After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics

No one in the nation's capital is naive enough to think that President Barack Obama's address before Congress Wednesday evening was somehow, in one fell swoop, going to overcome all the opposition to health-care reform, the power of his rhetoric winning over skeptics like a latter-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But after the President's impassioned, 47-minute speech drew thunderous applause and improved poll ratings, even some of the most jaded ... Full Story »

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Posted by: via Fair Spin - Sep 11, 2009 - 8:32 AM PDT
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by Derek Hawkins - Sep. 11, 2009

Eh. Another reaction story to the speech that restates the obvious.

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by Joel Kulenkamp - Sep. 11, 2009

“[I]t didn’t take long the next day for the reality to set in that not much about the game had really changed. "Every day,” Senate Finance Committee ... More »

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