Posted on 01/25/2010 8:29:23 AM PST by traumer
Populist or professor? Contrite or uncompromising?
President Obama will have a chance Wednesday to reintroduce himself to the nation when he delivers his first official State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.
The prime-time speech, which will be aired on all major TV networks and cable stations, could hardly come at a more critical time for a president grappling with double-digit unemployment, sinking poll numbers and the possible collapse of his top domestic policy priority, an overhaul of the nation's health-care system.
"As often as the president has spoken over the past year, critics on the right and left have largely defined him," says University of Notre Dame American studies professor Robert Schmuhl. "For the State of the Union, he needs to redefine himself, who he is politically and what his core principles and policies are."
In Ohio on Friday, just three days after Democrats lost the 60th Senate vote that gave them an edge in pushing their agenda through Congress, Obama struck a decidedly populist tone.
Shunning a necktie for a midday town hall-style meeting in Elyria, Obama told the crowd again and again that he'll "never stop fighting" for them on issues from health care and jobs to education and accountability.
On Wednesday, however, the setting will be decidedly different: formal and steeped in history and tradition.
When he speaks to the nation from the House of Representatives' chamber, he will take "the biggest stage the president has" to speak to the people, says Michael Gerson, White House speechwriter for George W. Bush.
How he responds to last week's message from Massachusetts voters, who gave Republican Scott Brown the seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy for nearly five decades, could set the political course for the next year and beyond.
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Trust is like a china plate. If you break it, no matter well you glue it back together, you will always be able to see the crack.
Obama “broke the plate”. No matter how much he tries to change his image, the crack will be there.
do you have a link? :o)
Reintroduce himself! More like another speach about himself.
I I I I I let me be clear I I I I perfectly clear I I I ...
Will Mr Transparency put it on C-Span?
HAHAHA I can see it now. Styrofoam temple on the mall. Fake tea ceremony something about “honor you can believe in”. Sarah Palin and Scott Brown as the seconds.
He is just like Herpies..............He just keeps coming back....
We need some ointment for this sore on the country.
Forget about reintroducing yourself, Mr. Pres—ent. How about just introduce us to your birth certificate, and all of the other missing documents that would tell us who you really are!
...”President Obama will have a chance Wednesday to reintroduce himself to the nation when he delivers his first official State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.”...
Is this writer serious? Barack Obama will “reintroduce” himself to the nation? I am astounded....
“For the State of the Union, he needs to redefine himself, who he is politically and what his core principles and policies are.”
Another delusional academic pencil-neck heard from. Barack Obama cannot define his “core principles” becaseu he has none.
As Barry Soetoro?
“Obama you suck, or maybe Larry Sinclair sucked. Can’t remember which.”
I wonder what the Kenyan’s mentor Uncle Frank, the communist pedophile, taught him?
He should check with Krissy Matthews — see if his reintroduction will bring a tingle up his leg after the reintroduction.
BINGO!
After you $hit in your hat, it’s kind of hard to be “re-introduced”........
OBAMA'S WAR ON SENIORS which includes the retired Military 65 and over, who get double whammied with obamadeathcare.
Links to various articles are in the threads. Then leave the debt to our great grands to pay. I thought SS was the third rail of politics and the GOP was going to cut and gut it so Granny had to eat dog food...WELL it's the DEMONRATS that are doing the cut and gutting of SS and Medicare/Tricare for Life the retired Militarys secondary health ins, so I guess they want Granny to eat dog food. BTW a lot of those 10,000 laid off Sam's Club workers will be old people on SS supplementing their incomes.
OBAMA 2008 - Empty Suit, but the Press turned a blind Eye.
OBAMA 2009 - Empty Suit, but surrounded by liberal zealots, and press turned mostly a blind eye.
OBAMA 2010 - EMPTY SUIT, Handlers Try to put lipstick on the pig and hope the american people will turn a blind eye.
OBAMA 2010 - Now with More Marxism.
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