Rather than just evil, or stupid? It appears that may be the case according to recent focus groups;
Jim Geraghty notes it's a long and growing list of concerns coming from swing states, beginning with the usual suspects:
- Grandiose promises on the stimulus fail to materialize
- Obamacare touted as the answer to all their health care needs and turn out to be nothing of the sort
- Pledges of amazing imminent advances in alternative energy
But wait, there's more:
- He seemed to think that reaching out to the Iranians would lead to a change in the regime’s behavior and attitudes
- He was surprised to learn that shovel-ready projects were not, in fact, shovel-ready
- He was surprised to learn that large-scale investment in infrastructure and clean energy projects wouldn’t great enormous numbers of new jobs
- He’s surprised that his past housing policies haven’t helped struggling homeowners like he promised
- He’s surprised that his signature health care policy has become as controversial as it has
- The “recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized”
- When a woman says her semiconductor engineer husband can’t find a job, Obama says he’s surprised to hear it, because “he often hears business leaders in that field talk of a scarcity of skilled workers”
The poor guy. He’s always getting blindsided.
