Posted on 09/17/2009 1:38:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Obama is about to undertake a full-scale blitz of all the Sunday talk shows to try to convince the American people one more time of the merits of his health care plan.
This is after he has spoken on the subject publicly more than 100 times and after he just gave a nationwide speech before the Congress and the country.
I know this is his highest priority, but what else can he say to turn around the nearly half the country that doesn't want his health care plan? And if he told us honestly that the plan he and the Democrats are proposing could cost you more and cut services for those on Medicare, even more people would be opposed.
This is now an inside game. There are House versions and a Senate version of the reform bill. It's a question of how do you get them passed and get them to a conference committee to work out the differences.
The fight is no longer out in the country. The country is divided almost equally on this issue. And in spite of former President Jimmy Carter's absurd comments this week that much of the public opposition to President Obama is about racism, I can only say to the former president, "Please, Mr. President; think before you speak."
Obama's campaign and election last November in which he got the largest vote any Democrat received since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 was a milestone that made many Americans proud -- whether they were white or black or even voted for him.
Equally important, he defeated one of America's most courageous heroes, John McCain by nearly 9.5 million votes. Every day the American public gets to see this beautiful family in the White House, it appreciates them and relates to them as much
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Ed, you stupid twit...he's not appearing on all of the Sunday talk shows. He's afraid to appear on Fox News.
This is nuts. Only political/news junkies watch these shows. They are never going to change their views in one day. I don't think too many others are going to tune in intentionally to watch these since they have seen him too much already. It might get him a lot of good sound bytes, but then again, maybe he will screw up and make some mistakes. Not worth the trouble.
Merit: If you agree to an open-ended version of “my” health plan, you won’t be called a racist (for now).
Disagree, and stand to be skewered. “Racist” will be the least of the epithets hurled at you.
Puh-leeze
Ed is a stupid idiot and that crap made me want to puke all over him
Pres. Carter seems to have no grasp of the issues swirling around the Obama Administration. He certainly didn’t reference them.
Sooooo, as he called him self a son of the South, I am led to think that Carter is the racist, had played the race card because he has no rejoinder to the issues and is merely projecting his own prejudices.
Unemloyment is the biggest battle we face in America.
Why isn’t Obama doing something about it instead of this nonsensical reorganization of healthcare that isn’t imperative.
Getting people back to work is imperative.
Damage Control by Eddie.
Funny - So Obama is going to appeal to those who watch Sunday talk shows..of course with the exception of Fox. He’s moved away from talking at the mainstream American (who he obviously thought was dumb), to a more educated informed citizen who enjoys a good debate. The senior citizens who watch these programs! Good deal! I can only imagine the softballs the alleged unbiased panels will be throwing...pardon me, the fluffy Marshmallows they’ll be tossing at him.
Three situations to avoid:
Never get between a mother bear and her cubs.
Don’t walk across busy interstates.
Never get between Barack Obama and a TV camera.
That’s as bad as the fawning article that claimed the Obamas are a typical upper middle class family, aside from the Air Force One travel, vacationing at a multimillion-dollar estate, sending the kids to one of the most exclusive schools in the country, etc. Yeah.
Carter is a worthless POS who is way past his time to STFU.
Now let's change just one little word...
I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African European American.
Because of birth heritage and appearance one sways and the other is ho-hum. It's a con job, plain and simple, and too many Americans are the mark.
The peanut man is nuts!
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