OPINION: Voters certainly are thinking ‘clearly’

Out on the campaign trail trying to drum up support for Democrats who are coming under heavy Republican challenge, Mr. Obama told a crowd last weekend that his party is in trouble because the public is scared and that “we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.”

So that’s it — Republicans are gaining ground not because the public is repudiating the president’s policies, but rather because voters are too scared to know how to vote.

That is about the most arrogant, bone-headed comment we’ve heard yet from a president who has often made arrogant comments about those with whom he disagrees. President Obama is obviously important to himself. One wonders if the White House is really large enough to contain his ego.

No, Mr. President, voters are not acting out of fear; they’re acting out of a sense that you have got it all wrong. The “change” you promised was not the change a majority of Americans wanted. The bailouts and health care mandates and other left-leaning policies are not what most Americans expected.

The problem here is that President Obama has no background in the real world.

From community organizer to politics, the president has done nothing in his life other than exist on a government payroll. He’s never run a business, never had to follow illogical government mandates and never done anything other than live off taxpayer money.

No wonder he wants to explain away voter anger not because of his own failures, but rather because voters aren’t thinking “clearly.”

Yes, they are, Mr. President.

Perhaps if you got off that monument you have built for yourself in your own mind, you would see just why the electorate is so darn mad.

The blame is staring back at you every morning in the mirror. How dare you blame voters for fighting back.