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Re: David Brooks to Obama: Less of your shucking and jiving, please.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This is the kind of self-referential hokum that makes the news so hard to watch. The polls put Obama and the Democrats exactly where you would expect, given the circumstance (the economy, two years into a presidency). As Adder said yesterday, Obama polls where Reagan did at this point. But a lot of people have something invested in needing to ignore this -- the media need to sell ads, conservatives want to believe that Obama's platform is unpopular -- so they do.
eta: or maybe it was Gatti
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So just because Reagan had similarly low numbers at the same point in his presidency justifies their management of perceptions? Maybe Reagan's team fucked up too, is that possible? Let's call David Stockman and ask him if Reagan made any mistakes in the first couple of years. Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I were president I would shoot for a higher ideal rather than marginalizing my expectations to the mediocrity of my predecessors. You goal setting may be done differently.
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