Its Obama Not the American People Who Wont Listen

By David Limbaugh You have to give President Barack Obama credit for one thing: consistency. Nothing is ever his fault. Nothing will ever be his fault. Faulting Fox News and the American people on the other hand now thats a different story. Do you remember when Obama traipsed around the country and desperately pleaded with Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton because his agenda and his legacy were on the ballot? He made a similar pitch before the shellacking his party took in the 2014 congressional elections. Yet did he acknowledge after this 2014 failing that he had anything to do with it? Does he own up to his leading role in last months presidential election? Lets rewind the tape further to Obamas reaction to his partys stunning defeat in the 2010 congressional elections which was largely about Obamacare. He didnt acknowledge any personal culpability for visiting that monstrosity on the American people through trickery and deceit. He simply lamented that he hadnt done a good enough job getting the message out to the American people about it despite his 50 propaganda speeches trying to persuade us to ignore our lying eyes. Do you see the pattern here? Obamas view is that the American people -- those in the red states anyway -- are a little slow paranoid and bigoted and need to be brought along carefully into the 21st century where progressivism has ushered in a new age of enlightenment. His only failing has been in inadequately re-educating the bitter clingers. Let me give you another example. Remember Obamas depiction of the Islamic State group as a JV team? How about his claim the night before the terrorist massacres in Paris that the Islamic State was contained? Did he ever acknowledge his errors there? No. Again his only failing was in not having communicated sufficiently his counterterrorism strategies to the American people. He said his strategy against the Islamic State was working. (This was before as I recall his admission that he had no policy.) The problem was that saturated media coverage after the Paris attacks was fueling terror fears in the United States. He said: We havent on a regular basis I think described all the work that weve been doing for more than a year now to defeat the Islamic State. If youve been watching television for the last month all youve been seeing all youve been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you. And so I understand why people are concerned about it. Again theres nothing to see here. Its not a terrorism problem but a perception problem. Theres no Obamacare problem; its just that the American people dont get it. Even liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd acknowledged in 2012 that Obama and his wife Michelle are condescending and aloof. The Obamas do believe in American exceptionalism -- their own and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated she wrote. The Obamas havent disappointed Americans; we disappointed them. Even earlier in February 2010 Obama pledged to listen to Republicans at a health care summit. But as columnist Joseph Curl wrote turns out he meant hed be listening to his own voice. By the end of the televised event Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes -- nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes. And why do the rubes keep misperceiving Obamas greatness? Fox News Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity. In a recently published interview with Rolling Stone Obama denied that he and his party overlooked the cohort of working-class white voters that supposedly accounted for Donald Trumps victory. Absolutely not his fault. Part of it said Obama is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grass-roots level being in there showing up making arguments. The challenge Democrats have according to Obama is not that theyve neglected these communities from a policy perspective. What is true though is that whatever policy prescriptions that weve been proposing dont reach are not heard by the folks in these communities. And what they do hear is Obama or Hillary are trying to take away (your) guns or they disrespect you. I repeat: This guy is remarkably incorrigibly consistent. He has made no policy errors; his message just isnt getting through partly because the conservative media are lying about it and partly because people are just too darned dense. I hate to keep bringing up the past but his war on the conservative media is nothing new either. I wrote about it in 2010 in my book Crimes Against Liberty. He began snubbing Fox reporters at news conferences for insufficiently pandering. The White House blog regularly denounced Fox News and other critics. White House communications director Anita Dunn recommended a rapid response to counteract Foxs blows against the administration calling Fox News part of the Republican Party. Presidential adviser David Axelrod said Fox News Channel is not really a news station. Remember when Obamacares principal architect Jonathan Gruber openly admitted that the Obama administration was able to deceive the American people about Obamacare and chalked it up to the stupidity of the American voter? So go ahead and cry us a river about how the conservative media are mistreating you Mr. Obama and misleading the public. You have been trying to deceive us for eight years and the public has been onto you for at least 6 1/2 of those years. Now voters have handed you your biggest spanking yet and you still will not listen. You cant listen. Its not what you do. But the American people have been listening and they do understand your policies. And its a new day in America.