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'This is our moment,' Obama says of health care reform
CNN Political Ticker ^ | November 7, 2009 | staff

Posted on 11/07/2009 11:17:12 AM PST by Baladas

Edited on 11/07/2009 11:22:51 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama Saturday said members of the House of Representatives face the chance of a lifetime as they consider legislation on health care reform.

In a meeting with the House Democratic leadership, the president said he told lawmakers "that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation.


(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; dictatorship; healthcare; obama; socialism
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Carpe diem for socialists, I guess. Wish I could deliver him back to Kenta.
1 posted on 11/07/2009 11:17:12 AM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

Dear President 0.

Get some new writers. We the people have heard you spout that trite childish slogan every day for two years. We don’t buy it anymore.


2 posted on 11/07/2009 11:20:08 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: Baladas

What a POS. Obama wants socialized healthcare as a monument to himself.


3 posted on 11/07/2009 11:21:11 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Baladas

What his rhetoric means is this is the moment for the communists to glorify zero in all his magnificence.....


4 posted on 11/07/2009 11:21:20 AM PST by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Baladas

Our Dear Reader has spoken.


5 posted on 11/07/2009 11:21:32 AM PST by Tarpon (To destroy the people's liberties, you poison their morals ...)
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To: MNJohnnie

Exactly. The whole “this is our moment” thing seems to come up constantly. Sheesh!


6 posted on 11/07/2009 11:22:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Baladas; AZ .44 MAG

No BO, you mean you want this to be your moment. Personally, I’d like to have a moment with you.


7 posted on 11/07/2009 11:24:01 AM PST by MrsLilac (Don't let your mind wander. It's too small to be let out on it's own.)
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To: Tarpon
Our Dear Reader has spoken.

I so laugh every time I read that phrase. What a perfectly apt description.

8 posted on 11/07/2009 11:25:19 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: MNJohnnie

We should use it to describe our so-called president — Our Dear Reader.


9 posted on 11/07/2009 11:28:25 AM PST by Tarpon (To destroy the people's liberties, you poison their morals ...)
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To: Baladas

Geez. You should read the comments under the story. Mindless ranting and raving about corporate robber barons, et cetera, et cetera. I don’t know if CNN carefully screens them all to reflect official opinion or if all the readers are self-selected leftys.

Following cable news and CSPAN so far today, its clear that the dem leadership along with Obama’s cheerleading, is trying to ignite a euphoric hysteria on the House floor that will carry all before it. Every little rules resolution and so forth, clearing the way to a floor vote is applauded and fist-pumped like they’d just landed on the moon. Anything to get the blue dogs to shut down their higher functions. This must be what happens to lemmings as they march closer and closer to the cliff edge.

Or kamikaze pilots just before their suicide mission.


10 posted on 11/07/2009 11:28:57 AM PST by sinanju
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To: Baladas

What do you mean ‘our’, Kenya-Man?


11 posted on 11/07/2009 11:31:02 AM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: sinanju

Just a bunch of traitors, nothing more to add to that.


12 posted on 11/07/2009 11:32:12 AM PST by Mouton
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To: Baladas

This is your moment to fail hopefully.


13 posted on 11/07/2009 11:33:03 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Baladas
I didnt think the body language was at all positive when they came out of that room.

Zero asking Dem's to sacrifice themselves in order to ensure the veneer of success of the leader of their party may not have gone over too well.

14 posted on 11/07/2009 11:35:30 AM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: Mouton

A lot more to add to that. A good many of said traitors are committing political hara-kiri. Have they actually been promised all manner of fabulous cash and prizes when they get drop-kicked from office in 2010 or are they somehow being brainwashed to take one for the team?


15 posted on 11/07/2009 11:36:52 AM PST by sinanju
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To: capydick

Most of the news channels only allow us to see the dem leaders waxing rapturous and euphoric and applauding themselves.


16 posted on 11/07/2009 11:38:09 AM PST by sinanju
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To: Baladas

Folks, I am so freaked out that I barely know what to think. This is going to give the government access to every part of our lives. It is also going to strip out every spare dime we have and make us subject to jail if we can’t come up with the money.

