George, I can prove I have the numbers on my side. Would you like me to? Would you like me to establish with absolute certainty that the numbers are on my side? Okay, then, sit down, make your self comfortable, and waith for it: OBAMA WAS ELECTED WITH A CLEAR MAJORITY ON A MANDATE FOR CHANGE!
Yes, that's right, people came out of the woodwork embracing the hope he offered, many voting for the first time ever, many shedding years and years of cynicism, many who for the first time who embraced the hope, who believed, "yes we can", who not only shed the cynicism, who not only voted, but who also volunteered. They are the numbers. They made Obama president. It is to them Obama is acxcountable, not Wall Street, not the generals, not the haters in Alabama and Kentucky. It is those people who Obama owed a fight, and owed a unwavering commitment to the campiagn promises and vows he made. It is those people he has betrayed over and over again without so much as even an acknowledgement. It is those who you are telling, on behalf of Obama, "sorry, but really we never could", who will return to the woodwork their cynicism justified and their hope extinguished.
Obama, Geirge, failed them while he proved the power of a marketing message. Good for him, Madison Ave. and eventually the Republicans, bad for America and bad for the world.