The Era of the Obama 'Blank Screen' is Over

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American Thinker:



Mr. Obama presented himself as a blank slate to the American public. A Real Clear Politics piece by Froma Harrop notes the way in which Obama saw himself relating to the public:

What Obama really thinks should be done about health care and the terrorist threat remain secrets that his book [Audacity of Hope] does not unlock. His two years in the Senate certainly haven't revealed any bold policy ideas.

This leave-them-guessing strategy slips out in the book's prologue. "I serve as a blank screen," Obama writes, "on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." He notifies readers that "my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete."


Inasmuch as the press refused to vet and investigate Candidate Obama, he certainly was a "blank screen" to the uninformed in 2008.


Yet, it's curious that Obama and his fans in the media still believe that the vehicle of the blank screen is operable. Time Magazine's recent photoshopped cover showing Ronald Reagan approvingly embracing Obama is such an example.

Mr. Obama said that "people of vastly different political stripes [can] project their own views" onto him. Time's insinuation that Reagan would "love" Obama is not a projection of the Time Magazine editors -- for they are not conservatives. Time is simply acting as a facilitator. The magazine is saying to gullible conservatives and moderates: "hey, you can still project your political views onto Obama. Mr. Obama can even be Reagan, if you wish."

We've witnessed Obama for two years ramming through radical, far-left appointments and bills by unscrupulous means, against the will of the electorate. In light of his brass-knuckles approach and leftist agenda, it's truly astonishing that the media somehow believe Obama can remain all things to all people.

As Mr. Obama went on to expound on the "principles" that made America great, the Chamber speech became noticeably creepy as the president demonstrated that he knows little about free market principles. The president's alleged JFK moment was more of desperate demand for business to do something to help Obama look good than anything else.

Instead, the president gave another "good speech." In the past Obama could speak partially and incompletely, leaving the audience to project onto the screen whatever it wished.

But Obama is no longer a blank screen in front of a teleprompter. The screen now plays back his words and deeds of the last two years in high definition.