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Obama's healthcare messages are backfiring, strategists say
Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug 22, 2009 | Peter Nicholas

Posted on 08/21/2009 10:23:45 PM PDT by Innovative

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To: Grunthor

It’s an easy battle to fight when you have the truth on your side.

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That’s why they can’t present themselves honestly. They lose every time!


21 posted on 08/21/2009 10:44:46 PM PDT by unkus
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To: unkus

Follow the Soros money.


22 posted on 08/21/2009 10:47:27 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: Innovative

Marketing 101

“K.I.S.S.” (duh)

Want to lose an audience? Start talking technical - “bending the cost curve”, “public option”, “single-payer”, etc. Terms that nobody has a clue about.

And this guy is a successful politician??


23 posted on 08/21/2009 10:48:49 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That is about to change... even the MSM can’t keep up the charade for much longer... His antics, much less his policies that are causing universal protests can NOT be ignored much longer - even by the stupid MSM...


24 posted on 08/21/2009 10:50:58 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: REDWOOD99

Follow the Soros money.
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Exactly! Soros is a Demon.


25 posted on 08/21/2009 10:51:23 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Innovative
Maybe Obama should say that his health care plan was cooked up by the hard left as a scheme to bamboozle the people into ending up with 'single payer', that is total government takeover.

See, by telling the truth, there is no need to change the story.

26 posted on 08/21/2009 10:52:22 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Mark

Yep. They can’t handle it now.


27 posted on 08/21/2009 10:52:44 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Deagle

The State Run Media is cracking. They are becomming more critical by the day because the excuses are running out.


28 posted on 08/21/2009 10:55:04 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Innovative

The truth is simple. Lies are hard to explain.

Obamacare is a power grab that will put us in need of more ‘constituent services’ and make some people grateful to Washington for whatever we do get. He can’t say that. He has to explain around that. That’s why his arguments are backfiring.


29 posted on 08/21/2009 10:55:12 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Exactly right. This is all on a personal level and that wakes up people.


30 posted on 08/21/2009 10:58:22 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Innovative

It’s call spin.


31 posted on 08/21/2009 10:59:12 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: unkus

Yes...and isn’t it a fun thing to watch! Every once in a while we actually get some factual news from them and usually, it is pessimistic because they have no choice...heh.

Wow, I do long for the integrity of the 70’s media (and it was really biased!)...


32 posted on 08/21/2009 11:03:24 PM PDT by Deagle
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Yeah, now were have we heard that word " nuance " before ? ohh yeah, during the 2004 election with that loser John Kerry.

33 posted on 08/21/2009 11:07:04 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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34 posted on 08/21/2009 11:15:28 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . KILLAGRAM@WHITEHOUSE.GOV . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: Innovative
The strategists, many of whom saw healthcare reform fail in the Clinton administration,...

This is probably too simple for the strategists but; maybe the people don't want government health care reform? Health care reform yes, but not government health care reform.

35 posted on 08/21/2009 11:20:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Innovative

I’m not the least bit confused about the proposal. I don’t want it. I’ll take less health care for less government. I don’t want the government in my bank account. I don’t want the government’s little know-nothing ACORNs knocking at my front door to tell me how I should run my life. I don’t want to share ALL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION with every government official I have to deal with.

GET OUT OF MY LIFE. LEAVE ME ALONE. GO TO SOME FOREIGN COUNTRY & LIE ABOUT AMERICANS (with all the money your forefathers made here in the free market USA but which you being Harvard educated and all can now disrespect). TAKE YOUR INHERITANCE YOU MISERABLE ELISTS and leave me alone clutching my gun and Bible and Constituion and land and freedom. I DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ PAPERS.

Ahh. Felt good.


36 posted on 08/21/2009 11:37:33 PM PDT by Bhoy (The check is in the mail.)
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To: Innovative
Conservative opponents of the overhaul have an even simpler message:

Government run healthcare is Tyranny and Enslavement!!

37 posted on 08/21/2009 11:47:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Grunthor

“President Obama has advanced too many rationales for his plan, leaving people confused.”

His problem is that people are not confused. They know B.S. when they see it.


38 posted on 08/22/2009 12:16:35 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Innovative

39 posted on 08/22/2009 2:03:56 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Innovative

Granny was right; you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.


40 posted on 08/22/2009 4:20:22 AM PDT by smartymarty (When you know why you believe what you believe, leadership is inevitable.)
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