Obamacare: The primetime pitch
Five minutes to speech time… my first mistake was turning on MSNBC to start off with. According to Keith Olbermann, who’s always grimacing as if he just got a colonoscopy with a rose bush, we have what amounts to a third world health care system that can only be saved by a government that has demonstrated nothing but third world aspirations.
Fox News: “Obama’s running late.” Cabinet introduced — if you want to make half of them scatter, yell “Freeze! IRS!”
What, no parade of czars?
Does it seem odd that the president is so late to something that he says time is of the essence? Guns n Roses was more punctual.
By the way, if you aren’t near a TV you can watch the carnage online here.
Here he is… TOTUS stands at the ready:
“I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.” So at least we do agree on something.
“We are the only Democracy on earth that allows such hardship for its people.” Does Obama think he’s speaking in the Middle East again?
Michelle O. looks like she’s missing her favorite television show or something. Don’t worry, it’ll be over soon.
One reason people oppose Obamacare is not because the current system is grand, but because Obama’s “reformers” have done nothing but screwed up everything they’ve touched for the past several years, and the frequency and scope of the incompetence, idiocy, theft, Marxist leanings, lies and desperation is increasing exponentially. In other words, just because we don’t want a deaf, dumb and blind thief to take the wheel of the school bus doesn’t necessarily mean we’re thrilled with the current driver.
You can almost see the dollar signs in Pelosi’s freshly lifted eyes, can’t you?
Great, I’m reminded yet again why I didn’t want to vote for McCain.
“All Americans will be required to carry health insurance just like they’re required to carry auto insurance.” Sure, but I can choose not to have a car.
Pardon me for being cynical about not completely believing Obama’s “death panel” denial when the people writing the health care bill(s) will fight to the last for the glorious right to kill babies. Given that, why would offing a geezer here and there be considered so incredibly immoral?
Are politicians clapping at the prospect of keeping private industry honest? It’s the other way around or nothing at all.
Hey, where’s the UPS/FedEx vs. US Postal Service example?
“But wait, there’s more! If you’re one of the next one million callers….”
As it concerns the health care bill(s), we can believe Obama, or our lying eyes.
Throwing a bone on tort reform, then reeling it back in. The trial lawyers in Congress got shrinkage there for a second, but they’re okay now.
“More businesses will close” if government doesn’t spend another trillion dollars minimum?
If you had “46 minutes in” before Obama mentioned Ted Kennedy, you win the pool.
“Our self reliance. Our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government.” Did I walk in on the wrong speaker?
Speech ends. Feel better about America now? If all this was so true, you’d think that people would be fleeing the U.S. by the bushel instead of coming here by the ton. But then, people are stupid, and that’s the message.
Rep. Charles Boustany, a doctor, with the GOP response. Not bad, but still lacking enough punch — it needed something like “If you want the health care of your family in the hands of a bunch of people who couldn’t even properly budget a friggin’ car sale, be my guest.”
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That’s it, blame wall street for our overpriced health care /sarc
That’s because the heckler is “unamerican” and part of a “mob”.
UMPHA!!
this man is not bipartisan by any stretch of the imagination.
Where is that bonding of ideas he so loved to talk about a year ago?
Now he just attacks American citizens, talk show hosts, and Republicans.
What a lying sack of crap.
Can’t heckle THE ONE.
Overhead = profits. WOW!
“Self sufficient public option”.. IMPOSSIBLE!
i wathed about 10 minutes. Nothing new here. Insurance companies will be forced into agreements in which they know in advance they will lose money, plus they will be mandated to offer more coverage to everybody else. Subsidized care for the poor paid for by everybody else. Same talking points with more applause. And somehow we are supposed to believe this will save us money. Oh yeah, that is where the Hope comes in. Plus willing suspension of disbelief.
Pelosi could run a death panel… she wanted to kill with her look.
I keep getting logged out and have to sign back in. I wonder why???
ONLY Obama can exagerate about the plan..not the media or either party.
The analogy to private vs public universities is spot on.
There it is the Public Option!!!
Wants to listent to concerns????
….All three people on camera have dissed every American who stood in protest in August.
God he makes me sick.
30,000,000 new patients added to the system.
0 new doctors.
No health care rationing.
You would have to be as dumb as lgm to believe that formula works.
