Americans Tune Out Obama's Healthcare Sell
All Obama, all the time! On Sunday the president appeared on five different news shows talking about the pressing need for healthcare reform NOW. The subtext here is “you people aren’t smart enough to understand how much we need healthcare reform so I’m going to keep pounding this idea in your head like children until you accept it.”
The president’s efforts to cajole Americans into buying into his healthcare reverie risks looking desperate. Americans would like to see jobs created and the economy improve. That’s what they want right now and healthcare reform isn’t on the menu, whether it’s $900 billion or $1 trillion.
During his taped interview with Bob Schieffer, Obama said: “Healthcare has become a proxy for a broader set of issues of how much government should be involved in our economy.”
The president is right, Americans are disturbed by the expanding role of government in their lives and they don’t want more government control in healthcare or anything else for that matter. Unyielding in his position, Obama refuses to listen to the cries from the angry crowd. Perhaps this is why the American people are tuning him out, covering up their ears and shouting “this isn’t change we can believe in!”