Why Obama’s town-hall appearances won’t help
posted at 9:30 am on August 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The unexpected furor over the administration’s plans for revamping the nation’s health-care industry has forced Barack Obama to hit the campaign trail again. Obama plans to visit three town-hall meetings this week in order to lend his star quality to Democrats attempting to sell the plan to a hostile electorate. Given the President’s history with town-hall forums and the stakes involved, it’s not likely to help him much at all:
President Barack Obama, moving to counter noisy opposition to his health care overhaul proposal, will hold three public town hall meetings this week as his advisers push back against what they describe as false “scare tactics.”
Obama is scheduled to appear on Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H. at 1 p.m., at an event expected to draw roughly 1,800 participants. His goal this week, advisers said, is to address the concerns of people who already have health care and to illustrate how those people would benefit from adjustments to the current system.
Along the way, Obama will address specific health care topics — none of them new, but each important, advisers said. On Tuesday, he will talk about people who are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. On Friday, he will hold a town hall meeting in Bozeman, Mont., to discuss the plight of people dropped from their health insurance plans because of an illness. And at a third session on Saturday, in Grand Junction, Colo., Obama will raise the subject of high out-of-pocket costs, such as co-payments and deductibles.
First, anyone expecting a real town-hall forum to occur with Obama in attendance is deluding themselves. Even the press — even Helen Thomas — criticized Obama the last time he held a “town-hall meeting” on health care. Each of these three meetings will carefully screen attendees and get the questions in advance, to minimize embarrassment to Obama.
Beyond that, town-hall meetings won’t solve the problem of national rejection of ObamaCare. People want insurance reform, but they don’t want a government takeover of the system. The big problem is the legislation itself. If Obama wants to fix that, then he needs a meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, not the people of Bozeman and Portsmouth.
The legislators who have to hold town-hall meetings without Obama won’t get to use the Secret Service to screen attendees. They need to connect to their constituents in order to get re-elected in 2010, and their constituents are angry at an overspending, overreaching federal government that doesn’t know its place. Even if Obama could be in all of these and screen out the dissenters, they’d still be in the districts — and ready to replace ObamaCare-supporting Representatives next year.
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Hopefully some news outfits use this opportunity to replay Obama’s 2007 NH campaign appearence where he cleary stated he intends to implement single-payer healthcare by the end of his first term.
WashJeff on August 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM
The show begins at 1:00 PM Eastern today. I’m sure the state-run media will carry it.
Obama tends to botch high profile speaking engagements in one of two directions. Either he trivializes them by issuing droning, incomprehensible speeches (think of his European tour last year, the Greek Temple speech, and even his bizarre Inaugural speech).
Or else he chokes the message with extemporaneous quips, stupid but revealing statements about bringing a gun to a knife fight, calling policemen stupid, or, well just check the archives of Obamateurisms and you’ll get the idea.
Bottom line, can anyone give one example of a high-profile, must-win Obama appearance that he simply hit out of the park? No, you can’t. This is not Babe Ruth. It’s Mighty Casey at bat!
Popcorn, hotdogs, and beer. 1:00 PM eastern.
jeff_from_mpls on August 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM
From AP article today:
However, does anyone really believe someone will hold Obama’s feet to the fire?
Does anyone know where to get a live feed just in case it does happen?
VibrioCocci on August 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky Cambridge policemen. CROOOOOWLEEEEEEY!!!!! *shakes fist*
Pablo on August 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM
I always hated when protesters shouted at Bush. It looked immature and stupid. Is there something to be said for whether the president should get a different kind of treatment than congressmen? Will shouting him down for saying something stupid help the cause or make protesters look like fools?
Scranton on August 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Hey,why can’t we sneak in like the libs did at the s/palin rallys? …His mtgs. gag a maggot.
ohiobabe on August 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Continue trying to build the strawman that everyone is against reform and the ones that support it outnumber the ones who oppose it.
he’ll come out trying to look like the underdog when, actually, he’s the enforcer, the kneecapper, the COL Jessup.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM
AP just reported today that there was “supposed” to be a lottery.
Good ole state-run media.