How did we get here? What can we do?


17 posted on 11/07/2009 11:38:26 AM PST by livius
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To: sinanju

Where is the comment section?

I am having a hard time finding them....


18 posted on 11/07/2009 11:39:17 AM PST by jcsjcm (American Patriot - follow the Constitution and in God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: Baladas

Serious flipping question: How is this bill even remotely Constitutional? Maybe legal for the various states, but federally, it seems obviously not.

General Welfare clause? Please, can those few words be extended out to mean ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING? Where does this end?!?!

ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!


19 posted on 11/07/2009 11:40:16 AM PST by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: jcsjcm

Actually I goofed, that was for a different linked story on the same site.

I guess I answered my own question with this:

“Comments are moderated by CNN, in accordance with the CNN Comment Policy, and may not appear on this blog until they have been reviewed and deemed appropriate for posting. Also, due to the volume of comments we receive, not all comments will be posted.”

You can only sign on to post comments now. I guess in a few hours CNN will have collected enough of the correct opinion to post.


20 posted on 11/07/2009 11:42:56 AM PST by sinanju
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To: Baladas

I have nothing but contempt for this kenyan marxist muslim bastard ( a real one).

FUBO


21 posted on 11/07/2009 11:42:56 AM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Baladas

They don’t have the votes. You can see it in 0 eyes, facial expressions and tone of voice. He’s pissed.


22 posted on 11/07/2009 11:44:57 AM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: capydick

I hope you’re right, that they’re not convinced that they’ll all be voted out of office no matter what they do. That’s a common tactic of the far left, to tell them they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t so that they’ll be obedient by doing exactly what they’re told to do.


23 posted on 11/07/2009 11:45:45 AM PST by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Baladas
This is the moment that the US Constitution gets officially burned and shredded.

This is war!

24 posted on 11/07/2009 11:46:04 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Baladas
"that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation."

A "once in a generation" opportunity in terms of advancing a radical agenda.....

.....Otherwise, it is nothing more than legislation.

They know their window is closing fast.

This "opportunity" is becoming a desperate quest.

25 posted on 11/07/2009 11:47:13 AM PST by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: Baladas

Who exactly is the “our” in “our moment”?


26 posted on 11/07/2009 11:48:12 AM PST by Eddie01 (Newt's an intellectual... midget)
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To: MrsLilac
No BO, you mean you want this to be your moment. Personally, I'd like to have a moment with you..

LOL. You'd be safe alone with him. You're not manly enough to be his type.

27 posted on 11/07/2009 11:55:55 AM PST by AZ .44 MAG (I'm Jim Thompson and I say our government is a joke and its current make up is the punch line.)
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To: agooga

My freedom is being taken away by this bill. I will no longer be able to choose my destiny as an American citizen. I will no longer be free from unlawful search and seizure and imprisonment.

This is slavery! Another ring in the chain that binds me to perpetual servitude to an unseen master is being forged and fastened to the many that have already come before.

This is slavery. My country is dying by degrees. And so many cheer it on as they welcome back a new kind of monarchy in America. We have come full circle.

But I will never surrender. What I will do if this abomination to freedom is implemented and enforced, I do not yet know. But I will NEVER give in to these creatures that think of themselves as my “master.”

Never.


28 posted on 11/07/2009 11:55:58 AM PST by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: P-Marlowe

If the SCOTUS upholds this unconstitutional BS,
then war is indeed a very real possibility.


29 posted on 11/07/2009 11:57:09 AM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Rome2000

I will go to war.

I mean it.


30 posted on 11/07/2009 12:03:39 PM PST by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: Aria
This is the moment the democrats vote themselves into political hell. They will pay dearly if they pass this government monstrosity.
31 posted on 11/07/2009 12:15:03 PM PST by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: Baladas

I think Steyn summarized it best yesterday, subbing for Rush. He said that the Dems are prepared to take away all your freedoms in two steps: Obamacare and GlobalWarmingcare.

