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Opinion: Why Is Obama Still Talking About 'Change'?

by Michael Medved, Contributor to AOLNews.com

(Oct. 11) -- "Let's show Washington one more time, change doesn't come from the top," President Barack Obama told an eager audience at the University of Wisconsin in the first of a series of rallies meant to recapture the magic of his presidential campaign. "Change happens because of you! Change happens because of you! Change happens because of you!"

Does this mean that his one-time supporters should blame themselves rather than the president and his allies for the disappointments of the last two years?

President Obama's plea to "keep believing that change is possible" might seem appropriate from an insurgent candidate or activist outsider long excluded from the corridors of power, but it sounds bizarre coming from the chief executive.

Obama can't credibly pose as protester rather than president.

But he keeps trying, nevertheless.

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But two years later, overwhelming majorities believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, and Obama's energetic campaigning can't conceal the fact that the president played the commanding role in setting the country on its current course.

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This is a good article. Medved captures specifics around what I've said in a previous post.  Obama is caught in the impact of his own rhetoric.  It is what I call 'fifth discipline' at the national level. Push it too far, the pendulum swings.

The remedy for the Dems (and possibly the POTUS) is specifics... but how to introduce specifics when they have suffered such big blows on credibility these past two years? 

The disconnect with the electorate was mostly the fault of the POTUS... you cannot promise utopia in an era of obvious downturn.  When people return to the realities of the earth from the dreams of utopia, everything looks a lot uglier... That's mostly the fault of the POTUS.