More Revealing than He Will Ever Know -- Axelrod Admits Mistakes

In Newsweek, Eleanor Clift has an interview with David Axelrod that focuses on the first two of the Obama years and the prospects for the 2012 presidential election. Most of it is the usual stuff, but there is one moment where the quintessential Obama Administration viewpoint is exhibited. Axelrod is asked the following question and gives the following answer:

"Can you identify any mistakes over the past two years?

There are things I would have liked to have messaged differently...."

There you have it -- the Obamacrats in a nutshell. with all the problems of the last two years (like the atrocious and disorganized response to the Gulf oil spill, the inability to generate new jobs, and the like), the big mistake that Axelrod points to is the failure to message properly. He actually thinks that the problem is that the Democrats did not tell people the right thing, not that they did not do the right thing.

If anyone ever needed clear proof why Obama and his crew have to go, this is it. These folks do not consider their lack of competence or their policies as possible problems; it is only their messaging that matters.