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Obama to reintroduce himself during State of the Union
abcnews ^

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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To: savedbygrace

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.


141 posted on 01/25/2010 10:09:31 AM PST by Brookhaven
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To: Tzimisce

do you have a link? :o)


142 posted on 01/25/2010 10:09:48 AM PST by traumer
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To: traumer

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 ...


143 posted on 01/25/2010 10:14:06 AM PST by sunny48
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To: Eyes Unclouded
Well ... I expect Biden and Pelosi to expunge the disgrace to the democRat Party through the time-honoured custom of seppuku.
144 posted on 01/25/2010 10:16:26 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: traumer

Will Mr Transparency put it on C-Span?


145 posted on 01/25/2010 10:20:25 AM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: ArrogantBustard

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.


146 posted on 01/25/2010 10:21:36 AM PST by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: henkster

He is just like Herpies..............He just keeps coming back....
We need some ointment for this sore on the country.


147 posted on 01/25/2010 10:22:25 AM PST by Old Texan ((Leave me the HECK alone and let me live my life. I hate Commie's))
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To: Old Texan

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!


148 posted on 01/25/2010 10:32:55 AM PST by liberateUS
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To: traumer

...”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....


149 posted on 01/25/2010 10:34:51 AM PST by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: traumer
Allow myself to introduce...myself!


150 posted on 01/25/2010 10:39:16 AM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: traumer

“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.


151 posted on 01/25/2010 10:39:19 AM PST by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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To: traumer

As Barry Soetoro?


152 posted on 01/25/2010 10:45:09 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: manonCANAL

“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?


153 posted on 01/25/2010 10:46:35 AM PST by y6162
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To: ArrogantBustard

He should check with Krissy Matthews — see if his reintroduction will bring a tingle up his leg after the reintroduction.


154 posted on 01/25/2010 10:49:36 AM PST by Mr. Wright
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To: Hoodat

BINGO!


155 posted on 01/25/2010 10:52:34 AM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: traumer

After you $hit in your hat, it’s kind of hard to be “re-introduced”........


156 posted on 01/25/2010 10:56:16 AM PST by expatpat
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To: traumer
Is he going to tell GRANNY to eat dog food so he can do all this crap?

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.

157 posted on 01/25/2010 10:57:18 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: traumer

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.


158 posted on 01/25/2010 10:58:21 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: a fool in paradise

OBAMA 2010 - Now with More Marxism.


159 posted on 01/25/2010 10:59:10 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: traumer

160 posted on 01/25/2010 10:59:24 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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