He needs help in messaging, help from aides who understand the message and can communicate it simply, in easily understandable words (technobabble leads to "semantics", and lies, and even more terrible lies).

But as an observer (I have no vote in the process) I say that he and his aides are doing a damn fine job.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

10. +1, an entire shit load.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 07:37 AM

Jul 2014

Larkspur

(12,804 posts)

3. Someone should tell that to Hillary Clinton

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Jul 7, 2014, 11:41 PM

Jul 2014

She's like 20 years behind the times.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

5. Let's tell it to everyone on Saturday September 13th through the election in cities across the U.S.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:20 AM

Jul 2014

GET THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
MONEY DOES NOT EQUAL SPEECH
CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
PUBLICLY FUNDED FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS!!!

Spread the word and help me get this started, thanks!

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

7. One of these days SOMEONE is going to say to the rich to put their money into PAYROLL.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:42 AM

Jul 2014

Armstead

(47,803 posts)

12. BINGO, BINGO, BINGO

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 05:13 PM

Jul 2014

We yak about government policy, infrastructure stimulus, minimum wage, educational opportunities, etc. without seeing the forest for the trees.

The solution to economic inequality, the demise of the Middle Class and the crushing of the working poor is actually really simple.

Improve our collective value system to require businesses to pay people decent wages. Accept the fact that labor and wages are not some horrid extra expense, but are part o the cost of doing business -- and that decent livable wages (a fair days pay for a dair days work) are a moral obligation.

If we as a society got back to that basic value (which was much stronger from the end of WW2 until the 1980's) it would go a long way toward fixing a whole host of problems.