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About those "Idiot Boards"
Part Two of Three By Dave Andrusko It's amazing what you can learn watching CNN on the tread mill at the local gym. Just as I was trying my best to persuade my ancient body to move in a slightly upwards direction, former Vice President Walter Mondale appeared on Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" program.
I once wrote about the 2002 debate he had with Republican Norm Coleman. Mondale had been drafted to run at the last minute after the incumbent Democratic senator was tragically killed in a plane crash. (http://www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL11/edita.html). Outmatched and ill-prepared, it was a very sad ending to a career that extended back decades, including an overwhelming loss in 1984 to Ronald Reagan. They don't come much more partisan than "Fritz" Mondale. So when he critiqued fellow pro-abortion Democrat President Barack Obama for his reliance on the "idiot boards" (the TelePrompter], you know Mondale must be as exasperated as the rest of us are by the President's annoying-beyond-words practice. Mondale's preliminary point was actually absolutely on the money. When your head is bobbing like a metronome, first to the right and then to left, the entire audience knows you are playing to the camera, not to them. They--we--are just props. The consequence of Obama's reliance on the TelePromoter, according to Mondale, is, "I think he loses the connection that he needs emotionally with American voters." True, as far as it goes. However the real reason President Obama is experiencing severe disconnect with the electorate is not because he is one cold fish--unhelpful but not crucial-- but because the electorate has seen (if not him) his policies up close and personal. They see him not for how he campaigned as a candidate--the affable healer/reconciler--but for how he has governed as President--the divider whose vision of America increasingly rubs the mainstream the wrong way. If you are a Democrat running in a hostile political environment, you'd like this only to affect Obama's re-election prospects, not your own chances of returning to Washington, D.C. But as we discuss in Part Three, in voting for ObamaCare they hitched their electoral wagon to Obama's fatally flawed plan. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha
Part Three --
Why We Devote So Much
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