Joe Klein ends his latest TIME column, titled “An Election of Lesser Evils,” with the following recommendation for the Obama re-election team:
It’s been a long time since middle-class Americans saw government act on their behalf. They suspect it does most of its business with the rich and poor. That isn’t true, of course. But those, like the President, who favor government action to solve our problems have to explain to people like Katie Bunkers, in the clearest possible terms, how ginormous, complicated pieces of legislation like economic stimulus and financial reform will benefit them.
One suspects that the Obama team member charged with finding good explanations of the benefits of stimulus and financial reform might need some help from the Mythbusters.
