Americans everywhere are salivating with anticipation; who needs NFL football?
After all, what could be more mesmerizing than hearing Mr. Obama proselytize about his spellbinding reasons for the government to seize control of our free market, well-fuctioning, world-leading, health care system?
And think of the tough, grueling questions those fire-breathing network commentators, such as George (I'm not-wearing-a wig) Stephanopoulos, and David (that's-my-real hair) Gregory, will be asking:
Suck-up Commentator: "Good morning, Mr. Obama."
OBAMA: "Good morning."
Suck-up Commentator: "Recently, vicious attacks from right wing extremists, calling you a liar, have been interpreted as veiled racism. How do you respond?"
OBAMA: "As I've said many times before, race has no place in the very serious problems all Americans face in revamping the ever-rising costs that challenge us in reforming our nation's health care system."
Suck-up Commentator: "Mr Obama; your republican opponents have bitterly opposed your proposals for health care reform; saying it would be far too costly, and dangerously over-burden the massive debt loads that future generations already will be forced to pay? How do you respond?"
OBAMA: "Let me be perfectly clear! We will cover for all costs regarding government health care reform by simply eliminating all the waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaire. The time for debate is over! Doing nothing is not an option!"
Suck-up Commentator: "Mr. Obama. Most Americans say they are perfectly happy with their employer-based health insurance; and see no reason at all to make ANY changes. How do you respond?"
OBAMA: "As I've said many times before; health care costs are rising at a far faster rate than inflation; Many Americans can no longer afford health insurance premiums, which in most cases, are taking up to 1/4 of the average American's entire family budget."
Suck-up Commentator: "But Mr. Obama, in the face of such fierce partisan oppostion, and even from many members of your own party, why the big rush to pass a reform bill now?"
OBAMA: "Why just yesterday, I received a letter from a white woman, er, woman in Chattahoochee, Wyoming, who complained to me that her insurance premiums had gone up another 30 percent that year; and the day after she dropped her coverage, she contracted viral whooping cough, and can no longer work. So because of greedy insurance executives, this poor individual will beforced to go on welfare, which is a burden to us all. As I've said many times before, we can never return to a robust economy until we eliminate the burdensome costs as a result of our nation's bloated private health care system."
Suck-up Commentator: "You seem pretty confident. Don't you sometimes worry that perhaps you might be taking on a bit too much? That maybe, you should just spend the rest of the year on cap and trade legislation, Afghanistan, and the Iran nuclear crisis, and reflecting on what you have already accomplished? After all Mr. Obama, why take the risk of passing a bill that has proven to be so unpopular with so many Americans, who have been holding the tea parties and townhall meetings. Doesn't that concern you while you're - relatively speaking- still early in your presidency?"
OBAMA: (stammering noticeably) "Uh, umm, ey-ah-ah...(stabs right index finger at the air) make no mistake; during my long, hard presidential campaign, I uh, uh (now recovers) promised a hope-filled America that everyone has a right to health care; that health care should be available to not just those wealthy that can afford it, but to ALL Americans everywhere (grins broadly). No individual American can succeed unless we all succeed together. And as president of the United States, government reform of health care remains number one on my prority list; a promise I plan to fulfill to all of Amerca!
Suck-up Commentator: "Thank you very much for appearing today Mr. Obama (they shake hands). We'll be back, in a minute, with a final word..." (break for commercial)
Unbelievably, by day's end on Sunday, Obama will have done 74 broadcast interviews in the first year of his presidency. During their entire eight-year stints in the Whitehouse, George W. Bush did 40; and Bill Clinton 46.