Posted on 09/20/2009 7:29:41 PM PDT by Libloather
Obama makes Sunday talk show blitz
By Mark Silva
WASHINGTON BUREAU - After months of pressing the American public and Congress to support sweeping changes to health care and health insurance, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered a humbling admission: His message is sometimes not "breaking through."
"I think 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 an unprecedented spree of Sunday morning television news show appearances.
Asked by an interviewer if he had lost control of the health debate at those times, the president said: "Well, not so much lost control, but where I've said to myself, somehow I'm not breaking through."
The president's saturation of the Sunday shows – a five-network set of broadcast and cable appearances--marked yet another effort to explain to a divided public why he is pushing for legislation to remake the health system. Taped on Friday at the White House, the TV appearances followed a prime-time address to a joint session of Congress earlier this month and a series of town hall-style appearances and rallies across the country aimed at reviving the fervor for "change" that propelled Obama's presidential campaign.
In giving the president such prominent exposure, the White House is showing its confidence that Obama himself is the best salesman for his policies. The president not only swept through the major Sunday news shows, skipping only the Fox network, but he also plans an appearance on David Letterman's Late Show on Monday night, a first for a sitting president.
Critics of the president suggested that doubters in the public have heard the president's message; they just aren't buying it.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Is that axing too much?
Yeah...for guns and ammo.....
Will Letterman be wearing his “always-a-bridesmaid-never-a-bride” dress for his man-crush? If I had a cast-iron stomach, I’d watch just to enjoy the unrequited love in Letterman’s eyes and the look of desire on his ugly face to spoon.
Obummer needs to learn how to be Presidential and not a 24-7 campaigner like Billy Mayes (RIP) selling junk on tv.
We need a leader not a community organizer who is wearing out his welcome with the American public.
I wish Id bought Smith and Wesson stock last November
Does anyone think that Bobo the magnificent is trying to get enough face time for America, as a whole to believe what he says is undisputable?
I believe Vladimir Lenin said, “A lie told often enough becomes truth”. Or Joseph Goebbels who said, “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it....”
it’s ok by me if obammer ditches talk shows , public appearances, etc.... just go play golf or something.
With all due respect, Zero...perhaps you’re not “breaking through” because any sensible person who can bear to listen to you knows you lie about pretty much everything.
Look, you’re a communist pig who wants to get into bed with every thug, dictator and narco-terrorist in the world while selling out our allies Great Britain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Australia, Israel, etc...etc...etc...That’s who you are, but you and your pals in the MSM were successful at hiding the ball during the election.
Be true to yourself, Zero and stand or fall on the merits of your argument. That’s what kills your support. You tried to run as a moderate (and those who weren’t paying attention bought it) but you’re certainly governing as a radical Marxist!
Wow... Letterman but not Fox. Am I down the bizarro-world rabbit hole or what.
When the wanna-be dictator knows more about some thug-musician and other entertainment figures than he knows about the economy, or military, or anything serious, we know we’re in even more trouble....
Wouldn’t you love to know what the ratings for his appearances on all these shows was vs. their regular ratings? It’d be hysterically funny if his appearances made these shows LOSE their shares from previous ratings LOL.
I think BO is “breaking through” loud and clear and being completely rejected by the Americans.
If it’s really about persuading people, he would have went on Fox. The people that watch Fox need persuading not the lemmings that watch ABCNBCCBSMSNBC.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Give a speech every hour, every single day. That'll change a lot of minds. Heh.
We hear ya loud and clear, pres. Bobble Head. And we have answered you.
You choose to not listen and insult us on top of it.
Keep up the non stop appearances, it's driving your numbers lower and lower -
Obama was on TV today??....missed him...drat/sarc
When 0bama talks about his health care plan, he really isn’t breaking through. He’s breaking wind because his socialist plan stinks, plain and simple. :)
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