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Okay, Obama administration, it’s time to get busy bragging. It’s time to get out there, stick your chest out, and take a page from the Republicans-go sell the hell out of your accomplishments (only you’ll actually have real accomplishments to sell). This administration has been far too humble for far too long. They need to get the drop on Republicans by taking full credit and making sure it’s known that these economic gains occurred under a Democratic president and Congress, that the stimulus and policies put in place by this president worked. It needs to be known that the last time we created as many jobs as we did in December was under the last Democratic president. Don’t let these hucksters come along and claim responsibility for the economic gains as they did under Clinton. Let it be known that it was Democrats and President Barack Obama who dug us out of the grave Republicans buried us in.
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Second it, Plucky.
Even if it means wading upstream againt the MSM.
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And the Republican response: These great economic indicators are complete lies cooked up by Democrats to cover up their massive failure, and besides Republicans deserve all the credit for these great economic indicators.
It’s all too predictable. With apologies to Frank Luntz, at this point an algorithm could write talking points for Reince Priebus and Fox News.
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Have you noticed that since Obama officially announced he was all out of fucks to give the MSM has adopted a completely different narrative? No longer is he the weak, drag on the ticket, lame duck president. He’s now getting fairly positive press. If the administration would get out there and REALLY sell their accomplishments the MSM would jump on that bandwagon as well.
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Positive indicators galore. That takes a hell of a lot of denial to deny.
Its black and white, not talking skin here, and all that needs to be done are simple comparisons. We can start from the final Clinton years through all of bush’s and up until now or we can go way back to the Golden Calf Reagan. Or or, we can just start when President Obama took over what was dumped upon us and go quarter by quarter, year by year, or just one measurement of then 'til now.
However the cheese is sliced, the mold has faded away and we are back to eating some sharp ass American cheese. (nice analogy huh)
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Yea but its all those icky, socialist Kenyan, anti-colonialist kind of private sector jobs.
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Yeah but, icky sells and that boosts the economy. Drats, the Repubs can’t win for losing.
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It’s funny how everything is the best since Clinton was President…
…and the GOTP claims credit.
Of course.
It isn’t so much the administration who’s reluctant to sell their accomplishments, it’s more Democrats in Congress.
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But have you noticed that when the president does tout his accomplishments, the media portrays it as “gloating” or doing an “end zone dance”? Or they find an unemployed ex-Obama supporter to badmouth “hope and change”?
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I really really really wish it were true that the economy is getting better and that we could thank the Democrats for getting us there, it simply is not true. Take for example the average hourly wage increase, as I read this site:
[http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx][1]
14 states increased their minimum wage effective January 1. The actual measured unemployment rate is up but somehow this is seen as an increase in workforce participation, go figure.
The world economy remains on the brink, and the middle class are loosing ground everyday.
The economy is very much worse than is generally stated by the MSM.
[1]: http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx
I think it’s both. I have seen/read more than a few comments from WH insiders who say the reason the administration has been reticent to tout their accomplishments is because they know there are so many folks out there who are still hurting. They’re afraid of insulting or seeming to disregard those folks by talking about their economic successes. But, again, now that Obama is fresh out of shits, hopefully, they’ll continue to stick their chests out and pat themselves on the back.
Absolutely. That’s been the case the last two years or so, but we do seem to have turned a corner where the narrative is “Obama’s strong”. This would be a good time for the administration and Democrats in Congress to seize the narrative and build on it by praising the president’s economic recovery.
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Agree, and I think that message will be part of a build-up to 2016.
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Thanks Obama!
</mock teabagger indignation>
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Don’t worry, wing-nuts, the Republicans in Congress will make sure this doesn’t last. After all, they need a bad economy to get voters to vote in desperation for their crazy ideas.
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Put banana to head, pull trigger.
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Sadly, Obama has had to spend his entire presidency cleaning up the Bush disaster, like Bill Clinton had to do, while parts of the country are considering seriously voting for ANOTHER Bush in 2016.
If we can’t learn from experience, then maybe the great American idea of constitutional government deserves to expire.
Republicans aren’t even done bitching about the chlorine yet, they’re so eager to crap in the pool again.
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