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Brokaw: Botched Obamacare Rollout A "Low Point" For Obama, "Inexplicable" (video)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/11/17/brokaw_botched_obamacare_rollout_a_low_point_for_obama_inexplicable.html ^ | Nov 17, 2013 | NBC

Posted on 11/17/2013 3:29:50 PM PST by i88schwartz

TOM BROKAW: Well, there have been several low points, but this is certainly a low point at a critical time, coming into the 2014 elections, and a lot of Democrats beginning to bail on the idea of Obamacare. What was striking to me about that statement, "We should have been aware." Advertise

I would think, given the importance of Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, eight months ago the president would have started every meeting with, "How are we doing? Is that going to be ready? That's going to be our big play for the second term," and demanding from Kathy Sebelius and other people who are involved in it that they were ready. And sending people over there to take a look at the rollout. That it suddenly landed the way that it did, in utter chaos, and it's not going to be an easy fix, is just inexplicable.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; barackobama; deathpanels; demagogicparty; memebuilding; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tombrokaw; zerocare
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To: Ben Hecks

“Oh how could have anybody expected this?” He is as big a liar as Obama, every bit of this has been predicted for years.


21 posted on 11/17/2013 3:58:43 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Inconceivable is someone who actually voted for a Harvard law grad turned community organizer...


22 posted on 11/17/2013 3:58:54 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: i88schwartz

I cannot except that those politicians ( that imply that they represent us) actually entertain the notion that this plan can work at all........!!

They insult us!


23 posted on 11/17/2013 4:04:37 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: Col Frank Slade

That’s Racist!


24 posted on 11/17/2013 4:08:14 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

25 posted on 11/17/2013 4:18:33 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Col Frank Slade

And he doesn’t have a clue how things work in the real world. In his ivory tower world you simply tell people to do it and it magically gets done. No follow up, no management.

It became clear when he claimed that “you didn’t build that” when he was referring to the private sector and completely ignoring the fact that people in the private sector work their tails off.


26 posted on 11/17/2013 4:25:30 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Col Frank Slade

Yep, worse than Carter … far worse.


27 posted on 11/17/2013 4:29:20 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: i88schwartz

The updates, posted to 0bama’s IPad, looked real good


28 posted on 11/17/2013 4:29:28 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: dhs12345

YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP IT PERIOD.


29 posted on 11/17/2013 4:30:30 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: i88schwartz
Really struck me is that Brokaw refers to Sebelius as "Kathy".

Kathy Sebelius.

Inside-the-beltway-much:

30 posted on 11/17/2013 4:41:50 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. [Ludwig Von Mises])
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To: i88schwartz

Because Obama and Sibelius (”failure is not an option - just fix it”) are clueless when it comes to computer systems. Probably thought it was like knocking a couple of programs together in Basic for a PC.

The cluelessness becomes more and more obvious from the statements they have come out with after the “rollout.” “We’re finding out insurance is complicated.” Yep.

Would Obama know how to solve an equation? Doubt it.


31 posted on 11/17/2013 5:07:46 PM PST by BusterBear
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To: cripplecreek

That’s right there is a bumper sticker I want!


32 posted on 11/17/2013 5:08:11 PM PST by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: Col Frank Slade

The man has absolutely zero executive experience. He has never worked any any real job except Baskin Robbins. He has never run a business (or anything else). Why is this inexplicable. I think a better word is completely predictable.


33 posted on 11/17/2013 5:10:28 PM PST by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: bandleader
Q: Why does Obama have a glass navel?

A: So Tommy can see where he going!

34 posted on 11/17/2013 5:12:28 PM PST by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: i88schwartz

“We can’t keep covering for you at every turn and retain SOME credibility,... we’re in this to win it in 2016...”

Obamacare was one of those SNAFUs from the Obama administration that Americans are experiencing at every economic level and segment of society.

Nobody’s happy.

The Democrat talking point, “Critics are worried that people will LIKE it!” has fallen flat.


35 posted on 11/17/2013 5:16:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: BfloGuy
“Really struck me is that Brokaw refers to Sebelius as “Kathy”.
Kathy Sebelius.”

Good point. I feel little to no sense of representation by my government, but it's nice to know that there are those like Brokaw who are ‘plugged in’ and are on a first name basis with the politburo.

36 posted on 11/17/2013 5:18:10 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: i88schwartz

Gee Tommy, it is quite explicable. Every time communism is tried.


37 posted on 11/17/2013 6:18:54 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Exactly.


38 posted on 11/17/2013 7:31:38 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: i88schwartz
There are many, many things important to Americans. It just happens to be that Obamacare is the most politically visible. When people are lied to and they lose their insurance and have to pay 3 times what they were paying for less insurance, it is hard to ignore or spin away..

Obama has been ruling, arbitrarily and summarily against the best interests of Americans for the last 5 years. Brokaw is now only figuring it out? No way. He is not mad because Obama is inept, only mad because Obama is a discredit to his clan (progressive Marxist).

39 posted on 11/17/2013 7:57:44 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: i88schwartz

If he really was a President of the people, he would have been the first person signed up on the Healthcare.gov website.


40 posted on 11/17/2013 8:00:16 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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