Obama

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

He let the conversation get away from him? How many press conferences and townhalls has he had on the issue?

All way too late. By the time he was having them, there were already piles of lies out there that people were ready to stand up and shout angrily at him. I knew he'd lost the fight when he put out the pathetic request for people to send wrong-sounding things they'd heard to the white house email. They should have been out there hearing them for themselves and responding. By the time they were asking to be sent them, it was WAAAY too late.

And defend it as "freedom of speech" all you want, the fact is that the conservative movement has all but cornered the market on generating outrage and yelling half-truths and/or lies as an ends to a means. Conservative voices dominate the talk radio dial. And personally I'm glad that people who hold opinions closer to mine (liberals) simply aren't as good at that game. Liberals don't have the taste for the format the way conservatives to, to make a generalized statement. Just look at Keith Olbermann's ratings. He's undoubtedly just as skilled as O'Reilly or Beck, and I do find I agree with and am entertained by much of what he says. But he grew old for me very quickly and I don't think I'm alone. It just doesn't work for his potential audience, they don't buy into the outrage. But there are consequences to that, and I was hoping that Obama would find a way to inject his attitude of reason into the debate rather than just sit back and let it steamroll him like so many others before.