From the ABC News website (emphasis added):
“The president’s going to explain why he thinks the American people are angry and frustrated,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on “Good Morning America” today.
“Many of the same factors that led Sen. [Scott] Brown to become a senator from Massachusetts led Barack Obama to become president. Now, we’ve got to deal with those angers and frustrations by putting people back to work, by demonstrating we have a plan to get our economy continued on the road to recovery and putting those folks back to work, and protecting our country from those who seek to do us harm.”
Two observations. First, why is that when a liberal idea is rejected it is the consequence of “anger” at the wrong target, but when a conservative idea is rejected it is “speaking truth to power”? Notice, liberal ideas are never rejected for reasons, and conservative ideas are never accepted but for unreason. If you believe this, you are living in denial, for it means that you have insulated yourself from correction and repentance, from the healing of mind and soul. And that’s not a good thing. Second, the President, according to Mr. Gibbs, will tell us this evening what really lurks in the hearts of those that make up the population whose support for his policies is dwindling at an alarming pace. Apparently, the President has some secret knowledge about the inner lives of vast numbers of the American public, insights that are undetectable by we ordinary humans who are limited by our five senses and cognitive faculties. So, if you think you know what you believe about the President’s policies, your self-knowledge may be mistaken. Tonight, thankfully, the President will reveal to us what we really believe.
“He did not need human testimony about them, for he knew what was in their hearts.” – John 2.24