DON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN! -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 08-14-09

            Howdy at the end of the week…

 

            It’s awfully embarrassing to be the spokesperson for a prominent person and have to say: “He didn’t mean it.”  Or “She misspoke.” Or … “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ – is!” 

 

            Such a scenario played out this week between New Hampshire and Washington. The more the President stays on the road – and the further he gets away from teleprompter situations… like town hall meetings… the more he’s liable to get his tangue tongled around his eye teeth and can’t see what he’s saying – or has said.

 

            In today’s case the mixup actually began back in 1988 when Jesse Jackson proposed universal, one payer health care and all the Democrats were caught off guard and had to scramble to figure out what they wanted to say. It was two years afterwards when Mr. Clinton ascended the White House steps and no one could ‘say him nay.’ And so he often said what he said but nobody exactly knew what he meant. Same thing happened with Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater and a host of others including both Bush ’41 and Bush ’43.

 

            The main thing is when you go ‘off script’ you’d better be sure of your footing. In the heat of a campaign – and that seems to be what we’re still in… or anticipating being in – the going gets rapid fire and tough questions are put – and you get held accountable for the answers even if you were just stuttering.

 

            So… we had that played out this week. Just remember some day it’ll come your turn… and you’ll find that “HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE.”  Like I’ve told you before. Now you can remember it.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN

Just A Minute – The memory of AARP members chasing Dan Rostenkowski down the street in Chicago is still fresh from 20 years ago this month when he supported Hillary’s health reforms. President Obama told his Tuesday New Hampshire Town Hall meeting (quote) “AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, OK?” (unquote)

Oops….AARP immediately said the White house had not endorsed any of the legislative drafts. Bob Gibbs, the President’s Press Aide, said Obama had “misspoken.” [Translation, the teleprompter wasn’t on.] A Democrat media consultant told the ­Washington Times the President hadn’t ‘sold it well enough.’

          Quinnipiac University recent poll says only 39% of “mature” voters think the President’s plan – whatever it is – will benefit them. The above 60 crowd are heavily counted on by White House staffers to come to the President’s aid – but videos of crucial town hall meetings show a preponderance of elderly opposition, plus they always have a high voter turnout. The AARP staff doesn’t want to repeat the mistake of the 80’s.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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