VibrioCocci on August 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Obama at a “Town Hall”? What’s the point? Every one that he has had was staged and filled with campaign contributers and supporters. Another F-ing waste of time.
milwife88 on August 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Thats his career.
the_nile on August 11, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Town Hall Meeting posted Friday, registration closed 3 p.m. Saturday! Open Town Hall Meeting??
Pokeyarw on August 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM
In dire time extraordinary measures are required. Does anyone really believe that passive courtesy will have any impact on the behavior of this man?
rplat on August 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Kinda like the UK NHS healthcare lottery. It’s a big bucket of balls and you pick one–there’s two types– one that says LIVE, the other says DIE
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM
These protesters aren’t ‘shouting people down’ in any manner similar to the lefty morons during Bush’s terms.
They have genuine issues, and they aren’t going to allow these bastards to smugly dismiss them…hence the palpable anger and raised voices.
LimeyGeek on August 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Ed — No excuses for a lack of Obamamatuerisms this week!
Joe Caps on August 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM
At the NH Townhall, attendance is by invitation only….
Astroturfing?
PappaMac on August 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM
.. and it will be taxed due to the state budget crunch.
WashJeff on August 11, 2009 at 10:11 AM
“forced Obama to hit the campaign trail again”? AGAIN? Hell, he’s never left it. It’s all he knows, bloviation is his name. Babble, babble, platitude, platitude, babble babblebabblebabble ad nauseum.
bradley11 on August 11, 2009 at 10:13 AM
AGAIN: Attendees should be prepared to make signs that report what’s going on.
If e.g. they’re letting SEIUgoons in the back door, make signs on the spot reporting that fact.
“We weren’t allowed in”
“Closed shop: Union attendees only”
“Only union goons allowed in”
etc
So take blank signs and paint or markers and extra poster paper and report the news as it happens for the cameras -both the MSM cameras and the new media cameras. You could be on CBS -or better, HotAir- tonight.
Akzed on August 11, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Wanna have fun?
Step one: Get a few friends to show up at a townhall meeting.
Step two: Get some shirts from here:
http://seiu.imagepointe.com/mens.aspx
Step three: Stand silenting and hold anti-Obamacare signs
pearson on August 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Specter has committed to not supporting a bill that provides coverage to illegal aliens. He’s gotten criticism about the complexity of the bill–from a junior high teacher. A number are expressing distrust, and a guy just mentioned that Specter should sponsor a bill for term limits.
Specter’s a fool. So far, one lady has expressed vague support for health reform. He’s getting grief about access to bank account information currently in a House bill. He’s agreed to oppose it.
BuckeyeSam on August 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
If Obama lets in his supporters, there may be someone stupid, or smart enough, to ask him if he supports single payer. It is his supporters that want him to push single payer because He Won.
WashJeff on August 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Something tells me ALL these babble-halls Obama will be “attending” will be televised by the MSM, along with appropriately worshipful commentary by Keith Olbermann and his favorite guy, Rachel “Tolerette” Maddow.
bradley11 on August 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I keep hearing about “Obama’s” plan in the MSM, has anyone seen it? All I’ve seen and READ (unlike some Congress members) is HR3200.
GarandFan on August 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Wow…1,800 people? This will be either the most tightly screened Presidential appearance ever or one of the biggest public debacles in Obama’s
long history of off-the-cuff speaking debaclesshort career in the White House. I’m looking forward to it…2cents on August 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I thought some readers here might find it interesting to know about another government health care plan that I am dealing with just today.
My 90 year old father was hospitalized in March, suffering from a combination of a UTI, an inner ear infection and dehydration. At 90 he lives at home alone and as befits this old WWII veteran, he is fiercely proud of his independence.
He has medical coverage, as most folks his age, from Medicare and a private supplemental carrier. The combination of coverage normally gives him 100% coverage of medical expenses. That is when the Medicare bureaucrats don’t get too involved. Then neither insurer pays.
During his March medical issue, all the bills were submitted by providers to both insurance systems. And all were paid except for one bill, which recently became an issue with him since he got a notice from the hospital that his account was delinquent. If you have any of that general left in your family, you know they take those things very seriously, even if they don’t understand most of what all the billing mumbo-jumbo is saying.
