Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy

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358. "If I where the POTUS, I would give a weekly television address."

He DOES give a "Weekly Address" both as video (available on YouTube and on Whitehouse.gov) and audio (available for broadcast on local radio stations) EVERY Saturday.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address

I listen to it on the local all-news station here in Philly at ~6:08 am Saturday mornings. Of course when Shrub did his addresses, this SAME #1 news radio station played the address at 10:06 am, but the black guy's address was relegated to 6-something in the morning. Of course the television networks would never air anything from him outside of national emergencies.

I remember during his first year in office when you even had schools with RW-organized mass protests to refuse to show a "back to school" video that he recorded -

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Local-Schools-Refuse-To-Air-Obamas-Speech-57711982.html
http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2009824700_apusobamaschoolspeech.html

and each year they continue the freak-out and refuse to air any Presidential "Back to School" messages.

http://www.politicususa.com/2011/09/28/obama-back-to-school-teabag-terror.html

How can anyone operate in so toxic an environment that after the snub happens, people are in shock, but then quickly forget what happened in order to numb their senses to the idiocy... and then they go back to whining about "messaging".

I do agree that maybe Congress should have the Speaker and Majority leader participate in the equivalent of the UK's "Question Time" in Parliament. But then our legislature would never agree to do such - let alone for the public that elected them.

And as a note about the CSPANs - even when Congress is not in session and the channels are freed up for other programming, very rarely will they offer to air any of the President's speeches (and they may do major ones "once&quot or any liberal events except maybe overnight during a graveyard shift. In fact, they often fill their airtime with drivel from AEI, Heritage, and every lunatic fringe RW "conference" (in quotes) featuring every RW loon under the sun.

If you don't control the means for broadcast dissemination, then your message can be perfect but unheard. Fortunately the younger crowd does utilize the alternate media offered on the internet and that's about the best one can do unless liberals buy up some brick and mortar media shops.