President Barack Obama appeared on five separate Sunday morning news shows today — essentially all of them except FOX News Sunday. Obama was dutifully on message, and stuck to many of the same talking points — sometimes word for word — in just about all of his appearances, whether discussing race, Afghanistan, investigations of the CIA or health care reform.It was health care reform, of course, that clearly seemed to be Obama’s top priority this morning. Again and again, he tried to paint proposed reform as modest and moderate, describing it as “well within the mainstream of what Americans have been talking about for years,” “very modest” and that it’s not “a radical plan.”
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