President Obama on Tuesday began a public relations offensive geared toward boosting voters' attitudes toward his health care overhaul and trying to stem Democrats' midterm election losses from an electorate skeptical of his policies.
Before facing seniors anxious about the effects of the health care law at a suburban Maryland town-hall gathering, Mr. Obama, stung by early criticism of his handling of the Gulf oil spill, stepped up his hard line against BP by saying in an interview on NBC's "Today" program that he'd have fired the oil company's chief executive officer and was constantly monitoring the cleanup in order to know "whose ass to kick."
Tough-talking Obama aims to reverse poll slide
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