Obama Decries Divisive Rhetoric, Says Healing Can Happen if Opponents Stop Being Such Effing D-bags

Reason ^ | 31 jan 10 | Nick Gillespie

[rellimpank]

President Barack Obama was in Florida yesterday, talking up his bullet-train-to-the-future initiative. He's now calling for good feelings all around:

"Nothing that human beings do will be perfect," Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, said as he capped a town hall at the University of Tampa, where he was received with boisterous support.

"But we shouldn't sort of assume that the other side is either heartless or doesn't care about sick people or is some socialist/communist who's trying to take over the health care system," the president said. "We start getting into these caricatures. They're so damaging."

[sodpoodle]

“We start getting into these caricatures. They’re so damaging.”

BECAUSE THEY ARE SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!

[mplsconservative]

More amusing ‘rhetoric’ from the Teleprompter in Chief. I guess David Plouffe is president now that he is the one feeding 0bama flowery words.

[Eddie01]

Ridicule Ridicule Ridicule the Marxist D-Bag

FUBO

[Always A Marine]

"But we shouldn't sort of assume that the other side is either heartless or doesn't care about sick people or is some socialist/communist who's trying to take over the health care system," the president said. "We start getting into these caricatures. They're so damaging."

Right on, Comrade!

[OpusatFR]

Is Obama stuck in some high school somewhere in time?

Lead man, cut whining!

Do you think the leaders of the past cared what someone said about them or wrote or even drew?

~Not up to the job. ~Not capable of doing it. ~Not even when the entire government is in your majority.

[dennisw]

0bongo the great Kenyan philosphizer ...sent to deliver the crude white racist beings of the United States and after that the world. Hail Lord 0bongo! Delivering us from hunger and strife not to mention global warming which is killing our penguins, polar bears and delta smelts and melting our Himalayan glaciers

[lacrew]

Harry, quit calling me on on negro.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Obama says we can all get along...if folks stop resisting his takeover of the world.

In other news, Obama declares we can all think alike...if we just give up our opinions and accept his.

[omega4179]

some socialist/communist who’s trying to take over the health care system,” the president said. “We start getting into these caricatures. They’re so damaging.”

Thanks for letting us know the first 365 days of resistance are taking their toll, 0. You may resign anytime.

[70th Division]

There is no proof that he did anything higher than high school. I have never seen someone more arrogant than Obama. OK Michelle

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Is Obama stuck in some high school somewhere in time?”

No, stuck in Columbia University, still trying to overthrow the capitalist system.

[Canedawg]

Is Plouffe officially on board yet?

This is an interesting change of tactics, directly confronting the assertions that he is “socialist, communist, Bolshevik”.

[dennisw]

Is Obama stuck in some high school somewhere in time?

Did you hear this clown's soaring rhetoric when he was invited to speak to the Republicans at their retreat?

.. if you were to listen to the debate and, frankly, how some of you went after this bill, you'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot. No, I mean, that's how you guys, that's how you guys presented it.

And so I'm thinking to myself, well, how is it that a plan that is pretty centrist -- no, look, I mean, I'm just saying, I know you guys disagree, but if you look at the facts. If you look at the facts of this bill, most independent observers would say this is actually what many Republicans -- is similar to what many Republicans proposed to Bill Clinton when he was doing his debate on health care.

So all I'm saying is, we've got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality. ... if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys then don't have a lot of room to negotiate with me.

I mean, the fact of the matter is, is that many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable in your own base, in your own party. You've given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you've been telling your constituents is, this guy is doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.

And I would just say that we have to think about tone. ... This is part of what's happened in our politics, where we demonize the other side so much that when it comes to actually getting things done, it becomes tough to do.

[MuttTheHoople]

So the Prom Queen doesn’t want any name-calling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[dennisw]

0bongo—— “I am not a Bolshevik”

[Doc Savage]

I have to agree with his Heinous POS! He may be a F***7%42+ scum bag, but he’s still the leader of the @@#&%^*)++$ world, even if he is dumber than a goat’s &^%$*&@@!

[beefree]

“we shouldn’t assume that the other side is socialist/communist”

That is true. It’s not the other side that is socialist/communist, it is his own side.

[Tahoe3002]

Excellent.....maybe bho was not using the ‘negro dialect’ as harry reid claims?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Just think about this speech if it was given by a Republican.

“Republican President Denies They’re Trying to Kill People”, “Republican President Says Old People May Have Right to Health Care”.

Meanwhile this President is out there denying, or HA HA trying to, he’s a Marxist Leninist and he really doesn’t want to take over every aspect of your life and the economy. Sorry pResident Zero; looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and the Communist Party USA endorses it?

It’s a duck.