Riffing off the previous post, if you're trying to build consumer loyalty for your product, it really helps if you (1) offer consumers something they really want, or which will materially improve the quality of their lives, and (2) follow through on that promise with a product that delivers. The alternative is, well, Pets.com:
Union officials also expressed outrage over the leaked info or distress over the state of the negotiations. Joseph Nigro, the president of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air Rail and Transportation Workers, said over email that the leak showed that “this Administration would seek to extend the worst parts” of “horrible trade agreements like NAFTA.” Nigro said the leaks offered an example of why his union “will only support and work for those candidates and parties that serve to support working people.” Without mentioning Obama by name, Nigro urged “supporters of this measure” to “cut out the caviar, celebrity photo ops and cocktail parties and spend a day in the shoes of the average working person and seeing the damage it will cause.”“This is what happens when you get an administration that is pretty much in the lap of corporate America,” said Chris Townsend, the political action director for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and a longtime Obama critic. “That’s who they perform for, and that’s who most of them will go to work for after they lose the election in November.”
And none of this corporate accommodationism will stop the nonstop whackjob propaganda campaign against the Most Anti-Business President Ever® and his Democrat Marxist party. Nor will it put a stop to the Sunday talk shows devoting an hour to this week's topic du jour: "Is President Obama really the most anti-business President ever? This week, we explore both sides of the issue with leading members of Congress" in the name of objectivity and balance. Perhaps the President and the party would consider being their opponents' worst nightmare sometime instead of trying to co-opt their agenda in a kinder, gentler package. It worked for this guy*, and it just might work again. But if you're going to keep giving your most ardent supporters more reasons not to re-elect you, you should shouldn't be surprised if, well, they just don't.
---Vitelius* Who, we might add, ran on a platform that included national health insurance. And won.
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