Too Much of a Bad Thing. Por Mark Steyn.
So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”
But you schlubs aren’t that smart. You didn’t get it. And Barack Obama is determined to see that you do. So the president has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”
Wait, wait! Come back! Don’t all stampede for the hills! He only gave (according to CBS News’s Mark Knoller) 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year. That’s more than any previous president — and maybe more than all of them put together.
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“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” said Obama. “People are angry and they’re frustrated, not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
Got it. People are so angry and frustrated at George W. Bush that they’re voting for Republicans. In Massachusetts. Boy, I can’t wait for that 159th interview.
Presumably, the president isn’t stupid enough actually to believe what he said. But it’s dispiriting to discover he’s stupid enough to think we’re stupid enough to believe it.
Pedro Sette-Câmara
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Para nos animar um pouco!!!
Mario Vargas Llosa refere na edição de hoje do jornal “EL PAÍS” a propósito das eleições Presidenciais no Chile que deram a vitória ao candidato da direita, Sebastian Piñera, que num encontro que teve com este, três dias antes do acto eleitoral, lhe perguntou qual queria que fosse a sua melhor contribuição no governo se ganhasse as eleições. “Dar um impulso decisivo ao nosso plano de oito anos, para crescer a um prometido 6% anual, algo perfeitamente realizável. Se o conseguirmos, o PIB, que é agora de 14.000 dólares terá um aumento para 24.000. Alcançamos Portugal”, Chile deixará então o subdesenvolvimento e será o primeiro país da América Latina a integrar o primeiro mundo.
Tendo o nosso governo copiado o modelo Chileno de Avaliação de Professores, eis senão quando que passamos a ser o modelo a seguir.
Um abraço,
Pedro Nunes
Comentário por pereiradasilva — Janeiro 24, 2010 @ 23:47