http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/axelrod-obamas-approval-rating-in-the-toilet-because-voters-lack-brain-power-to-appreciate-how-smart-he-isVia Washington Examiner:
President Obama’s approval ratings continue to sink to fresh lows as a growing number of Americans turn away from the harbinger of the tired and worn-out message of “hope and change.”
But it’s not because of the White House’s ham-fisted handling of a myriad of scandals, including the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, the National Security Agency’s ever-growing surveillance program, the White House’s decision to circumvent Congress and release five Taliban officers in exchange Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl or the still-brewing scandal involving the Department of Veterans Affairs.
No, here love died between voters and the president because he’s just too darn complex, or so says David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to the president.
National Review’s Rich Lowry flagged this gem of a quote in a recent New York Times article:
Reagan significantly changed the trajectory of the country for better and worse. But he restored a sense of clarity. Bush and Cheney were black and white, and after them, Americans wanted someone smart enough to get the nuances and deal with complexities. Now I think people are tired of complexity and they’re hungering for clarity, a simpler time. But that’s going to be hard to restore in the world today.