President Obama, one of the vainest politicians in the last ten years, has finally admitted one mistake that he made — although there are many more he needs to acknowledge, like the failed stimulus, the rise in unemployment, and even more so for minorities, as well as the inconsistent taxation, regulation, and outrageous spending which is sinking this country deeper into the red.
My first mistake was thinking that this job was about getting the policy right."
In fact, Obama is correct. This is no mistake. The problem which the President refuses to accept is that his policies are unpopular and unfeasible. He remains a stalwart adherent to the Keynesian model of deficit spending to jumpstart the flagging economy, when those policies have been discredited for decades, all the more because the gross superabundance of spending has created nothing but debt, deficits, and dysfunction.
"The nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American People."
President Obama has been telling the voters in this country a story, one in which government will play a larger role in the economy, in public policy, in education. Yet each of these interventions is causing more problems, with hyperinflation eating away at the savings and security of hardworking, responsible, and attentive Americans.
The president asserted that he wanted to promote "a sense of unity and optimism", yet the opposite has occurred, disillusioning the minorities and youth masses who ran to his cause in 2008, swept up in the "We are the change we have been waiting for" rhetoric.
Romney attacked the president's notion of failure — "The presidency is not about telling stories — but about leading." Exactly. Even a politician who is slated to persuade his party and his country must lead when treading out his story to the public. Sadly, more often than note Obama has gone around promoting himself and hyping up himself, as if he himself can sell his policies.
His ideas do not sell well, and thus neither does the President.
President Obama was telling a story from the moment that he ran for office, convinced that the was the solution to America's problems, taking the 53% popular vote as a mandate from the American People to push one of the most aggressively progressive agendas in the last fifty years. He was the story, and the American people no longer want to listen. The American voters did not like in 2010, they do not like it now, and they will no longer have to tolerate it after November, when voters engage in another of hope and change leaders for real leadership, one who will persuade and lead in accordance with the Constitution and the traditions which made this country great.