Many thanks for your response to my query about sources for the stats on the financial impact of lawsuits. The proliferation of conflicting percentages suggests that there are a lot of different, and politically convenient, ways to select and interpret the data for such calculations. I’ve been hoping to be able to closer look and appreciate the links.

Sorry but a few angry white mobs in a country of 300 million does not speak for us all. They are just the few the news likes to show because it helps ratings. These people are just people desperate to be on camera to show their displeasure of losing to a black man. They need to come to terms with being in the minority and being impotent. I pity these angry white hate mobs.

dcwvu on August 16, 2009 at 11:53 AM

Excellent summary of Obama’s argument. And thanks for helping to usher in the great Obama-post-racial era!

It’s astonishing. We have the Speaker of the House falsely associating opponents of ObamaCare with neo-nazis and the Majority Leader of the senate claim these opponents are disrupting democracy…all while union thugs are being called in to ensure politicians aren’t asked tough questions by their constituents and the Whitehouse asking it’s supporters to report on these opponents.

So far the left has ascribed these motives to ObamaCare opponents:
(1) Racist
(2) Terrorists
(3) Astroturfers/Shadowy corporate operators
There is no effort to engage on the ideas or the policy. It’s all name calling and vilification.
And all this when the party is lead by a community organizer – the job description of which is near as I can tell is to agitate people.

Citizens and constituents are being vilified for exercising their freedom to speak and seek redress of grievances. Doctors have been vilified (they’ll take out your tonsils!)

When Obama loses the election on 2012 you’ll just chalk it up to racism but deep down you’ll know it’s because whenever most Americans see liberalism displayed they reject it.

If we maintain the status quo, we will continue to see 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day.

My favorite soundbyte hands down. Where’d this number come from, and what’s the other half of the stat? Does it include people who die or change jobs?

Obama on August 6th, to a cheering ‘mob’: “I don’t mind cleaning up their mess, but I don’t want them talkin’.”

LIAR.

How many heads are going to explode when this health reform bill gets passed? Where am I going to go to get a few laughs from Keyboard Conservatives?

Nationalizing health care isn’t about politics.

TugboatPhil on August 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM

Nationalizing health care isn’t about politics.

Counting illegals , using ACORN in 2010 census is not about politics

By picking a Republican, Obama would have been able to stay above the fray and even if he didn’t get entirely what he wanted, he would’ve gotten at least a good portion of it. (Any good politician would have taken what was offered knowing that anything run by the government will eventually be expanded).

Picking a Republican would have given him and the Democrats the cover they needed. Obama would then have been able to say, “I didn’t want the government running healthcare, but this fine gentleman, a Republican I trust, has made his decision so I will have to live by it.”

Obama delegated the entire ObamaCare issue to an idiot–himself so he only has himself to blame. (Sebellius is only there to repeat what he’s been told.)

In the coming weeks, the cynics and the naysayers will continue to exploit fear and concerns for political gain. But for all the scare tactics out there, what’s truly scary — truly risky — is the prospect of doing nothing.

How to make a Straw Man Argument.
1. Build a strawman or two: cynics and naysayers. Don’t worry about defining who these people are, that doesn’t matter.
2. Define the strawman’s tactics: exploit fear for political gain.
3. Establish the strawman’s goal: doing nothing.
4. Become The One by knocking the Strawman down and save the day.
5. Again, don’t worry about specifics or the fact that you are utilizing fear for political gain yourself. The members of your cult won’t bother to connect those dots.
6. Repeat as necessary.

If we maintain the status quo, we will continue to see 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day.

Where exactly did he get this figure from? Is there a credible study/report that can confirm this?

That is not a future I want for my children, or for yours. And that is not a future I want for the United States of America.

When 66% of independents want you to keep YOUR (Obama) hands off health care it fair to assume that what you want is not is not what the American people want.

Our deficit will continue to grow.

Our deficit will continue to grow regardless if this bill is passed or not.

And insurance companies will continue to profit by discriminating against sick people.

Ah, so true cuz there is no profit in receiving premiums from healthy people.

What planet does this guy live on?

If we maintain the status quo, we will continue to see 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day.

And how many of those 14,000 Americans will lose their insurance due to the fact they die of natural causes?

I’m fairly certain when someone passes away they lose their health insurance.

Racism is the last refuge of the scoundrel when losing an arguement. You have found your refuge.

ICBM

Except when the scoundrel is a liberal….then it’s the first, last, and middle.