“…we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular.” – Barack Obama

Hey, guess what?  It seems that three weeks from a historic midterm pasting, President Obama is realizing he has a serious problem with the electorate.

Is it that we tire of his ceaseless arrogance?  That we resent his Chicago-style mob tactics?  That we find his ultra-leftist, hyper-intrusive “transformation” of America offensive and totally incompatible with what made the country great?

Of course not!  The problem, according to this New York Times piece,  is that Obama was just concentrating too doggone much on the policy end of it, at the expense of the politics:

Most of all, he has learned that, for all his anti-Washington rhetoric, he has to play by Washington rules if he wants to win in Washington. It is not enough to be supremely sure that he is right if no one else agrees with him. “Given how much stuff was coming at us,” Obama told me, “we probably spent much more time trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right. There is probably a perverse pride in my administration — and I take responsibility for this; this was blowing from the top — that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”

Ah, there you go!  The problem is that you’re too thick to get what he’s doing.  Again.  Again again.

He’s doing the right thing.  Says he is, so he is.  See, you’re just pitching a fit because you’re not grasping the superb wonderfulness of it all, and that’s why it’s “unpopular.”  It’s his job to work on that, so grease up hold tight and prepare to be persuaded, you stupid rubes Middle America!

Also, you’re insufficiently appreciative of “how much stuff was coming at us.”  Yeah, so, Obama inherited a country in abject ruin, barely able to raise its head for a dribbled spoonful of gruel, and you just don’t understand all he’s done for us.  Hey, it all might be over by now if he hadn’t righted the ship.  Probably you’re clinging to guns and religion, and antipathy toward people who aren’t like you.

Have I mentioned how critical it is that the incoming Congress be serious about how they got there?

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