THE HARD BIGOTRY OF O EXPECTATIONS:

Dems find what Obama wants on healthcare still anything but clear (Jared Allen, 09/19/09, The Hill)

Democrats hope President Barack Obama will use his multiple Sunday show appearances to clarify his demands for healthcare reform. [...]

“I do believe we’re at the point of the legislative process now, or we’re quickly going to arrive there, where the president of the United States is going to have to come down to Capitol Hill and say to individual members ‘Here’s why we need an element like a public option in the plan,’” said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).

Part of the problem, Weiner said, is that instead of being a declarative statement, Obama’s speech was the equivalent of an inkblot test.

It's demonstrative of what an appallingly awful communicator he is that he has to go on 5 shows to clarify the greatest speech of his career because no one understood what he meant.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 19, 2009 5:46 PM