So, he asked me to investigate and see what was needed. Turns out that someone in Medicare decided that his ride to hospital in an ambulance was not “medically necessary”. Now mind you, they didn’t meet him, didn’t ask him, and didn’t make any correlation between that decision and the facts that a 90 year old man who calls 911 because he is dizzy and can’t stand up, just might be smart enough to realize that he should not try to drive to the ER himself. So a clerk in some office decided that while all the treatment for his condition was medically necessary, getting to the hospital to receive that treatment was not.
Of course, I am told I can appeal the decision. I am, and I will not be surprised to find out they change their decision and pay the bill. And they will saw, “see, we are fair”. But they will again fail to grasp the unnecessary worry and fear that their stupidity imposes on the some of the most vulnerable citizens. I have to take steps to insulate my Dad now from these issues, and take some of his independence away to keep him from being worried by these idiots. I cannot explain this to him in any way that will not make him hesitate to call 911 next time he gets sick, because he’ll wonder if it is necessary.
And these people wonder why we don’t want them to have even more control of our health care systems.
MikeA on August 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM
BTW: Here is a good post from the “Hillary Snaps” Top Picks.
right2bright on August 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Are you suggesting that these town hall meetings might be filled with Obama shills?Shame on you for suggesting something like that from the most transparent adminstration evah.You must be one of those un-American,Swastika wearing mobsters I keep hearing about.I’ll bet you cling to your guns and Bibles,too.You’re probably one of those thugs who beat up and stomped on Steve Crowder.
Nazi.Facist.Tyrant.
DDT on August 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Some blogger could make a career for himself by recording these events, then scouring video images of the audience against other public appearances to see if you can spot the “regulars”, the operatives, Obama’s equivalent of Green Helmet Guy (bing it).
You’d think with hundreds of thousands of bloggers this would be easy.
Spot the paid hack, freeze him, isolate him, focus.
jeff_from_mpls on August 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Nice catch
pearson on August 11, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Hmmm… excellent observation.
“Get her outa here, she botched it for us last time.”
Maybe that’s why they made her SOS, so they could control her whereabouts. “Vely intalesting…” -Artie Johnson.
Akzed on August 11, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Lollers
LibTired on August 11, 2009 at 10:20 AM
I love HA readers! So many good ideas!
pearson on August 11, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Mike: God Bless you and your father.
This was a great example of how the government will “cut costs.” They won’t tell you that you can’t have something, they know that it’s something you need, then you submit/appeal for reimbursement or coverage, and you get denied after the fact. Most key medical decisions involving care and necessity are made PRIOR to the filing. Mike’s dad couldn’t obtain preapproval for an ambulance ride, he would’ve gotten sicker. The Obama administration knows this, which is why they say “You can keep your insurance” but what they won’t tell you is “Your insurance might not KEEP YOU” so it’s a two way street and Obama only tells half truths. I might be able to keep my wife, but if she wants to divorce me then I’ve still got problems right? Same same same
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Great. More phony Communist Party style town halls from Obama.
“Oh Dear Leader, tell me of your glorious plans for health care!”
WannabeAnglican on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Is anyone watching Specter’s Town Hall in PA right now? It’s on Fox.
And it’s not a Town Hall. It’s a Deli Counter!!!
“Who has the next ticket? Number 20? Number 20? Number 20?’
“Who’s got number 21?”
misslizzi on August 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM
And everyone’s ordering whoop-ass.
Pablo on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Muslim Rage Boy has been spotted at several town halls so far.
Akzed on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Thanks for that link.
Loxodonta on August 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Practicing for ObamaCare I presume.
WashJeff on August 11, 2009 at 10:25 AM
You forgot “I inherited this mess from Bush”
But seriously, folks. When he says all of this scary stuff isn’t in the bill he has never read, then that settles it. It isn’t in there, he said so.
darwin-t on August 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM
I have it on in the background. He’s getting grilled pretty good. Only one person has offered half-ass support for the health bills. He’s now getting grief on cap-and-tax.
