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March 20, 2009
Evening Buzz: The Man, The Message
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Cate Vojdik
AC360° Writer

Tonight on 360, we’ll tackle a couple of key questions at the end of a head-spinning week for the White House. Is President Obama overexposed? Is he overextended? Both? Neither?

Mister Obama seemed to be everywhere this week - from a St. Patrick’s Day event on Capitol Hill to two town hall meetings in California to The Tonight Show. We counted 17 presidential photo ops in all. Meantime, back in Washington, the Obama administration was trying to douse the flames from the AIG bonus fiasco.

Some of the president’s critics say he should be spending more time in the Oval Office keeping a closer eye on the economic crisis and efforts to fix it. Do they have a point? Has President Obama taken on too many issues at once? What do you think?

We’ll also dig deeper on the fallout from the president’s remark about the Special Olympics that forced the White House to issue an apology. What’s your take?

But part of the money she’s turning down would go to special needs students. Meantime, today Palin took President Obama to task for making that insensitive remark about the Special Olympics.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, school superintendents in the state are already lobbying legislators to reverse Palin’s decision. They say they desperately need the stimulus money. We’ll have all the details.

We’ve also been investigating a recession danger you need to know about. It could be a phone call. It might come in an email. Either way, it’s a scam and a growing problem. Fraudsters are offering hope in hard times – but they’re only after your money. We’ll tell you how to keep the crooks out of your pockets.

We’ll also show you the lengths some seniors are going to get a job. These are Americans who were getting ready to retire after decades of hard work – but forced to find new jobs now that their nest eggs are shattered. With 11 million Americans out of work, competition is tough – especially when you’re competing with youth. Some are turning to plastic surgery to get an extra edge on the competition – even if it means going under the knife.

For the family of Natasha Richardson, a heartbreaking week is coming to an end. Today in New York, close friends and family of Richardson gathered at a wake for the 45-year-old actress, who died from a brain injury after a skiing accident. New details are emerging about the timeline following her fall. It now appears she didn’t get medical help until almost four hours after she fell on a bunny slope at a Canadian resort. Initial reports said she was taken to a hospital about an hour after the fall. Why the conflicting information? And more important, could Natasha Richardson have been saved if she’d received medical attention sooner? We’ll have all the details and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, our chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, will weigh in.

See you at 10 pm eastern.

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karin los angeles   March 20th, 2009 8:58 pm ET

out here n the real world – where everyone talks like Barack did, we would know what he meant and we would know it was not in bad tast. We don't parse every word, and we all have a sense of humor. You guys make a mountain out of a molehill. When is last time you showed condition Iraq is in, or talked about war profiteering not just the story of the day you blow up and make huge. We the people don't think like you and cable news is going to suffer, because you are so on a different planet.

Annie Kate   March 20th, 2009 9:04 pm ET

On Obama's special Olympics remark I do not think he meant any offense with it; he was just trying to find a clever way to say he had a lot of work to do to be a good bowler. I think perhaps we have become too sensitive to what people say and look for reasons to be offended.

Palin is a disaster IMHO. I am so glad she is not our VP. Between her terrible environmental stands and then this, I'm convinced that she has risen further than her competence would warrant.

4 hours to get medical treatment – I will be interested in that timeline. From what the doctors have been saying timeliness in treatment for epidural hematomas are the key to the outcome – after 4 hours I wouldn't be surprised if she was already past the point where any doctor could have helped her. Such a shame for her and her family. Its hard to lose a parent, especially when the children are young like hers are.

Michelle D. Fonthill,Ontario   March 20th, 2009 9:05 pm ET

Obama's off remark was not to offend any special challenged people or thier olympic sport.It seem that they are taking everything he says to ploticiical correctness.It's not i believe to any remark but he will regret the choice of words he used any way people are allways nit picking it to death . Natasha Richarson death is so sad and tragically life too short i feel for her family .

Cindy   March 20th, 2009 9:06 pm ET

I myself think that Obama needs to stay in DC and get his administration in order and figure out for real who ordered the bonuses to be loopholed in by Dodd.

I'm glad we'll get to see Sanjay tonight. I've been wondering why he isn't on with this brain injury stuff going on. I guess because he just had a baby huh?

Can't wait to see the show tonight

Cindy..Ga.

Michelle   March 20th, 2009 9:15 pm ET

i think the Washington press corp is jealous.
Obama does not need the MSM to get his
message out. There are way too many avenues
these days.Mr. Obama is doing just fine.

earle,florida   March 20th, 2009 9:20 pm ET

I'd like to comment about FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, and the difficult job she has had to endure after watching "Campbell Brown No-Bias" this evening. Just about 13 years ago in 1996 the'" Deposits Insurance Funds Act" prevented the FDIC from assessing premiums against well capitalized banks if the deposit insurance funds exceeded the 1.25% designated reserve ratio (Note:1993 banks began paying premiums based on their risk). In late 2008 (EESA)the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" was implemented raising the limit of FDIC coverage from $100k to $250k,returning to the prior limit of $100k 12/3109! My empathy for local small banks (mom,and pop/local business,etc.,) and similarly medium/large regional banks have to pay higher premiums at the expense of the, "To Big To Fail Banks"(which by the way are getting larger as I write) Citigroup,Bank of America,Wells Fargo,and JP Morgan Chase to name a few! To add insult to injury they are taking business from the smaller banks, being that they have hefty FDIC premiums to pay, sucking up their (valuable cash reserves) debt/equity ratio for lending. What a mess,..Pathetic ! PS. MS. Sheila Bair is one heck of a woman that get's all my respect.

c,ca   March 20th, 2009 9:28 pm ET

I am soooooo sick of hearing about Obama's special olympics gaffe.

He tried to make a joke about himself – poor choice of words – it bombed, big time. He apologized – drop it.

Now everybody's on the bandwagon. I especially get a kick out of Sarah Palin, who was slinging her infant around as campaign prop without a thought for his well being. Now she's so offended by this horrible remark. OMG!!!! Will she ever recover from the shock????

I like Maria Shriver very much and her statement was ok. But I agree with Arnold – it was a mistake, they all do it. WE all do it. Let it go.

Actions speak louder than words. The President is a family man. He would not say anything to deliberately hurt kids.

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