Comments on: Video: Americans have to “stop clinging” to their health care policies

By: Among Soldiers Petraeus is god « Free Market Military

Among Soldiers Petraeus is god « Free Market Military — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:38:16 +0000

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By: VekTor

VekTor — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:02:28 +0000

Of course, Obama’s not moving into his “future” system. FreakyBoy on July 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM

I'm reminded of the following exchange from "Serenity": The Operative: I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin. Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world? The Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done. (Of course, the one incongruity in the comparison is the notion of O actually believing in something greater than himself. If you can get past that, I think it's a rather eerie match.)

By: ObamaCare Roundup and LinkFest « The Climate Heretic

ObamaCare Roundup and LinkFest « The Climate Heretic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:58:28 +0000

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By: bluegrass

bluegrass — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:17:35 +0000

What Americans don’t need to cling to is a president that doesn’t know his A$$ from a hole in the ground. Thats what American needs to stop clinging to.

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:08:21 +0000

Maybe tomorrow night if the media will start throwing hardball questions.

farright on July 21, 2009

They are the Obama-fellating, state-run media for a reason. Don’t expect any serious questions from any but a token few…maybe one.

By: Here we go again — Bitter and Clingy Part II | Political Byline

Here we go again — Bitter and Clingy Part II | Political Byline — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:58:30 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey, who is much more refined that me, sums it up nicely as well: Remember when Obama scoffed at the notion that he was an elitist during the campaign? I wrote at the time that Obama was deliberately confusing “elites” and “elitism”, and that having a sitting US Senator attempting to deny his elite status was a little odd anyway. This is a perfect display of elitism — someone telling people that they don’t know how to calculate their own self-interest and declaring that a few people in Washington can figure that out for them better than they can themselves. It’s patronizing, condescending, and in fact is the very kind of attitude that created the impulse for our separation from the paternalistic monarchy that refused to allow for the notion that the colonies should have a say in their own governance. [...]

By: Obama: Americans Need to Stop Clinging to Old Healthcare Policy : Stop The ACLU

Obama: Americans Need to Stop Clinging to Old Healthcare Policy : Stop The ACLU — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:21:07 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey: This is a perfect display of elitism — someone telling people that they don’t know how to calculate their own self-interest and declaring that a few people in Washington can figure that out for them better than they can themselves. It’s patronizing, condescending, and in fact is the very kind of attitude that created the impulse for our separation from the paternalistic monarchy that refused to allow for the notion that the colonies should have a say in their own governance. You begin to get the idea that, underneath all his efforts to talk to people like adults, he thinks there are really just two camps: Courageous progressives, e.g. himself and people who agree with him, and backward bumpkins who huddle around failure because they’re too afraid to be more like…him. [...]

By: noworldcitizen

noworldcitizen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:02:01 +0000

This SOB is younger than me, and I am sick and tired of hearing him talk down to me like I’m his four-year-old step child. What an arrogant piece of crap!

By: leftnomore

leftnomore — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:56:22 +0000

It’s not the arrows, its the Indian. :-)

Dave R. on July 21, 2009 at 3:36 PM

HA!! I’ma gunna steal that one.

By: Jay Mac

Jay Mac — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:56:19 +0000

I still don’t know how he can go around talking about his plan without every single person he meets demanding to know why he wants to foist Obamacare on them when he’s already admitted he wouldn’t use it himself.

Oh, and isn’t Congress exempting themselves from it to? They get to keep their elite medical care while pushing this monstrosity onto the rest of America.

Good job your watchdog press is on the ball, eh?

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:36:16 +0000

Jed_Eckert on July 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM

Oh He has Jed, He has. Twice!

Bless you too.

By: uncivilized

uncivilized — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:18:36 +0000

Mommypundit on July 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM

The first time I heard Rush do this, I must have missed the explanation because I thought there was something wrong with my radio – I unplugged it, plugged it in again, fiddled with the antenna. Then I got it, and I laughed until I couldn’t stand up anymore.

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:49:44 +0000

It’s also arrogant, elitist and false.

You’ve summed up Barack Obama very succinctly.

By: Jed_Eckert

Jed_Eckert — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:14:45 +0000

Lily on July 21, 2009 at 5:41 PM

God bless you.

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:44:22 +0000

addendum to above…

This happens to be the exact opposite of the attitude of most of our Founding Fathers, who saw self-reliance and religion as primary and government as a necessary evil to help protect a man’s right to practice them.

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:42:17 +0000

His first comment still blows my mind.

It comes from the perspective that government is the de facto source of happiness, contentment and purpose for all of humanity and that only when government fails to take care of people do they “cling to” self-reliance and religion.

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:41:14 +0000

Pg 354 Sec 1177 – Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs ppl! WTF. My sis has down syndrome!!

I have two kids who were born with diaphragmatic hernias. Immediately after birth, they needed surgery to move the internal organs from their chest cavities to their abdomens where they belong. We were told that our daughter had a 80% chance of living through surgery and a 20% chance of living a week after that.

18 years later she was the salutatorian of her high school and is going to engineering school in the fall. The genetic counselors told us there is more chance of being struck by lightning than having another child with the same thing. 4 years later when her brother “Sparkey” was born we were told he had a 20% chance of living through surgery and 0% chance to live a week after that. He just graduated 8th grade and plans to be an engineer too.

What do you suppose the chances are either one of them would have been allowed to have those surgeries under Obamacare?
Anyone? Bueller?

By: patrick neid

patrick neid — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:22:48 +0000

I thought there was nothing about this bill that could still shock me. Your post was shocking.

JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 4:33 PM

This bill is clearly about a whole lot of issues that have nothing to do with Health care. Health care is just the vehicle. Some of these provisions are frightening.

By: Dave R.

Dave R. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:20:26 +0000

Mommypundit on July 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM

LOL-Its the only way I can tolerate listening to anything Obama says.

At normal speed, it’s torture most foul.

By: Sharke

Sharke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:08:26 +0000

In his frustration, he’s edging closer to saying something that won’t be able to be spun. It’s just a matter of time.

DFCtomm on July 21, 2009 at 3:50 PM

The whole damn wretched abomination is unspinabble, which perhaps accounts for the noticable reduction in libtard trollism on blogs like this recently.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:01:58 +0000

obama is just so full of himself.

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:00:16 +0000

I’ll stop clinging to my Bible, guns, health care, cars, and my own freaking hard earned money when El Presidente stops clinging to his tax cheats, wise Latina racists, forced abortion eugenicists, terrorists, and terror loving Marxist dictators.

Lily on July 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM

Well put

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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:40:44 +0000

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By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:37:19 +0000

damn… is it just me or has Obama been getting his a$$ slapped around lately? I think the tides are a-turnin

By: JiangxiDad

JiangxiDad — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:33:06 +0000

patrick neid on July 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM

I thought there was nothing about this bill that could still shock me. Your post was shocking.