Per Digby:
Basically, it boils down to this: "don't worry your pretty little heads about anything":
President Obama counseled supporters Wednesday evening "not to get too bogged down" in details when explaining his record to voters during the campaign.
The president, in a video conference with supporters Wednesday night from Chicago, encouraged his backers to focus on broad themes when it comes to his policies on taxes and war, instead of the specifics of individual policies. "I think the key is not to get too bogged down in detail," the president said last night.
The President also said it was perfectly ok for volunteers to just say "they don't know" the answer. Well I don't know about anybody else, but I sure as heck do not feel comfortable talking with potential voters and not having answers. It tends to make people look clueless.
And as usual....what Digby said:
That "don't look at the details" thing always rubbed me the wrong way, but I'm a jaded political junkie so I thought perhaps what looked like purposeful misdirection to me was a sort of inspiration I could no longer feel. But after all that's happened these past few years, I wouldn't want to be a volunteer who tries to sell this to voters. I have a feeling they're going to be a little less entranced by the "stories" and a little bit more hungry for real answers.
For more details on what to say about the wars, taxes, etc., please follow the link above.