Tonight at 7:30/6:30 PM CT, Obama will address the nation about his decision to involve the U.S. military in Libya.
Obama will deliver his speech from the National Defense University in Washington.
Why mess with that? Why not just do the speech from the Oval Office?
These carefully choreographed events are lame.
Obama should keep it simple and just talk to the nation from the White House.
The guy seems to be afraid of speaking from behind his desk. The time is weird, too; very early.
Matt Spetalnick, Reuters, writes:
President Barack Obama faces the challenge on Monday of convincing Americans he has clear military aims and a U.S. exit strategy in the Libya conflict as he seeks to counter growing congressional criticism.
In a high-stakes televised address, Obama -- accused by many lawmakers of failing to explain the U.S. role in the Western air campaign against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi -- will try to define the mission's purpose and scope.
This should be interesting.
Obama is on the record slamming President Bush and U.S. involvement in Iraq. He declared that to be a "dumb war."
What brilliance!
It's going to be tough for him to explain why action in Libya is appropriate with his history of insisting military operations in Iraq were not.
Obama is going to have to do a lot of contortions to give the impression that he knows what he's doing regarding Libya.
To date, he and his administration haven't given the American people a coherent message.
They've been remarkably incompetent.
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