Special Report: Men Support Women Only Looking Forward

Men around the country are cheering loudly.  Is this exuberance due to the return of the real refs to professional football?  No.  It is because they have finally received "credible" information that women do not care about events in the past.  Women are really only concerned with what happens in the future.  Listen closely…can you hear the constant “dings” of text message and email notifications, as men across the country plan “Guys Night Out?”  The theme will undoubtedly be No Holds Barred; after all wives and girlfriends are only concerned with what men will be doing tomorrow, not what happened last night.  Foundations that have been laid for centuries are now cracked and crumbling due to one woman’s statement.  From all the wives and girlfriends in America, we would like to thank you, Stephanie Cutter.  Please consider yourself collectively flipped off by every woman in America, and many across the world.

Seems that the voice of the Obama Campaign, who apparently is now the voice of all women, Stephanie Cutter, stated during a radio interview this week that women do not care what the current administration has done, we are only concerned with what will be done in the future:

“They’re not really concerned about what’s happened

 over the last four years, they really want to know what’s

going to happen in the next four years.”

            Seriously?  What alternate universe is Ms. Cutter living in these days?  I think she should venture out of the Beltway and actually talk to real women about what they remember, and what is important to them.

            So, women around the country are clenching their fists, shaking them at Ms. Cutter, and screaming, “You do not represent me!”  The statement as it pertains to women, is another example of what has become commonplace in the Obama administration: speak without thinking, support your words vehemently, back track or retract the statement, and then blame the conservative media for taking it out of context.  Ahhh, politics.  The problem, however, does not end with how Cutter represented women.  It goes deeper, and is potentially more disturbing.

             The real problem with this statement is the fact that the Obama campaign is perpetrating a double standard in the election.

            Cutter is not the only member of the Obama campaign that is now spouting the “look forward” slogan for re-election.  This is the mantra for the entire campaign.  FORWARD. As in -do not look back.  Cutter even encouraged it, and tried to reinforce her message with an absurd statement that indicates women are essentially not critical thinkers who consider all available information when making decisions.  Her only criteria for making this statement; she is a woman, and therefore can speak for all of us.

            The Obama campaign wants Americans to look forward only.  They seem to have a “the past is in the past” attitude that conjures visions of the wizard meeting Dorothy and crew in the Emerald City – “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”  Obama would like for Americans to simply look forward, and not consider his record over the past four years.  Perhaps they should research Lou Alder’s theories on performance-based hiring.  Alder’s premise, which is often quoted (perhaps even by Mr. Obama himself - discussing Mitt Romney’s past record, of course, not Obama’s own record) that past performance is the best indicator of future performance.

            The arrogance displayed by Obama during the last election, that continued into his first days as president, is now coming back to haunt him.  Promises made that have been broken, remarks of being only a “one-term” president if the economy has not turned and improved, and statements that the deficit would be lowered.  The campaign would just as soon forget those ever happened, and instead uses a “do not look back” mantra, as well as the ever constant, “it was Bush’s fault.”   They even go so far as to misrepresent their fiscal irresponsibility, without ever taking any responsibility for their part in the unparalleled increase in the national debt.  The Obama campaign’s mission statement must be “Deflect, deflect, deflect, and then make counter accusations.”

             Equally disturbing is that while the Obama campaign desperately wants to move FORWARD, they are slamming Mitt Romney for his past.  Everything from 10 years of tax returns (which has never been asked of a candidate, including Obama), and spanning Romney’s entire professional career as a governor, successful business and philanthropist.  Americans are encouraged by Obama and his campaign to consider what Romney has done in the past, in various different capacities (none of which were President of the United States) to determine his abilities.  We are not, however, supposed to consider the effects of the policies put in place by Obama, who is the current president.  We are supposed to simply accept that “things in the Obama administration past, should remain in the past,”  dismiss the promises made,but not kept, and trust that Mr. Obama will keep his new promises because, in his own words, he’s “not done yet.”

            The poet and philosopher, George Santayana, may he rest in peace, is rolling in his grave, screaming, “Those who cannot remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.”  Nicely stated, Mr. Santayana.  The ideals of Santayana and Alder cannot be applied to only one side in political campaigns.  One campaign cannot insist voters review and consider one candidate’s past performance without also encouraging a review of their own past performance.  It has to be a two-way street for the political system to function fairly.

            The President may want to consider that absence of information, whether intentional or accidental, will lead voters to fill in the gaps with their own version of events.  Typically, people will remember the bad things that have happened.