BuckeyeSam on August 11, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Ogabe will release details after its been voted into law.
Bishop on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Its pretty simple, lies are only effective when people believe them, that ship has sailed, and credibility for anything else the President or the Democrats come up with is out the window too, so from now on, the more Obama talks, the more he’s just full of it.
I think on the campaign trail Barack convinced a lot of people they would get free health care, they just needed a reminder of how liberal government works.
Speakup on August 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM
uh oh lizzi! that’s the quote of the day right there girl!
that’s funny and i know funny and THAT’S FUNNY
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Wow, you guys are on today!!
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Somebody must ask him if he has read the house resolution. After all, he’s a lawyer and is theoretically skilled at reading, interrupting and understanding long, complex documents.
rplat on August 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM
True ‘dat.
Obama is much too much the wussy-by to ever go in front of a unscreened crowd and answer real questions from a person who is not under his control.
He just doesn’t have the guts. He is chicken!
That’s right! Chicken! Bwaaaak, bwak-bwak-bwak-bwak, BWAAAAAAAAK!
gridlock2 on August 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM
No he won’t. That’d be a distraction.
Besides, the super-duper important double secret thingies…that’s where the Obama’s control will come from.
coldwarrior on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM
These televised town halls are great, especially the more Obama and Specter and the like try to control them.
We’re getting more recorded evidence than ever of their methods of avoiding and/or lying directly to their constituents.
misslizzi on August 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM
I believe Obama specialized in shillin’ and shrillin’. Nothing of substance. Why he got such good grades and all that. He did release his transcript, didn’t he?
coldwarrior on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Sure, just get a lobotomy and a Obamessiah Tshirt
txdoc on August 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM
That’s “Obotomy” as coined by Michael Savage last week.
Brat on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM
My Dad is on his way to the “town hall” now. I have no idea how he got tix, but he will pay dearly for his support for the communist-in-chief, as will the rest of us that didn’t vote for the Precedent.
rslancer14 on August 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM
big easy native i presume?
cmsinaz on August 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Given Hillary’s meltdown yesterday, maybe 0bama should start blaming her for not getting HillaryCare passed and therefore he could say he “inherited this healthcare mess” from her. Would be a way to get her out as SOS which I believe will happen soon anyway.
Brat on August 11, 2009
Are you suggesting that Hillary should go shopping for a pantsuit that works well with tire marks?
SKYFOX on August 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Only 1800 inside, right.
Let’s hope NH is a rock concert outside.
NickelAndDime on August 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Would you please submit your resume to one of the GOP national conferences? You’re needed.
Loxodonta on August 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
If you believe that, then you’ve never worked with anyone who’s been hired under affirmative action. Details about their job performance–elusive, you’re a racist. Details about their failures–none, how could you ask that. Details about the things they’ve accomplished–hours and hours and hours of crap. Details about the benefits they want–they want a step level raise to GS 5, a $1000 bonus and a timeoff gift as well as every Friday off to take momma to town.
Affirmative actioners don’t provide details unless it’s sumdin dat dey want–all else is just details. get it
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Frankly I will be more interested in what happens outside the townhall today.
Protesters ready to deliver message at Obama town hall forum
Mutnodjmet on August 11, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Tee hee hee, nah that blueberry one she had on yesterday will be just fine. She’s a “re-tread” anyway just like most of 0bama’s administration, so she should be attired in worn out clothing for her bus-runover moment.
Brat on August 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM
ohh snap, no you di’int–
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM
That woman is keeping the polyester business going all by herself.
Jeff from WI on August 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Obama to the masses: “I won.”
Princeps on August 11, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Sounds like you’re talking about a specific line of work there. i.e. government.
misslizzi on August 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM
i didn’t know they made blue polyester tents that big that you could put a pair of arms and some buttons on….
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Oh lovely- he’s coming to Grand Junction. Man is he going to have to be selective here, because this county went 65-35 for McCain and it’s really conservative here. Maybe they will bus people across the state from Boulder to fill up the townhall. I’d love to go, but I have a pretty strong feeling that I will not be invited. Oh well, I’ll go stand outside and protest with the rest of the angry mobsters.
