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*Excerpts of Obama's Speech for Tonight Released*
Breaking News Online ^ | September 9, 2009 | BNO.com

Posted on 09/09/2009 2:51:05 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

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1 posted on 09/09/2009 2:51:06 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve

Just the excerpts are too long.


2 posted on 09/09/2009 2:53:52 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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"It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform."

Good point. I'll bet there were thousands of people who died back then 'cause they couldn't afford an MRI.

3 posted on 09/09/2009 2:53:58 PM PDT by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result. We know these things to be true.

Scaremongering. Demagoguery. Pure and simple.

4 posted on 09/09/2009 2:54:17 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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"First, if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."

Uh, nothing in the plan requires these changes... The plan will just CAUSE you to lose coverages and access to your doctors.

Here's a picture... "We're going to put a $1,000 dollar per pack tax on cigarettes. But don't worry smokers! Nothing in this new tax will require you to stop smoking.

He thinks we're stupid and can't read... or put 2 and 2 together.

5 posted on 09/09/2009 2:56:23 PM PDT by freestyle
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To: Beaten Valve

If he hasn’t talked to Republicas on this matter since April, he cannot claim bipaetisaship. And gag me on the special interests statement. He’s sickening. There’s no more detail here, just the sos. Show me $$$


6 posted on 09/09/2009 2:56:48 PM PDT by SueRae
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“Over a century” since Teddy Roodevelt suggested this, and alsmost 250 years since we were founded, and as you know the country ground to a halt and collapsed as a result of no government health care - NOT.

Somehow we built the greatest healthcare system on Earth, but why let that stop us when we can now screw the whole thing up.


7 posted on 09/09/2009 2:57:16 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I think the Mayan doomsday prophecy program on the History Channel opposite this dribble will be more uplifting.


8 posted on 09/09/2009 2:57:25 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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“...I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last...”

Very poor choice of words.


9 posted on 09/09/2009 2:57:28 PM PDT by Califelephant
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He misses an very important part. There is NO reason you can only buy health insurance within your state or county. You should be able to shop for it nationwide. That is a huge part of the problem. If he wants to fix anything, fix that and also TORT REFORM!


10 posted on 09/09/2009 2:58:46 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: Beaten Valve
- Our collective failure to meet this challenge – year after year, decade after decade – has led us to a breaking point.

Crapping on America - that’s a surprise! /s

11 posted on 09/09/2009 2:59:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (To meet decent people these days you have to create them.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Same old lies. Same old platitudes. All dim bills will add a trillion dollars (and more) to the deficit. His 28th speech says exactly what his first speech on health care said. Nothing changes.


12 posted on 09/09/2009 2:59:40 PM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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But know this: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it. I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.

A new commandment has been given: Thou shalt not speak against Obamacare!!!

13 posted on 09/09/2009 3:00:01 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Beaten Valve

Missing from this: any mention of the MANDATE on individuals to purchase health insurance, and the FINE if they don’t.


14 posted on 09/09/2009 3:00:27 PM PDT by Califelephant
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If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.

Ooooooooooh. Scary.

I wonder if it ever occurs to him that he's been guilty of plenty of misrepresentation. Probably not.

15 posted on 09/09/2009 3:01:08 PM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: Califelephant

I hope he’s the last. It was a bad idea from the get-go.
Things haven’t changed much but for the number of hands
held out for a cut of the action.


16 posted on 09/09/2009 3:01:50 PM PDT by jusduat (probably lost)
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partisan spectacle that only hardens the disdain many Americans have toward their own government...

That just makes me physically ill.

Wait, it's all falling together: Make the leftists euphoric and make the majority dissenter population physically ill! No more dissent!

17 posted on 09/09/2009 3:02:21 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Beaten Valve

Who is giving the rebuttal? Is there a rebuttal? and if so it better be a good one and goes arrow by arrow. None of this lets all get along shipolla.


18 posted on 09/09/2009 3:02:23 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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“because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they get sick ....”

Generally I believe that is a worthwhile goal, but you have to remember President Obama will not let you buy a catastrophic illness policy. He wants to apend teh money on soup to nuts preventive care and then ration resources when you need them most.

You won’t be ALLOWED to go broke to save yourself at that point, you will just die.


19 posted on 09/09/2009 3:02:32 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Beaten Valve

where’s the part where he says, “you are getting very sleeeeeeepy....”


20 posted on 09/09/2009 3:02:44 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (hang the Czars.)
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