Obama Repeats Frequent Mistake

You would think that as sharp as Obama's team was during the campaign, they would stop repeating this same mistake. Their management of expectations has been some of the worst I've ever seen. And they've already missed this mark below in the eyes of anyone who actually cares if his speech is "Reaganesque". It's too late for this to ring true now with anyone who actually remembers Reagan.

At no time in his entire political career did Reagan profess doom and gloom, or dwell on hard times. Obama has been doing nothing but since he took office. Outside of some likely media hype, such a comparison will never ring true. At some point in all this someone has to tell Obama to just be Obama so the country might actually be able to figure out if there's really anyone there.

Gibbs hints at 'Reaganesque' speech

Comments

[obamaesque_is_not_reaganesque]

You're missing the real point here. At no time in his political career did Reagan label himself anyone-esque. He was just Reagan.

Obama has tried to label himself Lincolnesque, FDResque, Kennedyesque, and now Reaganesque. Why is he so afraid to be himself?

[Dan]

I missed the point, or you didn't read the whole thing?

"someone has to tell Obama to just be Obama so the country might actually be able to figure out if there's really anyone there."

[heat]

True. This guy with a thin resume repeatedly gets compared to Lincoln, FDR, Reagan. Not only do I remember Reagan, I remember the left and the press repeatedly trying to write him off as an amiable dunce or an actor reading from a script. Now they cite him as great, even as they try to tear apart his vision of governance. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[Lala]

Someone coined this

The Clothes with No Emperor.

[13yankeebravo]

If the "O" tryed to just be himself, nobody would see him, because there is nothing there, he been playing a role all his life and never developed himself other than what he wants others to see him as.

[sandy]

A wolf in sheeps clothing! he's a fake and I knew that before the election. He can look sharp has a deep voice that appeals to people as serious and smart. He's already made so many mistakes and said "I screwed up" if he can' get a nominee right how's he to run the coutry? He blames the ecomany on Bush which is dead WRONG. The blame lies as far back as Jimmy Carter, he started this program to help people get homes who couldn't afford them. Bush tried to repeal this law but was shot down. At least Bush cared about protecting us. Clinton didn't he was a clown floating on 'all was good" so good he waisted his time having sex in the Oval office. He has alterery motives. Wonder how long before he tries to turn us into a muslim state. He said in his own book "it is ok to lie to convert peopel to muslim" prison or death? this is what you voted for, someone most people know nothing about. At least we knew McCain even though there were no good canidates after the primaries

[yahtzee]

Before I start I just need to say that I am a full fledged republican. I, as well as everyone, need to have faith in what Obama is doing. If we all just sit here and say that everything he does is bad, nothing is ever going to change. I don't care who you cpmpare him to, every one president is his own person. Clinton turned the economy around, regardless if "Jimmy Carter" is to blame c/o sandy. My only question is how can you blame a guy for trying to fix what none of us can fix and how can you blame him for trying?

[yessir]

reagan sucked

[Mark Turner]

Several problems I see here:

-Obama has been compared to just about every great president in American history, with no record of achievement to warrant this. With regard to Reagan and Obama, the only similarity I see is their charismatic media persona/speaking ability. Politically, they are light-years apart in opposite directions.

-Obama is making the same mistake that Carter and Clinton did; he seems to be presuming that his election was a mandate for unbridled liberalism, which it was not. Carter only lasted one term because of this, Clinton got slapped after 2 years in office when the GOP took control of congress.

-The Obama administration and its sympathetic media are publically blaming the Bush administration and GOP solely for the current economic turmoil, without acknowledging the Democratic party's contributions to the problem.

The root causes are nothing new. This has been building up for decades:
-reckless government spending
-reckless consumer spending
-reckless lending by financial institutions
-entitlement culture (individual, corporate, government)

In failing to acknowledge these root causes of the problem, the Obama administration is simply continuing it (the recently passed "stimulus" bill is a prime example of this).

[Mark Turner]

...and with regard to managing expectations, it started in Obama's campaign with the public cult of adulation and pretenses of destined greatness. While Obama cleverly "caught the wave" and rode it to victory, there is bound to eventually be a backlash in the voting public when their (often hyperinflated) expectations are not met. Not the GOP or the right-wing, which didn't vote for him and didn't have high expectations to begin with, but among his own supporters. Charisma only goes so far; when people realize that he's nothing special politically, or that he "shoots blanks" with regard to his campaign promises, they'll take him to account for it.

Until then, he enjoys approval ratings similar to the last several presidents in their first 100 days.

[Ignorance is Strength]

No No No... you don't understand. Obama IS Reaganeque! As every correct thinking person now knows, it was Reagan's deficit spending that fueled the engine of prosperity; just as every correct thinking person knows corporate bailouts and mortage rescues will restore accountability while rewarding fiscal responsiblity. The Obama has proclaimed it to be so.

The only way to get out of a hole is to keep digging until you reach the other side.

--Deputy Assistant Undersecretary to the Assistant Deputy Secretary to the Minister of Truth (DepAssUnderAssDepSec)