stocking someone forgot to stuff. are they meant as warm wishes or self-advertisements? does it matter when you see a holiday card without a personal greeting or you simply elated to see one in the first place? eric hoover, senior writer for the chronicle of higher education joins me now and deno dibala. your personal litmus test is what? ink? you need to see ink on the card for it to be legitimate? sure. call me old fashioned, but i turn these cards over looking for a smidgen of ink and there s none. i guess i just feel like, you know, i ve gone to a party, someone handed me a cup of eggnog. i can taste the eggs and milk and sugar, but someone forgot to put the essential ingredient in it. so yeah, ink. you re hammering my personal card. you re hammering the card that we sent out as a family this year. a lot of thought went into it. a lot of creativity went into it. but my wife works.
card it is, a cold fish of a card that is impersonal and has no ink on it hey, maybe that s better than no card at all. all i m saying is there is a difference when you get a card, and it may not even be a long note. it probably isn t a long note, but two or three lines that were meant for you that are personalized that make you think, you know, someone on the other end thought about me for 48 seconds, and hey, especially because we re tweeting and instagraming our way through life now, those 48 seconds worth of thought, a complete sentence or two written in your honor? hey, that feels pretty good to me. the one thing i want to say dan, make sure you e-mail me your mailing address because i m not sure about eric hoover, but i m adding you to my list for next year, for sure. please do. i m very happy to get it. the big e-mail blast would be, i m on your side, eric. that s an e-mail blast, but a personal card takes more work. it definitely takes work, but i only 30 seconds
0 get it by january 1st. this afternoon, however, a slight delay was announced by the white house. the new deadline will be tomorrow at midnight. the white house said the move was to accommodate high demand. on friday the president announced the number of people signing up for health care plans has dramatically ticked up this month. half a million people signed up on the federal exchange in the first three weeks of december alone. hundreds of thousands more signed up in state exchanges. and we found out today one of those people was the president himself. the white house announced over the weekend president obama enrolled in a health care plan through the washington, d.c. market place. the move is largely symbolic, because as president, his health care is provided by military doctors. this all comes as a new cnn poll out today shows support for the law is at an all time low with the public. and over the weekend republicans continued hammering away at the law as an unworkable, unfixable
0 half a million people signed up on the federal exchange in the first three weeks of december alone. hundreds of thousands more signed up in state exchanges. and we found out today one of those people was the president himself. the white house announced over the weekend president obama enrolled in a health care plan through the washington, d.c. market place. the move is largely symbolic, because as president, his health care is provided by military doctors. this all comes as a new cnn poll out today shows support for the law is at an all time low with the public. and over the weekend republicans continued hammering away at the law as an unworkable, unfixable mess. will that message sell during next year s midterm elections. john allen for politico and jonathan alter. jonathan, let me begin with you. some said at politico this is more or less an election for the president. if the deadline was an election, i want to know, did he win or did he lose? i guess i would disagree with the, y
has some wondering if the tradition lost its personal touch. eric hoover writes today s cards may appear more personalized with photos with kids and pets, but when i flip them over i find to trace of ink, no original message. these prefab indicated greetings seem as empty as a stocking someone forgot to stuff. joining me now, sirius xm s michael smerconish, also msnbc contributor and i have not received a holiday card from you. it s funny you say that, i have those i ve received so far right here and you re not in this stack thus far, tamron. you re on my list. i don t know if i made your cut. you are going to make my cut. i m sending mine out this weekend. what is your take on it? you see these pictures, some of them awkward and sensitive, but then you flip the card and open it, there s nothing. it s true, i have to tell