Obama "Unfocused"

When race relations are easier to talk about than healthcare reform, we have a really big problem.

Change... the subject?

(HuffPo)

"When you get Stephanopoulos, Huffington, Will, Brazil, and Krugman to agree on the high-holy conservative talkRadio trope that Obama, of all people, was unfocused, something went seriously wrong."

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Anyone who saw the first 3/4 of Wednesdays infamous healthcare press conference would have come away informed, but if you stayed to the end, you would have forgotten all of that.

To paraphrase Jon Stewart: 50 minutes of healthcare policy... 30 seconds of racial controversy... I wonder what the media will lead with tomorrow?

It may be that healthcare reform was never really possible in the first place, and if it fails this time, Gates-gate will be the historical moment we will point to and blame, saying that it happened then and there, where healthcare reform went off the rails. That the Senate announced the following day that Obama's legislative deadline is dead says a lot about how blurry his point got that night.

Here's what we SHOULD be talking about.



It's not that Obama didn't make a great case Wednesday night, but he should have known the press would ditch healthcare's imperative in favor of a racist scandal.

More cynical voices say that's a perfectly obvious outcome, that it's hard to ignore their notion that Obama may have intended it. They have a point.

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