Warmongerer on August 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM
excellent!!!
cmsinaz on August 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM
I think that it is in the communist manifesto.
Johan Klaus on August 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM
where do you think affirmative action is the heaviest?
where do you see most of the effects of affirmative action?
–govmint
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM
where do you see more little birdies with their gaping mouths in the ear waiting for momma to bring them a worm…?
—govmint
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM
“That woman, Ms. Lewinsky”
Heh, funny she had a likin’ for blue also. Must be Billy Jeff’s fave color.
Brat on August 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM
ear, I meant AIR, not ear.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Did anyone else notice that Spincter did not even address or deny that guy’s accusations about stuffing his pockets full of lobbyist money?? That would have been the first thing I would have said. But then again, I am not stuffing my pockets full of lobbyist money.
bloggless on August 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM
no of course not arlen, at least not when you’re stuffing your pockets full of lobbyist money–or being a traitorous drama queen unworthy of the constituency you supposedly serve.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM
These twon halls are wastes of time. I just watched Specter’s and he didn’t answer anything. People ask questions and the idiots from Washington just reply in platitudes and lies, and then try and claim that they are “facing the constituents”.
In the end, these slugs are going to go back to Washington and pass this POS. This nation is sunk. ALl that is going to be left will be secession, because the traitors in Washington hate America and are determined to have the federal government take over everything in sight. There will be no stopping these slimeballs. All that is left is to part company and get as detached from those America-haters, as possible, because the America-haters will not be deterred from destroying themselves and everyone unlucky enough to be stuck with them.
progressoverpeace on August 11, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Uh let me guess. The NH town hall event will have BO with his US flag lapel pin. He will be wearing a red tie. Probably a flag or two surrounding the stage. And of course TOTUS for his initial brief statement.
The stage will also include 30 or 40 people in stadium seating behind him. There will be your token whites, a few blacks, and maybe an asian thrown in just for the cameras. They will be spaced perfectly to assemble a PC crowd. They will have those white signs with bold black block lettering saying “Thank you”.
The audience has been pre-screened and will be filled with friendlies. There will probably be a senior or a sympathetic HC provider with some hardluck story, that we later find out is a plant for some organization that will get a nice piece of gov’t dollars if passed.
He will answer questions that were already submitted where he can expound ever so elegantly on a bill he hasn’t read. Answers that will later be shown as a contradiction to what we already know about the bill.
The media will be astounded by his grasp for the “facts” and report how the debate is over.
Did I leave anything out?
jbh45 on August 11, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Let Obama speak, he’s the one killing this bill.
The President knows your doctor is running tests that she shouldn’t, doing surgeries she shouldn’t, using first-rate drugs when generics will do just as fine. The President knows grandma didn’t need a new knee, when painkillers would do her just as well. The President promises you won’t have all the care in the world, but what his commission allows you to have will be the “best” care. Look at how he runs GM. Look at how he runs TARP. That’s who’ll rein in your doctor.
Nobody interuppted this President with a puppet, or shouted him down. Everybody has heard him loud and clear –and that’s why they’re mad as hell!
Chris_Balsz on August 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Well, they did need a little time to cross reference the Whitehouse’s “flagged” list.
singer on August 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM
That’s the weak link in all these town halls.
The public is waaaay ahead in understanding (probably even reading) the bill.
And the poltiicians’ CANNED ANSWERS seem sooooo 2-weeks ago.
jeanneb on August 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Rasmussen reports Obamacare support at new low. Down 5 points in last two weeks to 37%. In another two weeks it’ll be 32% or lower. It continues in a single direction. downward….
that’s the ground truth there champ.
can you hear me now.?
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I hope Dear Leader continues his tone deaf theme. He is killing his own party. They are getting blasted by their constituents and he floats above it all.
d1carter on August 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Tsk. So many skeptics.
I’m sure these town hall meetings will be very bit as successful as the prime time health care press conference was.
tom on August 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I meant 42%, it’ll be at 37% in two weeks. I stand corrected.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Maybe. But at least the town halls are not turning out to be the successful propaganda platforms that these politicians want them to be.
