Actually, Gupta is a practicing brain surgeon, who performed several operations while in Iraq for CNN. Obama gets it that changing health care in America will require public support. Gupta has the audience and the communications skill to make the case effectively to people who have been looking up to him for years. I think it's a good pick.

And oh, yes, no doubt you are so wise. Almost perfect. While the *majority* of Americans are just fawning pawns to Obama. Get a grip on your huge ego, man.

Katic Couric! She won't last forever at CBS, after all, and Keith Olbermann is probably disenchanted with Obama's cabinet choices.

Why worry about how the message is delivered, or formed, when the problem is with Obama and his three, not two, strikes this week? Gupta, for Surgeon General, is best known for being on teevee, not for his medical practice. Why do we want a teevee guy for Surgeon General (no doubt to try to smile and try to nag 'n' nanny us to death with sickening smiles about “choosing good behaviors”)?

Katie Couric for press secretary would be perfect, but realize there remain plenty of us too wise to be fooled no matter how the lines of communication are handled, even if the rest of you nod your heads “knowingly” and obediently whenever Obama or one of his team has spoken.