Obama’s Latest Monumental Blunder

Posted by in Blog on September 20, 2012 5:52 pm / 4 comments

Yes, I know. For it to be really monumental, the media will have to treat it as the gaffe it is. But it’s more than a gaffe, as Romney quickly pointed out, it was an admission of failure. Obama has conceded he can’t do what he was elected to do: change Washington. You know, “Hope and Change” and “we’re the change we’ve been waiting for.”?

Obama just admitted he sold the country a bill of goods in 2008, and is amazingly suggesting he should be re-elected for it.

When Team Romney, and Romney himself (see below), quickly responded Team Obama knew the One had screwed up. They were hoping the Beltway media would run interference but most of them were still trying to figure out how to spin it before Romney riffed on it during a stump speech. Team Obama was stuck. They had to respond.

How did they respond? By basically blaming the people who voted for him for his failure to change Washington. Here’s what they tweeted:

 In other words, “We can change Washington if you vote for me. We can do it together.”  

 Again, this was during a campaign speech. So the premise here is that then-candidate Obama could change Washington if the people demand it by voting for him. So they did. And now he’s saying he can’t change Washington from the inside. Basically, “I know you voted for me to change Washington, but you didn’t follow through.”

And then the coup-de-grace:

And, since Obama admitted Washington hasn’t changed, he is pinning the blame on the people who voted for him in 2008.

The Beltway Media will try to parse it and excuse it and explain it away, but Obama conceded he is not up for the job today. And in their attempt to do damage control, Team Obama sought to shift the responsibility to everyone else but him.

That’s not leadership.

Romney, on the other hand, has spent his entire adult life changing things from the inside. He did it with failing companies with Bain. He save the Salt Lake City Olympics which was on the verge of collapse. And he did it in Massachussetts as Governor.

Barack Obama essentially endorsed Mitt Romney on September 12th, 2012.

UPDATE: Ben Howe slams it out of the park with a simple revision of a famous poster:

 
 

4 Comments

  1. LessGov MoreFun says:
    September 20, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Well, no surprise here. Has the guy held himself accountable to anything? We’re in a mess and he takes no responsibility. Hopefully America will wake up this time.

  2. Pragmatist says:
    September 20, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    if this is truly what constitutes a monumental gaffe to you, the conservatives are grasping sadly at pretty thin straws. You attempt to preemptively disparage the media from spinning the remarks… following paragraphs of you spinning the remarks. Neat trick.

  3. gary thompson says:
    September 20, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    Imagine if you walked into your boss’ office and stated that you failed to obtain all your important goals, you plan to fail at these goals in the future and you needed to keep your job.

    That is what Obama just did today.

    http://cosmoscon.com/2012/09/20/obama-didnt-change-that/

  4. What Mitt Romney Needs To Say | The Right Sphere says:
    September 21, 2012 at 10:18 am

    [...] Obama, for all intents and purposes, admitted in an interview that he sold the country a bill of goods in 2008. After a campaign of unicorn dreams about “Hope and Change” he finally said what those of us who opposed him back then already knew. He was never up for the job. Mitt Romney has to seize on this, and apparently he knows this because he hit Obama in a stump speech minutes after the President’s monumental gaffe. [...]

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