Polling Lessons For Obama From Oklahoma City

>>>Will President Barack Obama's Tucson speech affect his job approval ratings? If public reaction to Bill Clinton's handling of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995 is a guide, Obama is likely experience a bump in his ratings>>>

Had Obama played it straight, had the Virginia Tech service been the model, had he just done it as a memorial and not a pep rally, had he not been laying blame for this tragedy on "heated rhetoric",  but the real source (an mentally ill young man who never should have been able to purchase firearms legally), there would be no need to criticize him or Democrats.  Certainly not by me.  

But from the early moments after the shootings, the White House and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party has trumped up a Iie, staged a response, is putting on a show in order to avoid doing what would is really called for, so as to NOT tell Americans that not only isn't there any money for expanded mental health services (and that politician­s are in bed with the gvn lobby, so nobody is going to outlaw extended magazine clips or ban the sales of weapons to the mentally ill), but social service programs and all kinds of other government services are on the chopping block, including Social Security and Medicare.
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