Posted on 08/10/2009 3:20:25 PM PDT by Talkradio03
A Grand Slam from NakedEmperorNews....nuff said
(Excerpt) Read more at hotairpundit.blogspot.com ...
Sorry ...
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Looks like he was already reported and just recently had his account thrown off YouTube...
He was one of the best if not the best reporter on YouTube.
It may be a joke to you, but this Obama needs his power reduced and fast.
Hoosiermama replies to my failed attempt at sarcasm.
Jes' cain't win in this here FreeRepublic ... nosireeBOB.
“I admire the fact that President Clinton and Sen. Clinton tried to reform health care (in the 1990s). But I believe they did it in the wrong way. It goes to the point of accountability. Their theory was you go behind closed doors, you come up with your theory with the help of your technical experts. You don’t even invite members of Congress from your own party into the negotiations and discussion. And while they were behind closed doors, the insurance company was busy shaping public opinion as well as maneuvering Congress, and by the time they released it ... it was dead in the water. Now, I would do things differently. I would have a table, around which you’d have doctors, nurses, patient advocates. The insurance ...companies would get a seat at the table; they just would not get to buy every chair.
“And I would put my plan forward ... and these negotiations would be on C-Span ... so the public would be part of the conversation and would see the choices being made. ... That builds in accountability in the system.”
Chronicle staff writer Joe Garofoli contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com and jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com.
http://www.bizzyblog.com/ObamaSFchronInterview011708.html
I love seeing the left getting a taste of their own medicine.
Thanks for the ping. I think I’ve been in the same “hole” as you. Nice to hear from you again......don’t quit.
Wow that is good. Send it to drudge... Get it out there in the public domain.
Someone should call CSPAN and find out if they have been approached by Obama to put the pay to play discussions on CSPAN...lol.
Notice on the video at :47 when Obama says the word “drugs” he touches his nose.
He still subconsciously associates drugs with his nose.
Or, write these folk for a follow up:
Chronicle staff writer Joe Garofoli contributed to this report. E-mail the writers at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com and jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com.
Thanks, maggief.
“This Could Be The Final Nail In Health Care”
New Video from NakedEmperorNews: “Mother Of All Political Lies And The Town Hall Mayhem It Caused.”
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-video-from-nakedemperornews-mother.html
Good idea! Thanks for the links.
How the White House’s Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy
August 9, 2009, 3:16PM
I’m a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I’m appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying arm to buy their support.
Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will bar the government from using its huge purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices. That’s basically the same deal George W. Bush struck in getting the Medicare drug benefit, and it’s proven a bonanza for the drug industry. A continuation will be an even larger bonanza, given all the Boomers who will be enrolling in Medicare over the next decade. And it will be a gold mine if the deal extends to Medicaid, which will be expanded under most versions of the healthcare bills now emerging from Congress, and to any public option that might be included. (We don’t know how far the deal extends beyond Medicare because its details haven’t been made public.) Let me remind you: Any bonanza for the drug industry means higher health-care costs for the rest of us, which is one reason why critics of the emerging healthcare plans, including the Congressional Budget Office, are so worried about their failure to adequately stem future healthcare costs. To be sure, as part of its deal with the White House, Big Pharma apparently has promised to cut future drug costs by $80 billion. But neither the industry nor the White House nor any congressional committee has announced exactly where the $80 billion in savings will show up nor how this portion of the deal will be enforced. In any event, you can bet that the bonanza Big Pharma will reap far exceeds $80 billion. Otherwise, why would it have agreed?
In return, Big Pharma isn’t just supporting universal health care. It’s also spending a lots of money on TV and radio advertising in support. Sunday’s New York Times reports that Big Pharma has budgeted $150 million for TV ads promoting universal health insurance, starting this August (that’s more money than John McCain spent on TV advertising in last year’s presidential campaign), after having already spent a bundle through advocacy groups like Healthy Economies Now and Families USA.
I want universal health insurance. And having had a front-row seat in 1994 when Big Pharma and the rest of the health-industry complex went to battle against it, I can tell you first hand how big and effective the onslaught can be. So I appreciate Big Pharma’s support this time around, and I like it that the industry is doing the reverse of what it did last time, and airing ads to persuade the public of the rightness of the White House’s effort.
But I also care about democracy, and the deal between Big Pharma and the White House frankly worries me. It’s bad enough when industry lobbyists extract concessions from members of Congress, which happens all the time. But when an industry gets secret concessions out of the White House in return for a promise to lend the industry’s support to a key piece of legislation, we’re in big trouble. That’s called extortion: An industry is using its capacity to threaten or prevent legislation as a means of altering that legislation for its own benefit. And it’s doing so at the highest reaches of our government, in the office of the President.
