
"desperate president's election year economic policies are like deer-hunting with an AK-47 on automatic."
Or, you could say that he was using well baited "bear traps".
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