"Obama plans blitz to boost public opinion of health-care effort"

[Clio the Leo]

Obama plans blitz to boost public opinion of health-care effort
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 22, 2010

President Obama is set to begin an immediate public relations blitz aimed at turning around Americans' opinion of the health-care bill.

Planning inside the West Wing for the post-vote period has proceeded quietly, even as the president and his allies on Capitol Hill were fighting for the measure's passage.

Reshaping the legislation's image will take place in three phases, White House aides said: the immediate aftermath; the seven months until the November midterm elections; and the several years that follow, during which many provisions in the measure will gradually take effect.

Driving the message during those periods is the belief among Obama's top advisers that Republicans have boxed themselves into a corner with unanimous opposition to the legislation and talk of a repeal.

"The Republicans have way overshot the runway in their criticism of health reform," said White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer.

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In the coming days, Obama plans to take several trips across the nation to counter what Democrats expect will be an onslaught of criticism and misinformation about the overhaul.

Administration officials are also preparing talking points and fact sheets that lawmakers can take home with them on their Easter vacation, Obama advisers said. Those documents are being developed with Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, aides said.

That immediate help -- along with efforts by the Democratic National Committee, its Organizing for America project and outside groups that supported the health-care legislation -- could be critical to Democrats' hope of retaining control of Congress in the November elections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032103130_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010032100955

[NJmaverick]

1. This is what is needed with a complicated bill

you have to explain and sell it to the American people.

[Cha]

5. Zactly..you don't just get it done by a squeaker and

then go on to the next thing. Look at all the mis and dis-information going around here. The President is carrying through.

[treestar]

8. Right, carrying through!

And you can see the misinformation all over DU - can only imagine the hinterlands!

[Cha]

10. The hinterlands are submerging in mis-disinformation!

[liberal N proud]

2. He is at his best in front of crowds

It charges him up, it charges the people.

His events are electric, I have been to 3.

[daleanime]

3. Very unlikely to say anything that could ....

improve this bill. :banghead:

[HughMoran]

6. Can I help with that?

:evilgrin:

[daleanime]

7. Amuse your self all you want...

couldn't feel much worse about the situation.

[Frustratedlady]

4. I realize this is needed, but I wish he'd not travel until things cool down.

I fear for his safety...particularly after some of the comments I've read. The RW extremes have fired up the nuts and they are just waiting for the go-ahead signal.

He is too good of a man to lose. Any harm to him would be gawd awful.

[Peacetrain]

9. Flash Cards in hand.. so when stuck on stupid types keep reiterating

their embedded talking points.. just keep coming back at them, and do not back down.

We are a tad too nice sometimes, and let those blowhards go on and on, spinning their own reality

[DCBob]

11. Preferably pictures not words..

lol!