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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 25, 2009, 04:12:45 PM
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Well, duh!!! But, it's Teh Rove who wrote this, so I had to bring it here.
The President Risks Getting Stale
OPINION SEPTEMBER 24, 2009, 9:56 A.M. ET
Continuous TV appearances can't rescue a bad argument.
By KARL ROVE
It sounded to White House advisers like a good idea. Put President Barack Obama on five Sunday morning talk shows. This would focus attention on health care, re-establish momentum, and show off Mr. Obama's passion, intelligence, and persuasive abilities. It didn't work.
Mr. Obama made a classic mistake of politicians on a downward-bending arc. He jumps out in front of the cameras without having something fresh to offer.
As a result, he was on the defensive and failed to win over the slice of America that opposes his plans. His refusal to sit down with Fox News's Chris Wallace made him look petulant if not fearful, and his answers weakened his credibility.
Take, for example, his dustup on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" over whether requiring Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine was a tax. Legislation in the House and Senate defines it as a tax, and Mr. Stephanopoulos said it fit Merriam-Webster's definition of a tax. But the president insisted it was not a tax. That's because by favoring the mandate Mr. Obama is breaking his pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He already signed a cigarette tax increase in February, but this tax could be as much as $3,800 a year for a family and is therefore a more material breach of his promise.
On "Face the Nation" Mr. Obama said he would pay for two-thirds of his health-care proposal by redirecting Medicare funds that are "just being spent badly." "This is not me making wild assertions," Mr. Obama said, "waste and abuse" can provide "the lion's share of money to pay for" health-care reform.
The rest of the column is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574430883099005144.html
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He's giving a press conference now, at the G-20.
Actually, a question gets asked about once every 10 minutes....and he then rambles.
He is replacing Beck here.... :censored:
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One wonders why he chose Sunday morning for all the tv coverage. Shouldnt' he have been somewhere else on Sunday morning? :fuelfire:
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One wonders why he chose Sunday morning for all the tv coverage. Shouldnt' he have been somewhere else on Sunday morning? :fuelfire:
It's been a while since I heard it.....but there was a comment made on some show, that for all the time he supposedly spent in Wright's church....they don't go to church in DC.
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It must be true, CNN had a story on their website yesterday claiming the overexposure wasn't hurting him...which means the widespread comment on idea has reached the press flacks and pollsters who are paid by the Administration and the DNC to counterattack any bad news, and there really is a problem for him.
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One wonders why he chose Sunday morning for all the tv coverage. Shouldnt' he have been somewhere else on Sunday morning? :fuelfire:
Muslims don't celebrate their holy days on Sundays........
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It must be true, CNN had a story on their website yesterday claiming the overexposure wasn't hurting him...which means the widespread comment on idea has reached the press flacks and pollsters who are paid by the Administration and the DNC to counterattack any bad news, and there really is a problem for him.
Great point, but what is he to do? Campaigning is his only mode.
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Great point, but what is he to do? Campaigning is his only mode.
There is the "off" mode, too. He should use it.