McClatchy reports:
If President Barack Obama got anything indisputably right at his news conference this week, it was this: The American people don't trust the federal government.When politicians from Cook County run things: it doesn't inspire confidence or trust in government. Could it ?
That's a major reason he's having such a hard time selling his plan to overhaul the nation's health care. Even if they like Obama himself, people just don't think that the government can handle anything big, let alone something as personal to them as their health care.
"I understand that people are feeling uncertain about this. They feel anxious, partly because we've just become so cynical about what government can accomplish that people's attitudes are, you know, even though I don't like this devil, at least I know it, and I like that more than the devil I don't know," the president said.
