While Mr. Gerson contends that months of Obama speeches have not erased deep public concerns with his health care plan, Geoff Garin, a Democratic strategist, called the address to Congress “the best policy address by a president since Lyndon Johnson talked about the Voting Rights Act in 1965.” Following an August dominated by attacks on the health care plan, Mr. Garin said Mr. Obama “was able to lift a debate that had got stuck in the mud up to a much higher place and let Obama and supporters of health care reform retake the high ground.” But the risk for any president is that at some point the public begins to tune out. "President Bush in 2007 actually gave some pretty good speeches about Iraq and nobody was paying attention anymore and so it just didn’t matter" Mr. Garin said. “People still pay attention to President Obama. Full Article at The New York Times