By Danette Gamble, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel

Over-exposure. It has killed many a career. Just ask Ricky Martin.

During the late 1990’s Ricky Martin was “Livin’ la Vida Loca.” He was everywhere. One couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing “upside, inside out, she’s livin’ la vida loca.” Catchy tune. You couldn’t get it out of your head. I actually enjoyed it the first hundred thousand times I heard it.

However, day after day, you couldn’t turn on your television without seeing the video. You couldn’t drive with your windows down without hearing “she’ll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.” You couldn’t get rid of it no matter how hard you tried.

Poor Ricky’s face was on magazines and posters. No matter where you looked or what you listened to, there was Ricky Martin. You couldn’t get away from him.

It got so bad that the line in the song that goes "she'll take away your pain like a bullet to your brain" actually started making sense to me. Or, it was giving me ideas.

So, where in the world is Ricky Martin now? He had a couple of minor hits after “Loca,” then disappeared off the charts.

What happened to Ricky Martin's career? He was over-exposed. The constant barrage of Ricky Martin exposed his weaknesses. The more you saw or heard from him, the more you evaluated and re-evaluated his talent level, his voice range, his dance moves.

Finally, because of so much Ricky, so much of the time, he became less entertaining and more irritating--which brings us to:

“Barack TV: All Barack, All the time”

President Barack Obama’s numbers are falling. Could it be over-exposure? Have we seen his shtick so much now that it isn’t just boring, it’s irritating?

He is truly a gifted speaker, but his message regarding healthcare reform is like a broken record. “…I will not raise your taxes one cent…” How many times is he going to repeat that cheap line?

To save President Obama’s numbers, he needs to back off and give us, and himself, a break. Take a couple of weeks off from the teleprompters.

Advice to President Obama:

Stay away from the media for just a couple of weeks.

Then, when you return, we, with our short attention spans, will once again be awed by your oracle prowess and feel like livin’ la vida loca one more time.