Is There Anything The President Can Say That Will Change Your Position On The Syria Strike?......

[global1]

This great push by PBO to sway public opinion puzzles me. The American Public basically has weighed in on this issue over the last week or so. Our Congressional Representatives in both the House and Senate have been barraged by calls and contacts and the opinion seems to be overwhelmingly against this strike.

The President is doing a number of interviews tonight and tomorrow he will address the nation and coincidentally the vote in the Senate will come on the anniversary of 9/11 - one day after his address to the nation. I don't think that they are giving time enough for the American People to change their minds and re-call their Senators and Congressmen.

This seems all window dressing for a decision that is already made.

I really don't know if there is anything the President can say that will change public opinion. So why all this effort?

[gopiscrap]

1. Nope

[quinnox]

2. Only if he said they have new information that Assad was really behind 9-11

But that is of course a pure fantasy and not in the cards.

[Autumn]

3. Nothing, nada, ziltch, no sale.

[Catherina]

10. My thoughts exactly n/t

[treestar]

4. So much for the bully pulpit

It is true the President is not a very persuasive person. None of those independents would ever change their minds.

[FarCenter]

5. His persuasive abilities peaked in the 2008 campaign.

[randome]

6. "Assad is manufacturing an army of Breitbart clones. Release the Kraken!"

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[indepat]

7. Not even trying to scare the be-jesus out of me would ever change my mind. Americans, by

choice, live in a scary world facing being gunned down by someone, ala a Zimmerman-type, almost every day. We live with and accept this scary environment, we lived with the threat of nuclear annihilation for forty years, so the likes of a middle-east tyrant ranks way down the list of dangers imo we accept and must face every day.

[global1]

8. Just As I Thought - So Why Is The President Making This Effort To Sway National Opinion?.....nt

[indepat]

11. It doesn't make any sense, Admiral.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. "Al-Assad has bombed NYC and declared war on the United States..."

Then I would change my position.

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. No. Mostly because he has no credibility. n/t