Obama Seeks Game-Changer With Health Speech

Fox News ^ | 09/09/2009 | AP

[fiscon1]

Reaching for a game-changer, President Barack Obama is beset by conflicting goals in a prime-time address Wednesday expected to detail just how he wants to expand health care coverage and lower medical costs while signaling to a deeply divided Congress that he's ready to deal.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sorry Obie, check the Wall Street Journal. Sarah has already cut you off at the knees.

[AD from SpringBay]

Come on baby! Everybody says you give good speech. Let me have some of that - oh yeah!

[Man50D]

The best thing that can happen for those who oppose government run health care is for BO to speak in support of government run health care.

[angkor]

Another campaign speech with familiar canned rhetorical flourishes (”This time and this place,” “Now and not later,” “For all people and all times,” blah blah Zer0isms), jutting jaw and crossed brow.

Fail.

[NMEwithin]

For Barry to really effect a game changer he would have to actually tell the truth about his “plan”....and that is not going to happen.

[GnuHere]

I think I’ve already booked that time to watch my fingernails grow.

[riri]

What are they looking to accomplish with, yet, another speech? Another earth moving, religious moment for the masses? That ship has sailed. He needs to move on to more concrete rhetoric to sell this.

Why can this man not stay off the TV, even to his own detriment?

[angkor]

And the second best thing that can happen for those who oppose government run health care is for BO to speak in support of government run health care in front a United States Congress which no citizen or taxpayer in their right mind believes has the basic honesty or minimal competence to further tamper with our health care system or "global warming" or illegal aliens or, really, anything all.

[PubliusMM]

I rather expect him to make the point, again, that a notable portion of the cost of these new proposals will come from cutting fraud and waste in the current Medicare program.

Question... If he knows there is waste and fraud in Medicare, why isn’t he doing something about it already?

This is all about CONTROL and the socialists’ dream of a government run, single payer system that will further embed the poisonous tentacles of government-gone-wild into the very souls of the American people.

It’s time to force government back within the confines of the Constitution; while we still have a country.

[allmost]

"I'll play that game Alex..."

[angkor]

>>> Why can this man not stay off the TV, even to his own detriment? <<<<

I think with his repeated silly comments about talk show hosts, beat cops doing their duties, and other trivial minutiae, Zer0 has clearly demonstrated that he is a small man of confused priorities and is a genuine amateur.

He is attempting to drag America down to his level, and maybe he will succeed.

[Paladin2]

The facts are out and the debate is over. No amount of hopeychangy is going to win the day.

[Seruzawa]

So, this is it? This is what all the hype was about? Some guy who likes to give speeches? That’s all there is? Pathetic.

[Charles Martel]

The facts are out and the debate is over.

Exactly. See how they like it, now that the consensus is on the other foot. Or something like that...

[bboop]

No kidding — I am taking care of ingrown toenails at that time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is there an old Jimmy Stewart movie on another channel ?

[N. Theknow]

So, this is it? This is what all the hype was about? Some guy who likes to give speeches? That’s all there is? Pathetic.

Amazing, huh?

Kind of like, "Well, you should subscribe to the newspaper for the coupons and the TV Guide."

[Happyinmygarden]

Oh boy, I can hardly wait to hear what NEW and exciting hope and change thingys he has to say!

[newfreep]

obozo's speech tonight is irrelevant - the fix is in.

The socialists will get Deathcare passed and move on to cap&tax and amnesty for 30 million new rat voters.

I fear the ONLY way to save America is CW2. Soon.

Wolverines!!!!