The President said he was humbled by the mid-term elections. His opponents accuse him of not listening to "the American people." But maybe he did listen to them. He hasn't done everything he promised he would do in his campaign (Rome wasn't built in two years, after all), but has he advocated anything that was not part of his campaign? Was not health insurance for all Americans the center piece of that campaign? He even said that health care was the key to solving the deficit. Surely people heard all that. They must have wanted it or they wouldn't not have voted for him in such a decisive way. Now "they" say they don't want it and that the President needs to listen to them. Could it be that the American electorate doesn't know what it wants? Or if it knows what it wants, it doesn't know how to get there, or is unwilling to pay the cost?
Instead of saying he was humbled, the President might more honestly have said, "I'm confused."
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