Time For Obama To Pitch His Health Care Plan Kanye West-Style

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 9:53 am, September 14th, 2009

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obama-address President Obama just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to holding the nation’s attention with details of his health care plan. Perhaps the President should embrace a ‘if you can’t beat’em, join’em’ mentality and stage his own outburst. It may be a good last resort before all is lost. Consider this.

Last Wednesday Obama made the unusual move of calling a joint session of Congress, once again occupying the airwaves (sans FOX), to once again pitch his health care plan and hopefully clear up some misconceptions about what it does and does not consist of. It was by most people’s measure a fantastic speech…and yet it was mostly lost amidst all the ongoing hubub over Joe Wilson‘s “You Lie” outburst. image5302808x

On Saturday, Obama sought to follow up Wednesday’s address with a health care plan rally in Minneapolis. Saturday was also known to some 70,000 rambunctious sign-wavers as 9/12, and it was that outburst of sign wavers, marching around Washington, who dominated both the cablers and the next-day coverage.

kanyetaylor Being nothing if not persistent, Obama appeared this Sunday 60 Minutes for a second time in six months (video below) to talk to Steve Kroft about…the health care plan. 60 Minutes airs at 7pm ET, which last night put it somewhere between Serena Williams’ outburst at Saturday’s U.S. Open and Kanye West‘s Taylor Swift-directed outburst at the VMA’s. The President really just needs everyone — everyone — to shut the hell up for seven days so he can get his point across!

There is a chance Obama will have another shot at the headline ring. Rumors abound he is set to appear on tonight’s debut of The Jay Leno Show…with special guest Kanye West. Perhaps the Prez can get a few outburst notes from the master. Outbursts have appeared to paid off for everyone else.

President Obama Talks Health Care on 60 Minutes

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Magister

Eh… If Obama appears, it’ll just be to order someone to shave Leno’s head.
JimW

It’s clear that taxes for everyone will go up, the Obamacare bill will fail, the Democratic Party is going to lose a ton of seats next year, ACORN will prove to be a HUGE albatross for the Justice Department, and Glynnis will continue whistling her aria to the deaf. All this is going to happen because Obama does nothing except get his point across. Maybe he should shut-up.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Farrar/1409154527 Fred Farrar

If he hasn’t gotten his point across yet (and what IS the point, by the way?) he has little chance.

Is he for a single payer plan?

What will his proposal REALLY COST? (I know, I know, we can cut billions in government waste — so how about starting with vetoing every single earmark which crosses his desk?)

It is so sad that Mediaite has quickly become such an ardent defender of all things left: MSNBC, the President, whatever, and savagely slashes at all it sees as anti-left: Fox News, the GOP, conservatives even moderates who don’t drink the KoolAid.

Ms. MacNicol’s views are pedantic and almost laughably predictable.

“The President really just needs everyone — everyone — to shut the hell up for seven days so he can get his point across!”

Really? Didn’t he get network time (again!) on three nets — and a dozen cable networks — just a few days ago to clarify things? Maybe he should have started there. Spoken specifically, simply, and outlined exactly what should be in his plan — well not really HIS plan, since Congress is writing the various proposals.

But Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich do it so much better than Ms. MacNicol. And they each have some new views on occasion, too.

I now await the next edition of Mediaite finding someone at Fox News to bash. It shouldn’t be a long wait.
m

Wow. As soon as there’s a post on Mediaite that’s not ardently right-wing or pro-Republican, the whining starts.
ImNotBlue

I have yet to see one of those “ardently right-wing” or “pro-Republican” posts. Perhaps you could show me one or two.

Until then, you can go back to whining about the ONE non-left-wing television network… I’ll just sit back and soak in the irony.