These town halls are putting Obama’s, Specter’s, etc. hypocrisy on full display. And it’s wonderful that they’re being broadcast nationally.
misslizzi on August 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I’m just lookin’ forward to the beer we gonna get afterward.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM
yep, propaganda is a sword that cuts both ways.
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:13 AM
but the truth on the other hand, the truth is only one way…
ted c on August 11, 2009 at 11:16 AM
They should re branded it Ghoul Care.
Dr Evil on August 11, 2009 at 11:16 AM
BHO will be talking to a group of zombies who totally agree with whatever bs comes out his mouth today. no news there
la.rt.wngr on August 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Kudos to Fox for showing the Spector townhall. They did it to show these people are not a “mob” and that they actually know what they are talking about and are educated about the bill. It is much more effective without the shouting and yelling, but I understand why they sometimes feel they have to do that. Either they feel like they are not listened to or the congressperson lies in their answer, which they do a lot. Since a lot of the Obamabots are union thugs and they will be exempt from this bill, they don’t ask questions because they haven’t read it, don’t understand it, and don’t care. When they show up, they are there to make trouble.
silvernana on August 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM
I’ve got a better idea. Prime time live debate. One-on-one against Sen. DeMint for 90 minutes. No moderator other than a time-keeper. You both get to make an opening statement for 10 minutes and then for the remaining 70 minutes you ask and respond directly to each other’s points.
Got the guts for THAT champ?
PackerBronco on August 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM
I have a question I’d like asked of any proponent of Obamacare, one that gets to the heart of the whole “you’ll get to keep your own insurance” question.
Right now, I work full time and have good insurance coverage through the business I work for. However, I’m also a novelist, and one day, I’d like to be able to write full time rather than work a day job and try to write at the same time. But I’d have to get individual insurance before I could do that.
According to people who’ve read the legislation, I wouldn’t be able to purchase individual insurance from an insurer because they would no longer be able to offer new contracts once the proposed “health insurance reform” plan goes into action. Which means that I’m pretty much stuck with either continuing my current day job (assuming that my boss continues offering insurance under the new plan) or going with the government plan, right?
How is that anything but a severe limitation of my insurance (and employment) options?
bamaconservative on August 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Let me get this straight –
1) He is yet again on the road. My word, he has logged more miles than Charles Kuralt
2) The town hall is in a small New England town.
Jed_Eckert on August 11, 2009 at 11:42 AM
You never know. Obama might say something stupid again, which he seems to be doing more frequently these days, and the mask might slip even further.
OxyCon on August 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM
THEY WONT HELP SIMPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE A MANUFACTURED CROWD OF THE MARXIST OBAMA SUPPORTERS
rone5847 on August 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I find it amazing that the MSM has covered very little of this, but people are turning out in droves to protest about health care. Everyone seems to “know” about it and know that their representavtives are lying. It looks to me that most everyone has lost trust in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Seeing the President every day lying on TV no matter what channel you are watching makes you loose trust in the government forever. When you consider the the liars that surround him, this guy is toast. All this in 7-8 months. I have never seen this in my lifetime. I don’t remember things loosing traction this fast in recent past history. Even FDR. Even though the MSM isn’t doing it’s job, the word is out. It is encouraging.
BetseyRoss on August 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Strange choices of places for meeting people, in states with 1 (MT) , 2 (NH), and 7 (CO) House members, respectively. Wouldn’t most of the “47 million” people without health insurance be in more populous areas, rather than Big Sky country? Or is Obama afraid of meeting a gray-haired angry mob in a big city?
Steve Z on August 11, 2009 at 11:57 AM
This idiotic, egotistical piece of dog poo is the one who should stop talking. Stop talking moron, go into the White House with your piggie wife and close the door. Don’t come out for the rest of your horrible, disgusting, miserable, nasty term in office. I can’t stand to see or hear this demon. Barack Hussein Obama is the ABSOLUTE WORST thing to ever happen to America, including all wars and 911.
UnEasyRider on August 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM
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