Report: Obama “Tested Message With Reporters”..
Obama continues blurring the line between the press and the White House.
(Howard Kurtz/Daily Beast) — The populist reincarnation of President Obama since Labor Day — with his stinging attacks on tax-coddled millionaires, corporate-jet owners, and oil companies — emerged from a moment of reflection during a summer of discontent.
For months after the Democrats’ “shellacking” last November, Obama resisted bashing corporate America and the GOP as he had done so effectively as the “hope and change” orator in 2008 and as a young president who pushed through Congress an $800 billion stimulus, a universal-health-care law, and sweeping Wall Street reform.
But by the end of June, with the nation teetering near the brink of default and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walking away from negotiations over a debt deal, the president summoned his top aides for a frank assessment of how to get back on track.
Senior adviser David Plouffe told Obama it was time to “draw some lines in the sand” by launching an aggressive assault on tax breaks for corporate high fliers and hedge-fund managers.
The president was energized, saying such loopholes were “indefensible” while spending was being slashed and that “this is a public argument we can and should win.” He tested the message with reporters soon afterward.
HT: Drudge
Posted by ZIP on Monday, October 3, 2011, at 12:09 pm | 
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One day, we will all be asking the hypothetical ‘Hitler’ question:
If you could go back in time….
Uh, Obama asked the media because the mainstream media is SO in touch with Americans.
Or something like that.Yeh.
Obama does not focus on what is best for the country. He’s just interested in how he can manipulate a plausable message to be re-elected.
These are very sad times for our country.
I always thought FDR was a conniving socialist…obowmao is FDR redux…only no where near as good at what he does………….
“Thus began a full-throated return to Obama’s populism, which had been muffled by frustrating attempts at bipartisanship and a stop-and-start effort with Republicans and the business community that one adviser says had become a “road wreck.”” – what attemtps at bipartisanship?
“The guests urged Obama to offer major companies that have kept overseas profits offshore a one-time tax holiday to repatriate their earnings and pay a rate well below the normal 35 percent corporate tax. The payoff, the executives argued, would come in reinvestment in capital projects, R&D, and new hiring, as well as new distributions to stockholders and investors—essentially a stimulus of private money that also would fill the U.S. Treasury with elusive tax dollars. (The firms represented in the room held more than $100 billion offshore, with Apple alone sitting on $47.6 billion.)” – and obowmao said, “NO”.
Sounds like David Brooks swallowing the sausage again.
And who does this surprise?
Lying and tearing down straw men seem to get this guy all aroused.
So basically the commander-in-chief polled his water-carriers on the effectiveness of the message that they are obliged to sell to the great unwashed. “Wow boss, that sounds like a winner!” This administration is getting more inept with each passing day.
the days of TASS and Pravda are upon us…
thankfully we still have the internet..
Of course the MSM approved of the message. They are on the communist’s side to begin with. Where are the men of the Republican party????? Did someone take their balls away and hide them in a sock drawer?? What gutless wimps the Republicans are. No Strength of character. They are trembling in their panties while Chairman O goes off on the Republic! Their silence makes them complicit!!
Great shifty eyed pic. Perfect.
Only one word for Obama IMPEACH!
That article does NOT support the proposition implied by the title, namely, that Obama and reporters met behind closed doors to discuss his jobs pivot. In context, it could simply mean he went public with the pivot via the reporters.
HITLER WAS A VEGAN,HITLER WANTED GUN CONTROL,HITLER WAS A ANIMAL LOVER,HITLER WAS INTO NEW AGE MYSTICISM,HITLER WAS A DRUG ADICT,HITLER WAS A LIBERAL
a bullshitter looking for stories or ‘narratives’
the opposite of truth = obama the muslim brother
God forbid he should test the message with what he believes. Oh wait! He doesn’t believe in anything, I forgot.