What is truly telling about all of this non-communication, of which the list above is merely one example, is the clear truth that this President and this White House Staff feel no need to communicate with the public, not even with their former supporters.
"Our minds are made up; don't bother us with the facts" might be their motto. As debacle after debacle occurs, there is little if any change in policy or in direction. To take a recent example, after the Republicans got their way with the extension of all of those Bush tax cuts including the ones helping the rich to own an ever-increasing share of America, their leadership pointedly refuses to endorse the new START Treaty reducing the threat of nuclear arms here and in Russia. That stinging rebuke to Barack Obama is treated as just one more defeat in a White House for which defeats are now a way of life.
So, here is one hat in the ring of the 2012 Democratic Presidential Race , to provide an alternative to four more years of wishy-washy, weak-kneed, spineless governance. As a lifelong Democrat, member of Democratic City Committees in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and now chair of such a local committee in North Georgia, and co-chair with my wife of the 2004 Kerry Presidential Campaign in my Town of Farmington, NH, I've learned the ins-and-outs at the grassroots level of the party. As a college professor and economist, I volunteered for Bill Clinton's economic team in the 1990s and provided some key advice when his predecessor's economists misrepresented the U.S. growth rate. As an early leader in the War Against Poverty, I served on the board of one of the first community action agencies in the nation, and then became executive director of another. As an author of economic analyses, op ed articles, feature stories, and similar items for decades, I've tried to keep our focus on what really matters to America and Americans.
In 1968, working on behalf of the presidential campaign of martyred Senator Robert F. Kennedy, I recall him saying, "One man can make a difference -" and every man should try." If my candidacy helps to make that difference, it will be worthwhile. Albert Einstein was fond of saying that doing the same thing time after time, when it failed to work each time it was tried, is the height of folly -" yet that is what Barack Obama has been doing. My own philosophy is summed up by: Never Give In, Never Give Up. And I won't.
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