The healthcare bill will take away all freedoms to do with your body (what you eat, what you drink, etc).

While the global warming bill will take away whatever freedoms are leftover (what you drive, what you live in, etc).

These people are commie pigs. And know exactly what they are doing.


32 posted on 11/07/2009 12:17:47 PM PST by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: P-Marlowe
This is war!

Yep, and the enemy has been clearly defined.
33 posted on 11/07/2009 12:20:54 PM PST by Dewey Revoltnow
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To: Baladas

His moment for what? The destruction of America?


34 posted on 11/07/2009 12:23:28 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

This is their moment to spend tax dollars on abortions. I think they hate babies.

Abortion is not “health care”!


35 posted on 11/07/2009 12:25:09 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Baladas
Hey dip sh** alleged president stay where you are going don't come back you are evil.
36 posted on 11/07/2009 12:27:59 PM PST by boomop1
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To: sinanju

I think you are correct!

My comment is still awaiting approval - which I doubt will be approved. Oh well, I tried!


37 posted on 11/07/2009 12:28:51 PM PST by jcsjcm (American Patriot - follow the Constitution and in God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: Dewey Revoltnow
Yep, and the enemy has been clearly defined.

Yep!

Remember the 3 boxes -
The ballot box, which ACORN has stolen;
The soap box, which the left and MSM are ignoring
and the Cartridge box (which they can't ignore)

I profess that there's a fourth box, that sits neatly between the soap box and the cartridge box, called the cash box. And I hope that y'all are up to the task of using it to shut this mess down. For once the cartridge box is invoked, there is no turning back. It will be enormously horrible.

38 posted on 11/07/2009 12:34:04 PM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: Baladas

It ain’t “our” moment, Mr. President, it’s you’re moment - you and the rest of the petty totalitarians in your party.


39 posted on 11/07/2009 12:50:28 PM PST by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: meyer

Read the bill.

The tax part of it alone is terrifying.

1. The fines.
2. The tax on “premium” heathcare (aka, regular healthcare)
3. Removal of CPI adjustments of tax brackets. If we get inflation, we will all be at the max tax bracket really fast.

Cato Institute figures that this is an additional 17% tax on most Americans. 17% f***ing percent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


40 posted on 11/07/2009 12:50:41 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: Baladas
'This is our moment,' Obama says of health care reform

Mr. President, You and your like will rue the day. There will be an accounting.

41 posted on 11/07/2009 12:56:35 PM PST by UpInArms (without failure there's no success only slavery)
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To: agooga
I will go to war. I mean it.

I am with you, my friend. ...I am with you.

42 posted on 11/07/2009 1:06:36 PM PST by Ranger Drew
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To: Baladas

This is our moment to institutionalize unemployment and therefore poverty by creating dependency of the populace in every way, in fact in the most intimate way. The government will take over your body.

(Meanwhile, the governing elite have their own health plan.)


43 posted on 11/07/2009 1:19:05 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Got jihad?)
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To: agooga
I will go to war.

You will lose like Koresch.

44 posted on 11/07/2009 1:22:13 PM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: Baladas

Why are the people voting on this bill allowed to be exempt from the very bill they voting on?

Doesn’t sound like fair representation of the people at all.


45 posted on 11/07/2009 1:25:10 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Baladas

It is the moment the communists have been waiting and planning for, and it is the culmination of Obama’s bastardly birthright.


46 posted on 11/07/2009 1:28:46 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Once-Ler

“You will lose like Koresch.”

Don’t you think I KNOW that?!?!


47 posted on 11/07/2009 1:35:25 PM PST by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: agooga

Good luck then


48 posted on 11/07/2009 2:01:26 PM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: Baladas

FUBO!

And your dam family too!


49 posted on 11/07/2009 2:09:20 PM PST by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: agooga

If it passes and there is no immediate challenge from the ussc, then in all probability, there will be war!

We tried the nice talk and walk, now it’s has to ratchet up or give it up, the choice is ours


50 posted on 11/07/2009 2:12:38 PM PST by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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