On the loss of Obama message to voters, and upcoming mid-term election...

The mid-term election this year is next Tuesday, and Democrats are bracing themselves for heavy losses and loss of the Senate majority. It's all too easy to blame it as a communication problem, as Democrats and Obama cohorts alike have tried hard to tell voters that the pain that they are feeling shouldn't really be so bad. Obama kept throwing facts at voters, telling them that the help to Wall Street have really made (rather than lost) money. Obama even got on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to "connect" to the younger voters who are supposed to be his mainstay, insisting that the hopes and change that he ran his presidential campaign on were high bar, and that while he promised to deliver change, he didn't promise the change to be done in 18 months (his time in the White House so far). It sounds pathetic, reminding me of the I-smoke-but-I-didn't-inhale argument by Bill Clinton.

All of these have an ounce of truth in it. I don't understand why it's so hard for Obama and the Democrats to understand that it's not enough to just tell people that they are better off now, because statistics show the economy is on the mend. How can you explain that to someone who has lost their job and can't find another one in 2+ years, and still think that it's a communication problem? There is simply no argument, that people are worse off now than they were, when the recession started to take hold, starting Oct 2008?

There is also truth in the statement that most jobs that have gone overseas will never come back, as most people already know that already, as a result of globalization. It's an unfortunate chain of events that deliver this blunt fact to most people, when the economy went downhill and alot of good jobs were axed, all at once, which started with the subprime crisis in Oct 2008.

It's not a communication problem either, that Wall Street has bounced back readily and quickly, after Washington has tried every means to prop it up. Corporate earnings are rising. Stock markets are zigzagging back upward. Without Washington's help, both Wall Street and main street would have limped along together. Now, the Wall Street bunny has leaped forward, but the main street turtle is left crawling, one inch at a time. And that, is the perception that no spinning could have shaken it. In fact, that is the perceived injustice that makes people angry, even those like me who earn six-figures and have weathered this recession unscathed so far. Afterall, the taxpayers are the ones who pay those goddamn politicians in Washington, and who have picked up the tab in the Wall Street bailout. But the lower strata of taxpaying public is the one who are caught with their pants down, and who are blamed (rightly or wrongly) for spending beyond their means.

As for me, I feel angry too, mostly due to the ineptness and ineffectiveness of Washington, and that special interests and lobbyists still rule Washington. As an Independent, it doesn't really matter if Dem or GOP are in office, because the callousness and ineffectiveness are more or less the same, although GOP is arguably less appetizing for their relentless push for less regulations, which left Wall Street and big corporates like Big Oil, unchecked. So, I'm very ready to vote any independents who can offer an alternative to GOP or Dem.


PS: Sorry, no Tea Party, who are for headlines grabbers and illiterate, and who can't even hold a rational argument. I simply cannot stand irrationals, like Sarah Palin or Christine O'Donnell.