Posted on 09/12/2013 12:07:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
D.C. United, a Major League Soccer team, is going to be helping to publicize Obamacare's new exchange. Wait, you may be asking — how can this be happening? Earlier this summer, the Obama administration, attempting to copy a Massachusetts campaign to use the Red Sox to publicize Romneycare, floated a plan to enlist the National Football League to raise awareness of the new health care exchanges. In response, Republican leaders sent a threatening letter to the NFL warning it to stay out. And, for good measure, it sent the same letter to all the other major leagues: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Professional Golf Association, and NASCAR.
Except (and I certainly didn't notice this at the time) the list of leagues the Republicans threatened does not include Major League Soccer — reflecting either the Republicans' failure to realize that Major League Soccer exists, or a principled refusal to recognize soccer as a legitimate sport. I didn't think it was possible to find a way to make Republicans hate soccer more than they already do, but it associating it with Obamacare may just do it.
Chait spells his last name wrong. The C is supposed to be an S and the A is supposed to be dropped.
What a dipstick.
LOL, you may be right. I do think Chait’s simply whining because that’s what he generally does.......
Absolutely cannot stand soccer or tennis. Love rugby, golf, track and real football. Monday night’s win by the Houston Texans over San Diego was doubly sweet as it did silence Chris Burman, albeit very late in the game.
A real genius.
Not enough commercial breaks for you?
Maybe they should keep changing the rules in order to make it easier to score? It would be the NFL thing to do.
Does this Chait guy actually get paid for writing this chit?
Take out the goalies. With the number of balls on net it would spike the scores to 5-4.
Except (and I certainly didn’t notice this at the time) the list of leagues the Republicans threatened does not include Major League Soccer
There is Major League Soccer?
Who knew.
More importantly, who cares...........
Ok, so you don’t watch soccer. That’s perfectly cool with me.
Soccer by itself is merely a game and as such is not objectionable. What is objectionable is its politicization. It is hoped by the leftists that “International Soccer” will replace the purely American sports of Baseball, Football and Basketball thus showing all that we Americans are tolerant, loving, peaceful and are now officially cosmopolitan. We will belong to the world. When soccer replaces the purely American sports of Football, Basketball and Baseball it will be but one more nail in the coffin of American exceptional-ism.
I saw a lot of Gladsden flags proudly flying at the recent US match against Mexico.
I love watching soccer, the beautiful game. Although I like American football, I have a very hard time watching 7 minutes of actual football play, played out in three long hours.
“Hockey and soccer are probably the most demanding sports in the world.”
Is there a “Soccerfights.com” website?
;^)
ObamaCare already is, many things.
One that it will become, is *NOT* “single payer.”
Rather, ObamaCare will establish GROUP HEALTH ‘INSURANCE COVERAGE’, setting aside for now, that ObamaCare will never provide EITHER group nor single, health care.
The GROUPS will be, those associations who arrange for special treatment - yes, that will be un-Constitutional, but one of the GROUPS will be the Congress, and another group will be the Judiciary, and another group will be the Executive, and ... so on for other government departments and administrations at both the federal and state levels, plus labor GROUPS, plus politically-correct GROUPS approved by the Race Hustlers, plus some select corporate GROUPS.
That leaves THE OTHER GROUP, in which the rest of us “fall” and will be immersed in a system of amazingly laborious paperwork ... and poverty of BOTH insurance ‘coverage’ AND actual, good health care service.
The other thing that ObamaCare is, that too many people keep missing, is that ObamaCare IS A MEANS TEST.
It is designed - that means testing - to “help” you with acquiring supplemental payments *to* your premium payments.
*BUT* YOU WILL FALL INTO THE TRAP, of having to comply with THE MEANS TEST, *REGARDLESS* of whether or not you seek supplements.
THE PURPOSE OF THE MEANS TEST, is for the government to acquire information about you, in order to pigeon hole ALL of your financial activities *REGARDLESS* of whether or not an actual financial transaction occurs.
The government - ObamaCare - seeks to know every penny you have and where it is.
That is the overall purpose of ObamaCare - to get at all of your assets and the value of them, to be estimated by the government ... agents.
(Gadsden, not gladsden)
Baseball and soccer, for example, started in the U.S. around the same time . . . one became an "international" (you use that term in a derogative fashion, for some reason) and the other did not. Suffice it to say, the reason is not "leftist vs. rightist."
One cannot be an Internationalist and a patriot at the same time, it is a logical contradiction. If one loves ones country beyond all others it is then impossible to love other countries in the same manner. That is the derogatory meaning I assigned to “International.” The soccer movement in the U. S. has largely been leftist. It is not merely economics or business, or “a market!”
I don't care for soccer, playing or watching. But it doesn't mean I hate, I simply just don't care for it.
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