Does President Obama Run the Risk of Over Exposure?

Thismay be an extreme example but it highlights a point that I have been thinking about for a while, when will the people tire of seeing President Obama on television every day? Will the president suffer from over exposure?

  An elderly woman is so sick and tired of seeing the president on the television all of the time that she is selling her televisions. She just can’t take the endless lecturing. As I wrote, this is an extreme example but it leads to a point, and that point is does President Obama risk being over exposed? He seems to be on the cover of every magazine and in television commercials all of the time. It is as if the campaign has never ended, or more accurately, as if he is already campaigning for his reelection.

  One criticism that I had about President Bush was that he was not out in the public and on television defending his policies enough, but President Obama seems to be taking the opposite approach to the extreme.

  At some point the American people are going to get sick and tired of seeing him all of the time. This may already be the case, as every nationally televised press conference that the president has held has drawn fewer and fewer viewers. At some point the American people are going to tire of his talk and are going to demand action.

  We may be seeing the beginning of this right now. It would seem to me that the American people are starting to tune the president out while they wait for him to actually accomplish something. Talk will only get you so far and with the short attention span of many Americans it would seem to me that people are beginning to tire of seeing President Obama 24 hours a day. I think that his rapidly falling approval ratings are partially a result of this. When people see the president on television they are beginning to wonder what else is on. There is nothing new with the rhetoric that Obama is spewing, the American people have heard it all before from this president and they nay be beginning to resent the fact that they just cannot escape from him.

  President Obama comes off as preachy whenever he steps in front of a microphone and this has to be wearing on the American people. President Clinton had a knack for promoting his agenda and appealing to the American people, President Obama is trying to follow in his footsteps but there seems to be something missing.

  I truly believe that President Obama’s plan to be this exposed will backfire on him, people are beginning to shrug their shoulders when they see him speak. By being out in front of the cameras all of the time the president is, in my opinion, going to wear out his welcome.

  The president is running the risk of being overexposed. Barack Obama was “it” for a while but soon people will be looking for the next big thing. Much like that song that you hear on the radio and love the first several times that you hear it, it eventually gets played so much that you begin to resent radio stations that play the song, Barack Obama runs the risk of turning the “hope” that he campaigned on into resentment.