The smart thing to do would be to hold off health care until his second term and focus on reducing the U.S. presence in Iraq and paying down the deficit.
The more economically secure the country feels and the less overextended overseas, the more inclined it’d be to address expensive domestic priorities

Allahpundit, this looks like your not against Goverment health care, in fact, it looks as though you are wistfully giving Obama advice in hopes to further the “Hillary care” agenda.

If so, give me one instance, one country, where it is working.

Spend, spend, spend. Public anxiety about red ink — muted during this winter’s debate over an economic stimulus package — has come roaring back, with a Gallup Poll showing deficits and spending as the only issues where more people disapprove……

Before the year ends, the economy will be stimulated, healthcare will be reformed, there will be peace in the middle east and agreements with Iran. It can’t be any other way.

For Sore Throats: Dial Barney Frank

For Hip Replacement: Dial Pelosi

For Mental Illness: Dial VP Biden

For Group Flu Shots: Dial ACORN

Please note: If this is your 2nd call this year, contact your local funeral director…

MYOB Barack.

Are his charisma and powers of persuasion so vastly greater than Clinton’s that he can make up for the gap in popular support here?

Well, yes. That’s why all those flies invaded the White House. They’re attracted to hot air and sh*t.

Seems to me, Barry needs to “spend more time with his family” and that puppy needs to be potty trained. That’s more Barry’s speed.

NoDonkey on June 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM

In all honesty and seriousness, does it really seem to you like the filty liar in the White House has a family?

When it comes to photo-ops they look like the perfect family but I have never gotten a vibe that this is a family. GWB and Laura Bush had a chemistry that was evident. When I look at the Obama’s I simply see two radical racist activists playing roles with no real love between them. The kids were probably the result of a strategy to make the filthy liar more likeable.

I used to think Obama would be unbeatable in 2012. Now I think he’s going to be one very vulnerable dude.

ddrintn on June 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM

At this rate, this corrupt and incompetent Bed Crapper will be lucky to make it to 2012.

Seems to me, Barry needs to “spend more time with his family” and that puppy needs to be potty trained. That’s more Barry’s speed.

I used to think Obama would be unbeatable in 2012. Now I think he’s going to be one very vulnerable
dude.

ddrintn on June 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM

Much like JFK. People forget that he was in Dallas in November 1963 because he was in political trouble. He was specifically to bolster support among Southerners and having LBJ along was a necessary part of the equation since his audience was going to be outright hostile without such tacit support.

JFK’s foreign policy was a nightmare- Bay of Pigs was less of an anamoly than the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis (and this was before we knew how he embroiled us in the Vietnam War). JFK’s nazi-like tactics at integration in the South had alienated his base of Southern Democrats. The shine was definitely off Camelot by the time of JFK’s assassination. Had he lived, JFK would not have had the legendary mythology that has resulted in the Kennedy cult following (about extinguished) that has caused the nation to suffer decades of Teddy Kennedy’s corruption despite the fact the drunken bastard killed a woman.

IMO, Obama is going to be a one-term loser with a trail of corruption behind his administration.

Health care needs tort reform and then it will be just fine the way it is.

tarpon on June 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM

+1

AND, fix what’s already broken in the existing socialized systems (Medicare and Medicaid). They have a drawing board to which to return. They don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Since when does a dictator care about public opinion polls?

angryed on June 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM

Obama, like Clinton, lives by opinion polls.

I am not so sure there will be a second term. Obama might feel the same way.

Terrye on June 18, 2009 at 8:08 PM

I used to think Obama would be unbeatable in 2012. Now I think he’s going to be one very vulnerable dude.

He’s got the Minus Touch – everything he touches, turn to crapola.

True, but the cost in lives and human misery makes that a poor trade. If they get this done it can not avoid heath care rationing, and the resulting carnage that is sure to follow. I hope someone, maybe the GOP, is preparing to keep track of all that and make sure it is directly laid at Obama’s feet.

If they socialize medicine and it is an abysmal failure (which of course it will be), they will be blamed for it and republicans will hold congress for the next 50 years.
pullingmyhairout on June 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM

Good point. Entire communities will experience economic collapse if the health care system no longer relies on the free-market.

Hospitals, clinics,labs,doctors offices, imaging centers pharmacies, physical therapy businesses–all will have to change their business model away from the free market. Every single person who is employed by these organizations will suffer terrible losses to wages and it will be disastrous.

That is why I am terrified of this “reform”.