http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/where-obama-went-wrong-in-the-gun-control-fight
Culprits for the bill's demise are plenty — from gutless Senate moderates, to inflexible pro-gun conservatives, to a brazen gun lobby that waged an aggressive, and sometimes misleading, campaign to defeat the legislation.
But in the immediate aftermath of the defeat, critics have begun to second-guess Obama's strategy and question whether he was fully prepared for what promised from the beginning to be a bruising battle with gun rights supporters.White House allies defended the president's efforts, and said his commitment to the issue was on full display throughout the process, noting that Obama, as well as Joe Biden, spent significant time directly engaging lawmakers and working the phones hard to try to jam through a last-minute bipartisan amendment to expand background checks for gun buyers."The White House worked hand in glove with all of the progressive gun and violence groups. They had conversations about strategy. And the president was out front on this. He's really made a campaign out of promoting the position in a passionate way out in the public," said Bob Creamer, president of Strategic Consulting Group, and a strategist who worked closely between progressive groups and the White House on guns."I don't think there could have been any more engagement or commitment by the White House than they had on this issue," Creamer said.
could it be there are too many sources of news competing to get the ratings that we the public get cheated?
But others said the White House's campaign was encumbered by allowing urgency to fade; pursuing too many issues at once; overreaching in the early stages of the gun debate; and fundamentally failing to mobilize Obama's legendary grassroots to pressure lawmakers.
Waiting too long
Obama acted fast after Newtown, declaring his intentions to seek new gun control regulations just days after the shooting. But then he created a commission to craft new proposals — the vast majority of which were old proposals favored by gun control advocates for decades, including the weapons ban Obama had sought since his first run for the presidency — which slowed things down.
these are very good points given the fickleness of "we the people", we do have a problem prossessing information especially when have are meant to mislead FOX knows that, they have been about changing your preception of the political field for decades.
GW Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on", it works look at the other half of the country and what they say and where they want to take you.
this has become in the aftermath of everything a if i coulda, woulda, shoulda monday morning armchair quarterbacking, media assault on the public as we know we all don't absorb news well, as some create their own story gleaned from misinformation and misleading, and thus the hunt begins except no one knows it's a hunt to them it's a gotcha lookout.
