Politics and Money

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Oh dear. Our awesome president seems to have made a mistake.

Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.

Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): “I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

Boil those four sentences down even further and here’s what you are left with: “Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”
There you go, GOP ad producers — the ominous 14 words, courtesy of Barack Obama himself: “Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

For a guy whose supporters and defenders claim is so smart, so insightful, and so politically tuned in — a guy who supposedly surrounds himself with the best and the brightest — to deliver this sort of midterms gift to his political opponents would seem to be an uncharacteristic blunder.

However, if you consider the degree to which Obama has appeared to be extraordinarily out of touch lately — exhibit #1 would be Obama’s blaming poor intelligence reports for his being caught off guard by the rapid rise of ISIS, which was easily debunked — if you consider his apparent detachment, even disinterest, you might better understand his/his speech writers’ poor choice of words and terrible timing.