Posted on 09/08/2009 11:00:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama's test: Quiet right, win left By: Carrie Budoff Brown September 8, 2009 04:28 AM EST
After a summer of setbacks, President Barack Obama has a clear roadmap for salvaging health care reform:
Convince skeptical Americans that a new system would actually help them, not limit their choices and care. Strike a compromise between liberals who demand a public option and cost-conscious centrists who call it a deal-breaker. Win over Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), an inscrutable moderate. And avoid Death Panels II, a rerun of the potent Republican attacks.
But what’s got to make the White House nervous this week: That’s the same basic roadmap they started out with in February, and it failed to get Obama where he had hoped to be by Labor Day — much closer to a final compromise.
So the White House is sending Obama out to do what they believe he does best — talk to the nation, in a grand setting of a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, where he’ll address a public anxious about overreach, a Democratic Party divided and a Republican Party feeling like they have the upper hand.
Over the Labor Day weekend, the public saw the outlines of a solution for Obama. He previewed his speech with a Democratic call to arms and a challenge to Republicans during a union picnic Monday in Ohio, while Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released a plan that could form the blueprint for a bipartisan deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
More like - listen right, tell left to shut it.
Politico is run by Obama/Soros operatives. A communist front for Obama propaganda! Sickening!
I’m sure his 112’th speech on Health-Care will succeed where as the past 111’th have failed....
If he goes as far left as he’ll need to in order to win that wing of his party then he won’t have to worry about the Right. It’ll be the Center that rebels.
Sorry Bambi, you can blather on all you want to but it's too late ... we're on to you.
Lie, alege racism, attack opponents of his agenda, alege more racism, and have SEIU beat up dissidents.
Liar.
His left flank is made up of true believers who will brook no compromise. They earnestly feel that they MADE Barack, they got Barack ELECTED, and that they OWN his arse. I suspect that he will not be able to get them on board any “compromise”.
I know the Politico is solely interested in propping up their rapidly-sinking hero but Obama hasn't had a 'clear roadmap' on ANY subject yet. Even the administration isn't using the 'health care reform' canard any more but apparently the Politico didn't get the memo.
I absolutely agree about Politico, they are as bad or worse than Kos or DU....I rarely read these wankers!
Yep, like with Kos and DU, to even go to Politico you better be wearing a hazmat suit.
I don’t understand why anyone would watch or listen to this. Obama has already demonstrated himself to be the biggest liar ever to hold the presidency in my lifetime, and he’s only 7 months in. He says one thing, particular during the campaign, and does something entirely different. His words have no credibility whatsoever.
“And [Obama] was clearly testing those themes in his Labor Day speech in Cincinnati on Monday, where he said to critics of his plans for reform, “I’ve got a question for them. What’s your solution?” “The truth is, they don’t have one.”
Read the Whole Foods Plan, you dolt.
next!
“Obama has already demonstrated himself to be the biggest liar ever to hold the presidency in my lifetime”
A liar AND arrogant beyond belief:
“I’m LeBron, baby,” he told journalist David Mendell just before he delivered a boffo speech to the 2004 Democratic convention that catapulted him to fame.”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/08/can-obama-overcome-three-big-challenges-wednesday-night/
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