If we could start this year’s fight for health care reform over, one thing which should have been different would have been to make better use of Barack Obama. The speech he gave before Congress last week probably should have been delivered months ago, before the debate became dominated by misinformation from the right. When Obama did not speak out enough, the vacuum was filled by people such as a crazy lady in Alaska writing on Facebook.
Obama is now making up for this mistake. After being all over last week, he will be on virtually all the Sunday interview shows. This weekend he will appear on all three of the network Sunday interview shows: This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC, Meet the Press on NBC and Face the Nation on CBS. He will also be interviewed on CNN and Univision. Apparently Obama is limiting his interviews to legitimate news organizations. As of now there are no plans to be interviewed on Fox.
While I did not vote for Obama , I am warming up to him. A lot of his passions and concerns are mine. We have a serious breakdown of family in this country and we need to do every thing we can to turn this around. And fathers are key to that. My father was loyal and was there the whole time I grew up and my daughters had me in the same way. But children who lack their father have all types of problems in life. Obama is a very positive roll model for all young men white and black.
I actually think, despite all the risks entailed, not appearing on Fox is a mistake.
Of course I’m particularly combative. 🙂
Still, the first thing I’d do if I were advising Obama is tell him to go on Glenn Beck and look the little meatball in the eye. 😉