MM hates you, clearly. But she must hate me too, because the same thing happens to men when I click away from the page.
Just let Obama get between you and the care you need.
UMPAH!!!
When the government controls your health care, they control YOU. That’s it in a nutshell.
Why has America been burdened with this socialist fool for a President? Didn’t we have enough to worry about before the One Idiot came along?
I believe God is punishing us for something we’ve done.
Lying about deficits again
I am getting whiplash watching his head go back and forth between teleprompters.
Thank goodness Pres Obama dropped the Fedex vs. the Post Office comparison. LOL
HA! Bill Clinton also used to change the color of his hair depending on the venue… Disgusting! Democrats are just fake shells of what could have been useful humans. Now they are just tyrants.
His ultimate goal is…but wait, first he has to blame republicans.
Government is providing you a “choice” and guarantee that NOBODY gets in the way of the care you need. yeah Right.
No addition to the deficient. Is he for real?
WWWOOOOO HHHHOOO he was just called a liar! Pelosi is PISSED!!!
THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY.
THERE WILL BE NO PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP.
It’s clear that the most HEATED topic tonight was immigration. That clip will be replayed, and replayed.
NO member of Congress will want to touch amnesty for years.
Obama is the liar! The bill WILL cover illegal aliens! How DARE you call us liars, Mr. President! You screwed up, and lost all Americans with that quip. You have lost.
http://cis.org/Announcements/HealthCare-Immigration-Publications
Collins and Snow right on Que. NOT a DIME my Arse
Loser!
What a freakin’ whiner!
Riddle me this… Why must we change the entire system so a small percentage can get healthcare?
This Prompterbama guy is boring, but TOTUS looks mah-velous!
“Blame Bush” again.
UMPAH!!!!
Blame BUSH Blame BUSH…
never mind Dems had Congress 2007 and 2008 when deficit ballooned.
Why can’t we have a president and representatives that serve america rather than serve themselves?
I want my country back.
What did the sign in that guy’s lap say? The writing at the bottom of the screen covered it up… I hate that.
He keeps saying, “I will make sure…” He cannot “make sure” of anything. Who does he think he is? “I will make sure”??? That the…? Mr. President, please buzz off and take your intrusive healthcare crap with you. Get out of my face. Big Brother is not the answer and this monster must be stopped!!
Speak directly to seniors through your teleprompter!
If this healthcare thing is so good, Congress, Federal Employees and Unions should be the first to join!
Oh wait.. that’s right they’re all exempt!
This guy is such a loser!
Republicans stood and applauded when Pres Obama addressed spending without increased revenue, spending without knowing how to pay for it. Good for them.
Hawk said,
Yep. Like our failure to responsibly guard liberty… or is it our failure to defend the Constitution. or maybe for how we sit idly by while millions of children are murdered.
“Trust me me me me me me…”.
Those who bring up the facts about medicare and medicaid are using “Distortions” and “Demagoguery”.
Is this all he can do, denigrate the messengers?
I DID not have sex with that woman.God how can you sleep when you lie??
O: “Not a dollar of the money that we have already spent will be spent on health care. We will just print more!”
Tall tales, eh?
Oh, dear! Chap and I have something in common. This is truly frightening.
I have a tingle up my leg.. wait maybe it’s a blood clot! I’m over 65, political hack in DC says I die!
It is exhausting to listen to this idiot lie about everyone else while tossing lies about as often as his head moves left to right.
Attack the opposition again and make hollow promises. “I will protect medicare”.
Switched over to the Style Channel, it’s Mullet Week.
Did I miss the poignant, katie couric lowered-voiced mention of Ted Kennedy?
Did Biden cry? At the appropriate time?
Wonder if he’s thought about a mullet for the next go-round of plugs?
Who could take this crap seriously?
Paid union members?
Chris Matthews must be tingling all the way up to his adams apple.
“Don’t listen to those people who have been trying to scare you with lies and distortions… and here are some lies and distortions for why you should listen to me me me me me me me…”
Now Obama is promising to “Protect Medicare”. Riiiight!! Does he really think people buy that crapola? Ugh…what a crapweasel.
Can someone explain why fraud has not and cannot be addressed now without revamping the whole insurance system?
Funny…he didn’t mention the subsidies for his Union friends.
