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Obama: "somehow not breaking through"
Chicago Trib ^ | 9/20/09 | Mark Silva

Posted on 09/20/2009 8:58:27 AM PDT by pissant

President Barack Obama, acknowledging trouble in "breaking through'' to the American public with his proposal for a health-care overhaul, made an unprecedented public push today with a series of nationally broadcast television interviews.

After months of pressing Congress for an overhaul of the nation's health insurance, and making his case to a national audience in a televised address to a joint session of Congress, Obama today took his case to a network-sweeping round of Sunday talk show appearances.

In one interview aired this morning, ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked the president if he had confronted any situation yet in which he said to himself, ''Wow, I'm going to have to step up my game.''

"There have been times where I have said, 'I've got to step up my game in terms of talking to the American people about issues like health care,''' Obama said. "During this whole health care debate... there have been times where I've... not so much lost control, but where I've said to myself, 'Somehow I'm not breaking through...'

"This has been a sufficiently tough, complicated issue with so many moving parts that, you know, no matter how much I've... tried to keep it digestible, you know, it's very hard for people to get their... whole arms round it,'' Obama told Stephanopoulos. "And that's been a case where I have been humbled and I just keep on trying harder, because I -- I really think it's the right thing to do for the country.''

(Excerpt) Read more at swamppolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: larrysinclairslover; liarinchief; obama
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America does not like communists.
1 posted on 09/20/2009 8:58:27 AM PDT by pissant
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America does not like people who tell them, "Who ya gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"
2 posted on 09/20/2009 8:59:50 AM PDT by La Lydia
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American doesn’t like liars either.


3 posted on 09/20/2009 8:59:53 AM PDT by DejaJude
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Oh yes, he’s certainly been ‘humbled’ with his assessment that the American people are too stupid to ‘get their arms around’ his superior understanding on the subject.


4 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: pissant

Uh, because you are a lying Leninist scumb*g?


5 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:31 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: pissant

Mr President: You have gotten through and we do not TRUST you hence what you say does not matter. You cannot be trusted period.


6 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:35 AM PDT by vicar7
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Yeah...he’s “breaking through” all right....Many Americans are FINALLY starting to see that he wants to BREAK this country by making it a commie one.


7 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender)
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OBama...Your FIRST job is to keep us safe...and you’re getting farther and farther away from doing that.


8 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Was Stephanopoulos given the question so barry could read from his teleprompter


9 posted on 09/20/2009 9:00:59 AM PDT by sunny48
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You broke through Obozo, people don’t like communist Obozocare.


10 posted on 09/20/2009 9:01:04 AM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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Somehow, socialism isn’t breaking through. Our Dear Leader needs another “crisis” so he can force us to accept his generous proposal to manage our lives for us.


11 posted on 09/20/2009 9:02:01 AM PDT by TurtleUp (I believe that America is good and that human life is good, so I'm a conservative.)
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Zero needs to say on the tube 24/7 to get his health care message out.


12 posted on 09/20/2009 9:02:04 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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Barry shouldn’t sell himself short. I think he’s “breaking through”, just fine. Every time he talks, it’s breaking through that everything that comes out of him pie-hole is deceit, trickery, obfuscation and just plain lies. Keep talking Barry, you’re the one man who can save the Republican party.


13 posted on 09/20/2009 9:02:27 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: indylindy

Someone needs to tell BO: “Everything is fine with the marketing; the dogs just don’t like the dog food.”


14 posted on 09/20/2009 9:02:42 AM PDT by mwl8787
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President Barack Obama, acknowledging trouble in "breaking through'' to the American public with his proposal for a health-care overhaul

The foolish idiot doesn't grasp the fact that his problems are largely due to his success in "breaking through" to the American public, and not because of any 'trouble' in doing so...

15 posted on 09/20/2009 9:03:06 AM PDT by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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I'm not sure if he has a teleprompter.

I saw two little spots in his right ear that "glittered" when the light hit it right.

16 posted on 09/20/2009 9:04:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I can just picture what he’d look like the following morning: like Jerry Lewis on day two of the telethon. Like a raucous embarrassing all-nighter in Vega.


17 posted on 09/20/2009 9:04:34 AM PDT by Per-Ling
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“it’s very hard for people to get their... whole arms round it,”

There he goes again.
This sums up his entire problem - he cannot stop himself from insulting the intelligence of Americans and insinuating they simply cannot appreciate his superiority.


18 posted on 09/20/2009 9:04:47 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: indylindy

Right the more he is exposed the less we like it.


19 posted on 09/20/2009 9:05:03 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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Keep Talkin 0. Keep talkin’.

Opposition to Health Care Plan Hits New High of 56%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform


20 posted on 09/20/2009 9:05:19 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The 0 regime: harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.)
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