Sep 4, 2009 9:00 am22 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - After a brutal month of raucous town hall meetings, strident attacks and plunging approval ratings, President Obama will address healthcare reform in a speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. John Murphy is a professor of communication who has spent most of his career studying presidential rhetoric, writing extensively about John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, among others. In an interview with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain, Murphy talked about why Obama has been ineffective and what he needs to do to turn things around.