You guys don’t expect Obama to mention George Floyd on the anniversary of his death?
Team Blue understands at this point that it has alienated the overall law enforcement vote ( Defund The Police, unchecked looting and rioting, "bail reform", public policy designed to benefit career criminals, smearing the Border Patrol, painting the entire profession as White Nationalist oriented and driven, etc, etc) and the entire military vote ( Afghanistan, COVID19 vaccine mandates, inflation)
Mentioning George Floyd by Obama's media staff is a flailing attempt to try to recoup some suburban women voters and working class minority voters,
particularly the Hispanic/Latino vote, and the large swells of independents and moderates out there by castigating Republicans as xenophobic.
The Democratic Party, especially the Progressive wing, is prone to high level voter apathy. This hurt Hillary Clinton badly. Many traditional liberals or those who leaned center/left really disliked Trump but they couldn't stomach Hillary Clinton and just didn't show up to vote.
The hard push on abortion rights and now gun control are Hail Marys to try to keep Team Blue's base engaged and just to show up to the voting booth at all.
This failed the "Bounce Back Test"
When a media release is curated, it's gauged for all possible counter narratives, which then would require hard prepping the next response. This is no different than when Peter Doocy and/or Jacqui Heinrich asked Jen Psaki a tough question, they had 50 more questions prepared based on the variations of answers they expected to received. Based on how defensible you can spin something against the counter narrative, then you decide whether you should run the originally conceived press release at all.
In this case, if the majority of the MSM wasn't activist complicit to lean hard left, that would be Operation Fast And Furious. That's Obama's legacy with "gun control" that is ugly and indefensible and dovetails into both the Border Crisis but also the fentynal crisis. The latter reaches back into George Floyd's own drug history and drug abuse while being an absentee black father. ( A source of great tension within the overall black community in general and could trigger some voters to sit the Mid Terms out) Then there is Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was killed with one of the guns , paid for with our tax dollars no less, that Obama ordered Eric Holder to literally give to the Sinaloa drug cartel. And it was Border Patrol who shot down the active shooter just a couple of days ago.
Obama's media team simply tried to hit the gas and power through the bounce back test because Team Blue is desperate and they don't have a choice. Their polling numbers are historically bad. Identity politics drove everything and the only "wins" in their endless culture war might be seen as a few Pyrrhic victories for the LGBT community, which are votes they already had secured anyway.
You want to avoid the reality that it's a media strategy. One that accepts the loss of two massive voting blocks as implied. And you want to avoid that it's horrifically bad media strategy built on desperation.
If you deliver wins for the everyday working class American citizen and their children, and keep doing it, you don't need to cook up pathetic media spin control, you just need to tell the truth. That you kept your promises and made their lives better. That's what many of you radical leftists here don't get or refuse to accept - You don't need to play a long the sides and against the margins if you just do your job the way it's actually supposed to be done.
Obama's tweets are about on par with Adam Gase's press conferences when he was head coach of the New York Jets.
Both make Rich Kotite look smart. How pathetic is that.
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