Obama to reintroduce himself during State of the Union

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[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.

[tgusa]

Hopefully I can find something more interesting to do, like wash the dog. Or clean my gun(s).

[albie]

Maybe he’ll do some pantomime except in a real glass box!

[supremedoctrine]

Oh, this should be good.He’s reintroducing himself!
“Hi, remember me, Barack Obama, the President?
I’m the nightmare DATE FROM HELL who’s been driving you
around for one solid year, unable to find the right movie theatre playing the movie I wanted us to see together.
But we’ll get there! Be patient.
I just have to make a pit stop at DMV to renew my registration.”

[truthandlife]

BHO, you don’t need to reintroduce yourself. Not a lot of people knew who you really were when you ran and now many are catching on that you are a Marxist who will never change your colors.

[AUJenn]

I cannot handle listening to his phony preacher-man voice for more than 5 or so seconds; it is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. I will most certainly not be watching because I don’t care to spend my evening being lied to, talked down to, and lectured in his condescending tone. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Pres Obama had a State of the Union address - and nobody watched? That would really get his ego going.

[Madame Dufarge]

Oh boy!

Another "new Nixon!"

[himno hero]

for it is my “Christian faith”

[GonzoGOP]

For the State of the Union, he needs to redefine himself, who he is politically and what his core principles and policies are

Too Late Bozo. The 43% who strongly disapprove of you are not going to have their opinions changed by a speech. Also what people want to hear is that you are throwing Rahm, Pelosi, and the rest of your socialist advisor's off the gravy train and under the bus.

But if all Obama are offering is another teleprompter concerto it won't be enough to save the liberals in November. The Dems no longer can achieve victory, they can only manage the scope of their defeat. And Obama's narcissism and over inflated ego won't let him see this.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hopefully Joe Wilson has prepared his speech as well.

[Frantzie]

LOL! It would be funny if the country wasn’t going down in flames. ABC is owned by Disney. All the lib netwrosk are killing America.

Maybe he needs Naomi Wolf to make him an alpha male or Ellie Light to write more letters.

[HerrBlucher]

Now this I gotta see......well, at least read about here on FR. Obama is such a megadork, there is no way the new model is going to fly.

[henkster]

“President Obama will have a chance Wednesday to reintroduce himself to the nation...”

No thanks; we’ve already met.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“He can simply revert to being proud of his mentor and benefactor.” “He” being our telegenic stand-in-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama.

[himno hero]

Louis Cypher?

[LibLieSlayer]

obama version 2.0... as good as Windows ME!

LLS

[verity]

Priceless.. lol

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“ABC is owned by Disney.” That statement, along, says so much. However, by the time I was 3 or 4 years old, I knew the difference between “make-believe” and life. It appears some of us managed to live without learning that.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Reintroduce????

“Hi. I’m Barack Obama...uhhhh...and I’m here to destroy your country.”

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“ABC is owned by Disney.” That statement, alone, says so much. However, by the time I was 3 or 4 years old, I knew the difference between “make-believe” and life. It appears some of us managed to live without learning that.

[Carling]

Barry OBumbler wants a do over. It's hard to convince people that they need things they do not want.