Our President finally sounds like a Democrat and for that, I am grateful.
Last night's speech was a good one: read it here, or better still, watch it.
The only thing that worries me--other than the fact that 461 billion dollars is not much to work with given a 15 trillion dollar economy--is the fact that it took the Dems 3 years to come up with a jobs bill that actually had the word "jobs" in it.
Dems, listen to a man who interned at a PR firm in his youth. It's all about the story behind the story. In this case, the story is that Obama wants you to have a job. The story behind the story is a disfunctional economic policy. Believe it or not, people will get that if you say it often enough.
Remember above all that hearts and minds do not win themselves and the Republicans have a 40-year head-start on you. They are greedy, lying, cheating, remorseless cretins but they have their story down pat (government is bad. Really, really bad. Deadly, even. To you! ) and they stick to it.
Do better.
Speaking of the story behind the story: something else that's been making the rounds of news these past few days is a report by a former GOP Congressional staffer, appropriately titled Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult. Absolutely required reading to get a handle on what the disloyal opposition does, why and how.
In other news, a few of us at chez Frater are planning to start a small press. I'll write more on that in a future post, after we've though about it a little more.
For today: Happy Friday.
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