Obama on Letterman and Healthcare Reform

Check out Obama on Letterman talking healthcare reform. The health care reform talk is near the end and includes Obama's take on racism as a main cause of all the dissent, anger and town hall madness or even the most Rep. Joe Wilson behavior during his address.

I find it interesting and frankly, quite striking, that Obama is using popular media like the media to advocate for health care reform. That's meant to be a good comment by the way. Talk about getting out there and promoting the cause. I guess in terms of convincing people, you gotta give the guy credit for taking the road less travelled. I think this goes back to some of the comments that were brought up at the health care reform workshop and in some ways points back to the idea in policy that the President has a national constituency and in that sense has a unique leverage.

I don't necessarily know if Letterman's audience are in some ways biased or if Letterman himself is biased, it is New York afterall and maybe the optimist in me would still like to believe that using this new form of advocacy by the President would reach a wider audience. In 200c, Oprah was noted to be one of the most effective health educators around.

In that case, Mr. President, has your staff been talking with Oprah's people? After all, she does have a new season and most likely a new couch.