Well this duck is cooked. Half the congess ain’t standing for him now. So that tells ya they are going to do it anyway. This is Bu%%%Sheese period
Don’t forget about our mutual love of lutefisk.
repubs liked that one!
Way to go Republicans….tort reform needed.
o: “Hello,” he lied.
and I will put my team of lawyers to work on testing these ideas…
So it’s insurance exchamge now not single payer? K got it!
Med Mal reform IS A CANARD!!!!
It has not worked in Texas and will not do a thing to significantly lower health care costs.
I say throw it in just to shut up the right.
Obama has been laughed at a couple times. And not in a good way. He has said some really stupid, laughable things. Great sound bites that we will be hearing on FOX, but nowhere else.
The wealthy are evil, I tell you. EVIL!
Rep Cantor (R) looks like he wants to move to the other side of the ailse.
It will be paid for with already being spent badly?
Does that mean the stimulus money will now be moved over the healthcare?!?
That should read:
” with money already being spent badly?”
Rush gave his good ideas six months ago
Middle class will not see higher taxes and it will reduce the deficit. HA. He is truly joking…no wait, I think that is called lying.
CREEPY LIAR !!!!
I am watching (for a few moments) with the sound off, trying to determine the Morse Code of Nancy Pelosi’s blinking.
Nancy looks more worried than ususal as head cheerleader (looks like Hillary got the memo to wear red,too?
Joe looks as if he doesn’t quite know where he is, and is compoising a story about his years on Scranton, or the train he takes, to the press.
I really messed that up…
Let me start over…
“It will be paid for with money already being spent badly?
Does that mean the stimulus money will now be moved over to healthcare?!?
I wish I were wealthy. Too bad Obama and his elitist thugs are changing things to make it impossible for me to become wealthy.
we are calling you out bozo!
Exactly!! He keeps saying..I this and I that. Like he is personally responsible to see that stuff happens. That is just plain nuts.
How will the defecit grow if they do nothing, but will not grow if they offer freen health care?
I, Obama, am not counting on you to succeed.
I am counting on Americans to succeed.
No More Mr Magic…..The jig is up!!!
I just went back and looked at the “liar” shout… we gotta find out who that was and give them a medal or something.
Right on cue blame bush time
Here comes the inevitable reference to Ted Kennedy. Here it comes…
“I promise you that this will not add a dime of additional cost to health care.”
From an old SNL skit “The 50-Foot-Tall President” of the 1970s”
Someone needs to ask Obama if the bill will add more than a dime of new debt to the budget.
OK, that’s enough BS for me. It sounds like he is recapping the same BS and now pulling the heart strings.
Is Biden crying for just hung over?
Lindsay, Joe does look a little lost doesn’t he?
I think he is hypnotized by Obama’s left/right head swinging.
This is sad he just drew the line and made 1 or 2 types of americans.
He just told them if they criticized or “misrepresented” what he says, they will be called out. Is he going to make members of Congress sit in the corner?
OMG It’s the Kennedy Drag the body in time!!!!..Where’s that Death Panel when you need it!!!???
Self-reliance?
Love of freedom?
This man has no shame.
Ted Kennedy is not the best one to bring up on this subject. Teddy sure didn’t take care of MaryJo
There’s old dead Teddy.
What the heck does Obama know about respecting freedom and liberty?
All he knows about is taking freedoms away in the name of “social justice”.
Nice, they trotted out Kennedy’s widow, or the future Mrs Senator of MA.
She’s got the lip-biting action down, must be thinking about the children….oh those children………….
Call Hollywood, the next Meryl is right here- bite me!
Tugging on the heart strings.
I can’t wait to see the poll numbers tomorrow. It still hasn’t registered to Barry and his crowd that those of us who got him into this pickle can’t be snowed. It’s not talk radio. It’s the internet.
Who exactly is this speech intended for anyway? Our mothers? To make them tell us to put away our computers?
(Oh God, there’s McCain again… that REALLY helps your case Barry.)
Thanks to all of you brave souls who are watching this and blogging so I can just enjoy the comments and not lose my lunch.
O: “When facts and reason are thrown overboard…”
Like maybe right now!
Obama….
please take notes…
YOU ARE NOT REAGAN…stop trying to sound like him after lying for the last 30 minutes
No One trusts you phony—–By Gawd it’s fire and brimstone time!!!!
Just another Dem trick…pull those heart strings.
They still think Americans are that naive.