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Analysis: Obama speech a sharp test of leadership
AP/Google ^ | September 4, 2009 | Ben Feller

Posted on 09/04/2009 4:14:46 AM PDT by Loyalist

WASHINGTON — In one fell swoop, President Barack Obama must regain the public's attention on health care, explain in detail exactly what he wants in a final deal, unify a restless Democratic Party, prod Congress to get him a bill and bring clarity to a bewildering debate.

Vacation is over.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare
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Vacation is over?

Even his media mouthpieces must be wondering about his neverending vacations.

1 posted on 09/04/2009 4:14:46 AM PDT by Loyalist
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2 posted on 09/04/2009 4:20:57 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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There is no leadership; only lies and deception and a quest for total power.


3 posted on 09/04/2009 4:21:14 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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..as long as TOTUS is in top form


4 posted on 09/04/2009 4:21:46 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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“Vacation is over.”

Zero needs to take a PERMANENT vacation! His small mind is never off vacation.


5 posted on 09/04/2009 4:22:03 AM PDT by VRWCRick
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President Barack Obama must regain the public's attention on health care

No! Barack Obama must find a distractor so people do not focus on his hellthcare plan. When people PAY ATTENTION to his HELLthcare plan they want to throw him and ALL of congress out of office!

6 posted on 09/04/2009 4:23:00 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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One speech will not restore the trust of the American people. Millions of folks are yelling “We Don’t Trust You!!” Millions are saying the same to their Representatives that do not represent them. Trust is a very hard thing to restore and as the saying goes “Actions speak louder than words.” As a townhall participant said: You have awakened a “Sleeping Giant” and you better listen and respond.


7 posted on 09/04/2009 4:24:56 AM PDT by vicar7
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Obozo’s speeches are now like the “Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Soon everyone will stop listening.


8 posted on 09/04/2009 4:30:58 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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Another fawning editorial masquerading as news. AP becomes more vile each day. AP should publicly fly the swastika from its flagpole.


9 posted on 09/04/2009 4:33:50 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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The fact he has scheduled the speech means he has failed.

He may retreat and embrace aspects of the Republican proposal for reform but that is failure. His opportunity for lasting fame has slipped away while everyone was on vacation.


10 posted on 09/04/2009 4:34:01 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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There was a guy in Germany who gave a great speech and took a lot of vacations. He preferred the mountains, however.


11 posted on 09/04/2009 4:36:19 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Analysis: Obama speech a sharp test of leadership

The guy has been in office for 8 months.
He has yet to show even the slightest bit of leadership.
Why? Because he has none.


12 posted on 09/04/2009 4:41:57 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Proud to have made Communist Leader Obama's hit list at flag@whitehouse.gov)
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13 posted on 09/04/2009 4:42:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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Vacation is over.

Geez, he "returned" from vacation Sunday the 30th, and has already left for a little more vacation on Wednesday the 2nd. When IS the vacation over?

14 posted on 09/04/2009 4:45:23 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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In one fell swoop, President Barack Obama must regain the public's attention on health care, explain in detail exactly what he wants in a final deal, unify a restless Democratic Party, prod Congress to get him a bill and bring clarity to a bewildering debate.

And he is not the man who has the ability to do it. Agree or disagree with his positions, he could have shown leadership and focus and accomplished what he wanted to do. Instead he left it up to Pelosi and the committee chairs, most of which hate her and each other, and allowed his opposition to provide the message. He's failed, and in the end they will pass a bill that will do nothing but make things worse just so they can say they passed something.

15 posted on 09/04/2009 4:47:17 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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There was a guy in Germany who gave a great speech and took a lot of vacations. He preferred the mountains, however.

Not to worry, he has it covered!

The president is heading out to the presidential retreat at Camp David on Wednesday morning. The five-day stay in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains gives the first family a head start on the Labor Day weekend.

16 posted on 09/04/2009 4:47:52 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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The myth about Obama being a brilliant orator is being exposed. The guy doesn’t inspire.


17 posted on 09/04/2009 4:48:50 AM PDT by Always Right
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Regain the public’s attention on healthcare?

Are they kidding? Have they bee kidnapped and held on a island in the artic with no wifi?

That is all anyone can talk about and it isn’t good.


18 posted on 09/04/2009 4:51:20 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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There was a guy in Germany who gave a great speech

Whenever we have yet another prime time infomercial by Obi Wan Nairobi, I think about my visits to Haiti about 10 years ago.

Our host had a TV. When we asked why she never had it on, she replied, It was just Aristide, all the time.

When I would take walks in the evening, I would hear a few TVs on, and sure enough, it was Aristide with his endless drivel.

I get so tickled when you all use the term TOTUS, (Teleprompter of the United States). That term just supports our suspicion that all he really is is a voice that repeats words that others have written.

Since we don't know the authorship of these words and the agenda behind them, why bother listening.

If Congress had the courage, they should begin hearings on every aspect of his executive branch; his appointments, his citizenship, his spending.

But they won't, because they have become tools for each other.

19 posted on 09/04/2009 4:51:55 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (A non-posting Freeper makes no spelling errors (Have a Misspell on me))
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The MSM will go GAGA over this like that stupid speech he gave on Racism after the Rev Wright expose


20 posted on 09/04/2009 4:55:53 AM PDT by uncbob
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