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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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To: pissant

Americans don’t like people who want to steal their children’s money.

Pray for America


21 posted on 09/20/2009 9:05:28 AM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: pissant

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?


22 posted on 09/20/2009 9:05:46 AM PDT by motherof 3
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To: pissant

LIAR


23 posted on 09/20/2009 9:06:16 AM PDT by BAW (Obama lies and lies and lies . . .)
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To: pissant

Of course he’s not “breaking through”....everyone with a brain knows he’s not competent to chew what he’s bitten off.


24 posted on 09/20/2009 9:07:28 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: pissant

healthcare plan is unconstitutional


25 posted on 09/20/2009 9:07:43 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: pissant

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.


26 posted on 09/20/2009 9:08:08 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pissant

It’s not that he’s not breaking through. It’s that he is breaking through, and the people do not want it.


27 posted on 09/20/2009 9:08:49 AM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: pissant
Mr. President, I know you'll have trouble understanding this, but I'll try anyway, you ran as a centrist and are governing like Che. You've broken through loud and clear, salesmanship isn't the issue, the dogs just don't like the food.
28 posted on 09/20/2009 9:08:50 AM PDT by jpf (Obama's been President for like 15 minutes and I'm a better person already.)
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To: pissant

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...”)


29 posted on 09/20/2009 9:09:18 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: pissant

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?


30 posted on 09/20/2009 9:10:38 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: pissant

The more Obama talks, the more Americans reject his policies.


31 posted on 09/20/2009 9:10:47 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: pissant

Not everyone has a cult follower mentality


32 posted on 09/20/2009 9:10:47 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: pissant

Have ACORN get into our face some more. I don’t think he has been using them effectively.


33 posted on 09/20/2009 9:11:29 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: pissant
Obama: "somehow not breaking through"

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

Cheers!

34 posted on 09/20/2009 9:11:39 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: pissant

National socialism is not good for the country. It wasn’t good for Germany in the 1930’s and is no better now.


35 posted on 09/20/2009 9:12:34 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: pissant

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.


36 posted on 09/20/2009 9:13:11 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: pissant
"...because I -- I really think it's the right thing to do for the country if we are ever going to turn America into a Euro-style socialist welfare state with the Democrat party as its permanent ruling party.''
37 posted on 09/20/2009 9:13:17 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: pissant

Most of America now accurately views Obama as Joe Isuzu’s brother.


38 posted on 09/20/2009 9:14:07 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pissant
Wow, I'm going to have to step up my game.
You can't step up your game from 8U Little League Baseball to the Majors and as Obama has proved you can't step up your game from community organizer to POTUS. Captain Zero is still a zero.
39 posted on 09/20/2009 9:14:48 AM PDT by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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To: SERKIT

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.


40 posted on 09/20/2009 9:16:29 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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