Reply #26: Obama could have achieved significant change by going [View All]

[JDPriestly]

directly to the people far more frequently during his first to years.

He did too much sitting down with insurance company big-wigs and members of Congress. He should have been out in public educating people.

I remember a time a few months into Obama's presidency when pundits began to criticize him for being on TV to much.

Obama responded by going on TV less often. That was a huge, huge mistake. Obama needs to be the teacher-in-chief of the country. He explains things very effectively. That's why the pundits didn't want him in their space.

Obama needs to get a better team so that he doesn't constantly have to put out fires like the BP mess and so that he can get on TV and educate Americans about why Rand Paul's vision for our country will make things much worse, not much better.

The next two years are going to be tough for Obama. I am hoping that he has finally figured out that he will get no cooperation from Republicans in Congress unless he, Obama, organizes a tea party of his own by getting his grass-roots people excited about what he proposes to do. That means Obama will have to forget about working with drunks like Boehner and start going to the districts of the congressmembers who do not work with him.

It wasn't that the Democratic base was unwilling to support Obama. It was that Obama ignored his base.