Jon Walker is a Dumb Mother F***er

In a post entitled Trying to Take Health Care Out of the 2012 Election Jon Walker made this f***ing idiotic bold statement:

Despite claims that Obamacare would become popular after it was passed and promises that the Democratic leadership would keep fighting hard to win the PR war over the law, it has remained very unpopular. With the law designed to not even begin trying to make good on its big promises until over a year after the 2012 election, there is just no reason to believe the law is going to get popular by the election.

It seems the Obama team has basically made the calculation that they simply can’t win on this issue so they can only try to minimize the amount the issue of health care will be talking about.

At the time I called bulls**t:

This bill will not be “run” from because there’s no reason to run from it. When Romney or Newt says they will end “Obamacare” President Obama will be able to say “Oh, really? how will that play to the seniors, students and small business owners that are currently USING the bill”.

 Now, a little less than three months later, with Obama's campaign just beginning, there is proof that I was right and Jon Walker was wrong.  Here's three thirty second videos of them most definitely NOT minimizing health care talk:

 In this article,  TPM  breaks down President Obama's  much-advertised full video, The Road We've Traveled, into a handy graph:

As you can see, the video spoke about health reform for a 194 seconds, almost 20% of the entire video.  He spoke of this more than any other accomplishment.  Far from avoiding the issue, all evidence shows that he is highlighting it.

I can't even gloat about being right.. I'm not intelligent in believing that President Obama cannot run from health care even if he desired it.  Jon Walker is an idiot for believing that he could or that he would even try. That he would employ a  "What Hump?" strategy for the 2012 election.   That he could somehow avoid discussing an issue he worked on for almost an entire year. Just, you know, not mention it, and hope that the Republicans don't mention it either.  I guess it would look something like this:

But let's be kind.  Kinder than Jane Hamsher was to Obama supporters when she referred to all of us as "Dumb Mother-f***ers".  Let's generously assume for a moment that Jon knew that President Obama could not avoid health care during the campaign.  So why advance that supposition?

Because the supposition advances a narrative.  Which is basically what Fire Dog Lake is all about.  Which is what Fox News is all about.  Does Fox News really believe that President Obama cannot speak without a Teleprompter?  No, they've seen him out-debate Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the Republican Congressional Caucus.  They've seen him have one successful press conference after another, all without a teleprompter anywhere in sight.  Why do they keep saying it when they know it's wrong?  Because it advances their narrative that the President is not really that intelligent and is in way over his head.

When Jon Walker advances the notion that the President is going to try to avoid talking about health care during the campaign he is doing so, not because he feels it to be true but it because it advances his narrative.  That the law itself is a disaster to be run from rather than an accomplishment to embrace.  That the health care law is an albatross to President Obama.

Jon Walker is proven wrong now.  Not just on the President avoiding health care but on the polling for the health care law which now shows a majority of people favoring the law.   But he will never admit it.  Like a good "Fair and Balanced"  Fox-Left pundet he'll just find some other way to disparage the President.  It's advancing the narrative, not stating the truth that matters to the Fox-Left.