When the industry support comes with an industry-sponsored ad campaign in favor of that legislation, the threat to democracy is even greater. Citizens end up paying for advertisements designed to persuade them that the legislation is in their interest. In this case, those payments come in the form of drug prices that will be higher than otherwise, stretching years into the future.
I don’t want to be puritanical about all this. Politics is a rough game in which means and ends often get mixed and melded. Perhaps the White House deal with Big Pharma is a necessary step to get anything resembling universal health insurance. But if that’s the case, our democracy is in terrible shape. How soon until big industries and their Washington lobbyists have become so politically powerful that secret White House-industry deals like this are prerequisites to any important legislation? When will it become standard practice that such deals come with hundreds of millions of dollars of industry-sponsored TV advertising designed to persuade the public that the legislation is in the public’s interest? (Any Democrats and progressives who might be reading this should ask themselves how they’ll feel when a Republican White House cuts such deals to advance its own legislative priorities.)
We’re on a precarious road — and wherever it leads, it’s not toward democracy.
Robert Reich
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Obama sets Iowa sights on Edwards - In a three-way fight, both are making change a campaign keynote, but in very different ways.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Author: Larry Eichel INQUIRER SENIOR WRITER
If you listen to Barack Obama in these closing days, you can hear how much John Edwards is on his mind.
The two have been locked in a tight, three-way battle - along with Hillary Rodham Clinton - for Democratic supremacy in the caucuses here Thursday. And both men express a lot of the same views.
They talk about fixing the way Washington works and reducing the influence of large corporations so America can move toward universal health care and energy independence.
But their approaches could not be more different, and that’s what Obama likes to dwell on.
Without mentioning Edwards by name, the Illinois senator has been telling his audiences for the last week that there are those who think you’re dangerously naïve if you don’t view politics as a pitched battle between perennially warring camps.
“They say, ‘You can’t vote for Obama because he’s too nice, he’s too polite, he’s not angry and confrontational enough,’ “ he said during a speech at a community center here yesterday. “Change is not going to come just because we holler and shout at folks. There’s no shortage of anger in Washington. We don’t need more heat. We need more light.”
There are signs that Edwards’ fiery populist rhetoric - saying that as president he wouldn’t even talk with the big drug , insurance and oil companies - has stirred the passions of some Iowa Democrats.
Proclaims Edwards at every stop: “They want me to sit at a table and negotiate with these people? No! It will never happen.”
But Obama says that picking fights is not the way to make change happen. Rather, he said, you get progress by finding common ground and working to end polarization.
Here yesterday, he was asked about how he would deal with health care .
“I’d have a big table, and everybody would be invited, . . .” Obama replied. “Yes, I’d invite the drug companies and the insurance companies and the HMOs. They’d have seats. They just wouldn’t be able to buy every chair.”
These meetings would be televised on C-Span , he said, adding that making the process public would engage the American people, thus weakening the special interests.
“That’s how you get things done, not by shouting,” he said.
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Next tiem use a sarcasm notation there are several that work.
It means he is a Marxist lying bastard who is just a puppet in this plan to take over this country.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/15/nation/na-campaign15?pg=1
In Michigan, Obama Challenges McCain on Jobs
Los Angeles Times (LATWP News Service) (CA) - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Author: Johanna Neuman and Noam N. Levey
EXCERPT
Pledging to enact health care reform within the first six months of his presidency, Obama praised Clinton’s health - care plan but alluded to her secrecy in developing her proposal by saying that he plans to invite all the players to a conference, open to public view. “The drug companies will have a seat at the table — they just won’t be able to buy every chair,” he said. “We’ll invite Republicans and members of Congress,” and “it’ll be on C-Span ; we’ll do it publicly.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702064.html
Most notably, he stated more clearly than before that he would be able to push through advances such as expanded health-care coverage and a more progressive tax system because of the popular mandate he hopes to win and ongoing pressure from the vast grass-roots organization his campaign has developed.
“When the American people work together, we cannot be stopped,” he said in Marion. “When people are unified, ordinary folks — black, white, Hispanic — when they come together and decide that change needs to come, then change will happen.”
He gave as an example his plan to broadcast on C-SPAN the meetings he would hold with industry representatives and congressional leaders to push health-care reform. “If you see a member of Congress who’s carrying water for the drug companies instead of carrying your water, you’ll be able to hold them accountable,” he said in Anderson.
Obama uses this call for a permanent grass-roots mobilization to distinguish himself from Clinton, who he says is too invested in the existing system. “You know I will be fighting for you because I will be accountable to you,” he said in Marion. “You funded my campaign, you created the political organization that got me here today, you brought me to this dance, and I dance with the one that brung me.”
set the table for impeachment
I should have previously put the address of the clip, so I’ll do it now:
This wonderful and strong and intelligent father spoke beautifully. I hope everyone sees it.
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