Let's Vote On This Thing Already (Before The People Know What's Going On)
Obama makes his big speech to Congress tonight. I'm not sure if I get the point. How many speeches has he made on health care already? 20? 40? Is this the time he finally tells us how he truly feels?
Anyway, despite all the troubles they've had, I still feel the Democrats will not only pass a bill, but get, in essence, everything they want, including the public option. (It may be sold as a compromise, but it'll be a public option.) I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but it just seems they've got such a large lead in Congress, how can they lose?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:05 AM
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I heard today that President Obama has averaged more than one speach (more than a couple comments in passing) per day since taking office. He's over 230 speaches so far.
Do you think there is such a thing as too much exposure? I know George Bush was attacked for not speaking enough to the press, and apparently taking too many vacations. But I wonder when President Obama has time to do anything other than revise speaches (assuming he doesn't write them), practice speaches and give speaches. Maybe we have reached the point where the President really is primarily a figurehead - a talking head giving voice to the work done behind the scenes by their party.
its only too much if it doesn't work.
Giving speeches targeted to getting specific tasks accomplished and initiatives moving is hardly figurehead work. The Queen does not advance any sort of agenda with her appearances. As technology and communication change, what constitutes work changes along with it.
If he did this in January and preempted Lost, I'd never forgive him.
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