President Obama is scheduled for a major spin offensive to try to win support for his stimulus spending bill:
Barack Obama is slated to sit down with the five major television news networks tomorrow, a media play that is almost certain to be part of a broader effort to sell his stimulus package to the American public.
The president will conduct interviews in the Oval Office with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX News on Tuesday afternoon, according to the official White House schedule. The sitdowns come at delicate time for the president, with concern mounting in Democratic circles that much of the debate on the stimulus has been dominated by the GOP.
Officially, the White House says it is not concerned with how the legislative process has played out. But, in private, party officials have grown acutely frustrated that the Obama White House, Democratic National Committee and congressional Democrats have not mounted a more concentrated defense of the stimulus package as Republicans seek to tar it as a “spending bill.”





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