Obama Fails to Rally Progressive Base in 'Tepid' Address

Nobody is happy with this guy!

Speaking at a point when the year-long effort to enact fundamental health-care reforms has stumbled badly -- in the face of united Republican opposition, wrangling between House and Senate Democrats and unfocused messaging from the president -- Obama made a renewed effort to find the common ground that has eluded almost everyone in Washington. Remarkably, the president clung to the hope for bipartisanship that was dashed at every turn in 2009 -- either with outright rejection by the "party of 'no'" or, worse yet, via compromises that handed ultimate authority over policy-making to Republican senators who diverted stimulus funding from job creation to tax cuts for the rich and Democrat-In-Name-Only Ben Nelson and Republican-In-Everything-But-Name Joe Lieberman, who forced the Senate to scrap the public option that was needed to challenge the grip of health insurance companies

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Did you see the "before" and "after" poll results last night? While everybody predicted the speech was going to be DOA, Obama bounced by almost 20%.

Not so shabby in my book.

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I did not and could you please provide those?

According to this on RCP his approval went down two tenths of a point from the 27th to the 28th. www.realclearpolitics.com...

Originally posted by genius/idoit
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I did not and could you please provide those?

These were the numbers on TV screen, I read off some channel right after teh address.