Vaunted Obama message machine has a central place

When billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the president Barack Obama economic message confusing and undermines public confidence, it is worth listening to. Half of his first 100 days in Office Communicator, than Obama has problems, the right tone when it comes to economics, partnerships bleak warnings about the future with optimism. In the campaign, Obama said the president should be able to do several things simultaneously, and the White House does. He and his colleagues interspliced remarks about the economy, while the introduction of daily health initiatives, stem cell research and on Tuesday, to education. Last week, the White House, spent some time that the conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party. But Obama, as well as Minister of Finance, Timothy Geithner, the White House economic guru Lawrence Summers and others have still not been able to explain how they can save the banks, some of them to the brink of collapse. He speaks of "stress tests" for banks in difficulty, or nationalization, or not, is not small - but there is no clear plan. Buffett, an informal adviser to Obama believes financial seers on Wall Street, CNBC reported on Monday, news was "very, very clear that the government will." "And I think we have, and the nature of the political process, a little bit, but we have mixed messages and the public does not know. They believe that they do not know what happened and their reaction, and then completely" he said. The White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs reacts defensive, Obama said only seven weeks in office, and there should be no surprise that "all the problems, the root of many years, not been solved." Obama, education event on Tuesday, he rejected criticism that he was trying too many things at once with three predecessors, the juggling problems on many fronts - Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. "President Kennedy is not the luxury of choosing between civil rights, and the moon. And we do not have the luxury of our economy, and is now a long-term reconstruction," he said. Obama has the support of the population is high. Polls him 60 percent approval, and experts say that voters are ready to show him the time to make his sea legs. "He has an audience that is concerned about the president some slack and understand that this is a deep problem," said American Enterprise Institute political analyst Norman Ornstein. This may be a problem for the summer "But if there are any signs of progress in any case, there is no evidence that the measures taken in the period from January to February is not done in June, July or August, then it becomes a major political issue" said Ornstein. University of Virginia, Larry SABATO, a political scientist said that the Government has left confusion about what is happening with the banks and may be inadvertently sending the message that "the problem is too big for the government to resolve." "I can not imagine what they are talking about banks," he said. Tony Fratto, Treasury, and former Press Secretary, White House of former President George Bush said in confusing messages not the only problem. "This is not just a problem of communication. This is partly because the market does not give clear information about what are the intentions of the Ministry of Finance for the rest of the program, he said.