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Obama's latest ploy: "I was born a poor black child"

Barack Obama wants to remind us that he's felt our pain. He hopes that a return to the personal approach, where he explains his own family's hardships, will resonate with voters.

Forget Cloward-Piven, this is the Navin Johnson strategy. And if it smells of desperation, well that's because desperation is looming large.

"I think we've lost the president's personal narrative in the story he's been telling about the economy," a senior administration official conceded Tuesday. "We recognize that. And you are going to see a change."

Yeah, 17 vacations and a jaunt to the Spanish Riviera will tend to downplay the "just folks" aspect of Barry and Michelle's charmed life. Just how many mansions has Tony Rezko bought for poor black kids from Honolulu's projects anyway? Hasn't every struggling family been handed a $300,000 no-show job at the University of Chicago Medical Center?

I got mine just last week! How about you?

All the new narratives in the world can't change the facts on the ground. And those facts are grim. The "real" unemployment rate exceeds 20 percent. One sixth of us are on public assistance. Lenders aren't lending, businesses aren't expanding, consumers aren't buying, and investors are hoarding gold.

Barry actually thinks telling us how tough he had it growing up is going to make us feel all warm and fuzzy about re-electing his Congressional Clown Show?

I can just hear him now, "I walked to school in the snow! Ten miles! And it was uphill both ways!"

Spare me.

(Via Memeorandum)

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