Posted on 11/17/2014 2:34:24 PM PST by gwgn02
During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had “stolen” ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
“You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally,” Obama said. “People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.”
Despite Obama’s attempt to distance himself and his unpopular signature health care legislation from Gruber, it is clear that 2006 Obama never anticipated videos of his once-trusted adviser calling American voters ‘stupid’ would surface in 2014.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6yoHcOhF0U
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youtube collection of Gruber/Obamacare videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonathan+gruber+obamacare
Frontline (PBS) transcript (and video), Gruber says he first met Obama in 2006 at his Senate office to discuss healthcare BEFORE Obama announced his candidacy for President.
Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.
According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity to the to nth power.
Downrange, I guess all nose bridge shots, are the same.
“Jon Gruber, my dear friend.”
Not that it makes much difference but it appears that “my dear friend” is referring to someone named Jim Wallis (there is a semi-colon after Gruber’s name).
Goolsbee “While the private sector has added 2.2 million jobs over the past 16 months, this month’s report reflects the recent slowdown of economic growth due to headwinds faced in the first half of this year,”
Read On ABC News Radio:
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/austan-goolsbee-unemployment-rate-remains-unacceptably-high.html#ixzz3JNM7frOP
Maybe I'm crazy or just too angry but I think they are much worse.
I think they are vicious committed statists who, given the necessary executive order, would begin to line us up and shoot us down.
I'm not prepared to doubt such an order either.
Does anyone know which “Jim Wallis” Obama is referring to? Is it “Rev. Jim Wallis” of Soujourners, a Marxist, pro-VC/Hanoi revolutionary who was “tight” with Hillary and perhaps others in the White House?
This could be big, very big.
I thought that Jim Wallis name sounded familiar:
from Wiki:Notice—a spiritual adviser to Barack Obama:
Jim Wallis (born June 4, 1948) is a Christian writer and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. Wallis is well known for his advocacy on issues of peace and social justice. Although Wallis actively eschews political labels, he describes himself as an evangelical and is often associated with the evangelical left and the wider Christian left. He works as a spiritual advisor to President Barack Obama.[1] He is married to the Rev. Joy Carroll, who was one of the first female priests in the Church of England.[2] He is also a leader in the Red-Letter Christian movement.[3]
No. You are wrong. Stop the crap-filled legacy of “we were once nice folks.” Please, stop the crap.
If he stole them liberally then he must’ve called them a tax.
Actually, that was how I grew up. My family and neighbors were just like that.
Good. Thank you.
Just want to officially make sure that this is the same Jim Wallis, one of the most Marxist so-called clergyman in America, and with direct access to the White House.
He is a leader of attacks on nearly every conservative idea that would give this country back to decent Americans.
He is slimy. I would compare him to Saul Alinsky whom I met in 1969. Sleazy is the word I used to describe Alinsky back then and it is also a word that fits Wallis to a “t”.
Both reds without a party, but reds nevertheless.
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Frontline has it all wrong.
1. Gruber was simply walking down the hall at the Senate building, when he accidentally ran into newly elected senator Obama.
2. Then Obama unexpectedly gave Gruber a $400,000 check for future services and out of the kindness of his heart.
3. Gruber, bewildered, said thank you, and told Obama that if he ever needed any help with ObamaCare in two years when he would be elected President, to call him, because he was a whiz with manipulating numbers that could fool all the people all the time.
4. $400,000 payday for a minor "adviser" for a few hours of work?
5. My goodness. Isn't that more money than Congressmen make in a year?
6. Gruber said that he was in a meeting with the President with other advisers. Do we have the names of these other advisers, people who could verify that Gruber was indeed there?
7. List of health policy advisers: If we had a list of other advisers besides Gruber, then we could compare how much money each received. If Gruber was one of the advisers who received the most money, then we know that Obama and Pelosi are lying when they claim that Gruber was merely a minor adviser on ObamaCare.
lol, you sure you aren’t part of the SPIN TEAM at the White House?
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