What we got here is a failure to communicate
By Lynn Woolley
AUSTIN Texas (Texas Insider Report) The venerable CBS Sunday show Face the Nation" has turned 60 and used the occasion to score
an interview with President Obama. The President told Bob Schieffer that his policies are fine. Its just that the politics" was not
up to par. The president that likes to
blame his failures on others blamed his communications staff for not selling Obama-ism to the public.
President Obamas communications skills and those of his team are just fine. The problem that finally came back to haunt Mr. Obama in this election cycle is the fact that nothing is working.
The famous reset" with Russia produced a disaster in Crimea and Ukraine. The economy while growing should be producing higher-paying jobs. It turns out that the people didnt want Obamacare after all.
Were not going to defend spokesmen like Jay Carney (at left) Josh Ernest or Jen Psaki. They are weak to a fault. Nor can we defend Obama staffers like Susan Rice John Kerry or Chuck Hagel. But what exactly did they have to
work with?
Forget scandals like Benghazi and the IRS. Obamas actual polices like Obamacare the way he ended" wars instead of winning them the failed stimulus the alternative energy scheme and now executive amnesty and climate change are hard to sell.
But look what happened when Obama was selling the War on Women" to the electorate in 2012.
Obamas crack team of spinners had no trouble at all convincing the American people that Republicans wanted to stop women from obtaining birth control or that Democrats believed they should get it for free. Obama is in fact a politician that can sell ice to Eskimos until they discover that they really didnt want any ice.
This is a man who is so ideologically wedded to liberal ideas that he cannot bring himself to admit that any of them failed. Theres an old saying that if a liberal policy doesnt work and you ask a liberal why not?" he will tell you that it didnt have enough funding.
Mr. Obama has found a new excuse. His PR team didnt sell" it. Essentially hes using the old line from Cool Hand Luke."
What we got here is a failure to communicate."
Never mind the fact that President Reagans policies worked and the people noticed. When Reagan was in office the media mocked his Strategic Defense Initiative as Star Wars." But Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Reagan also made America proud.
A line from the Charlie Daniels song In America" went:
Were walking real proud and were talking real loud again In America."
Reagans policies in spite of unbridled hatred from the mainstream media that tried to portray Mr. Reagan as a doofus did not need a big communications team to sell them. Thats because they delivered what Mr. Reagan promised.
Similarly the American would people would like such policies as higher taxes more regulations that make it harder for businesses (including small ones) to operate IF they made the country as a whole more prosperous. But Mr. Obamas ideas are not about prosperity. They are about fairness equality and social justice.
President Obama is all about righting perceived wrongs against poor minorities and against poor countries that he believes were looted by the United States on its way to becoming rich. Therefore he is making corrections.
The vote this year was all about how the people liked those corrections. Election returns told the story: They didnt like them much at all.
Mr. Obamas party suffered blowout losses not because of a failure of politics but because of the failure of policies.
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based syndicated talk-show host and author who blogs at WBDaily.com. The Lynn Woolley Radio Program is carried live on T-SPAN or can be heard Monday-Friday from 8:00 am 11:00 am in Lubbock-Amarillo (KVOP 1090) Midland-Odessa (KCRS 550) Waco (KBBW 1010) & Temple-Killeen-Ft. Hood (KTEM 1400) and Navasota (KWBC 1550).
