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.''
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Americans don’t like people who want to steal their children’s money.
Pray for America
How condescending. If you disagree you are too dumb to understand. I think Obama has boken through and we have our whole arms around it. Could it be that we don’t like what he wants?
Of course he’s not “breaking through”....everyone with a brain knows he’s not competent to chew what he’s bitten off.
healthcare plan is unconstitutional
Au contraire, Mr. Obama, what you say is getting through, it’s just that most Americans don’t put much stock in what a pathologic commie liar says.
It’s not that he’s not breaking through. It’s that he is breaking through, and the people do not want it.
Its not a problem breaking though, it’s a problem with the message...we’re not willing to give you, the government, power over our own life and death decisions, power over our eating choices, power over our daily lives, and power over our freedom to live our lives according to OUR decisions, and not according to how the socialist collective dictates (see “soda tax...”)
No one should want to ‘wrap their arms around an undigestible’ turd. I am getting ‘all wee-weed up’ watching Barry ‘act stupidly’, with no one ‘calling him out’. Did I hit all the talking points?
The more Obama talks, the more Americans reject his policies.
Not everyone has a cult follower mentality
Have ACORN get into our face some more. I don’t think he has been using them effectively.
Oh, I wouldn't say that.
Cheers!
National socialism is not good for the country. It wasn’t good for Germany in the 1930’s and is no better now.
Maybe if Zero were on every channel 24/7 he’d “break through”. I think we just need all 0bama all the time. I think this has actually been tried before, not sure.
Most of America now accurately views Obama as Joe Isuzu’s brother.
You forgot to mention “gravitas” and the “right wing echo chamber”.
That “right wing echo chamber” phrase, especially, has spread like wildfire among the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms lately.
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