Explaining ObamaCare To Stupid: Frustrated Dems bringing in the marketers to craft a simpler message

Forbes ^ | August 23, 2010 | Merrill Matthews

[2ndDivisionVet]

This points to exactly why they're about to go down to total defeat. Two page article.

[warpsmith]

...that the reason Democrats faired so poorly...

really?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Eighty percent of the public last year said they were satisfied with their personal health care plan.

[Rashputin]

Former president Clinton is smart enough to know what sort of crap his fellow democrats will fall for and use it to push them all over a cliff. Who but the Clintons will be left in the “former winners” circle to rebuild the democrat party when the lemmings now in Congress all go over the edge to defeat? No one. Furthermore, there are precious few democrats the Clintons and their machine don't have a grudge against after the way Obama (as they see it) usurped Hillary's chance to run.

So, if anyone still thought Bill was a team this proves otherwise. As long as he's thinking with his big head he's an awfully devious sort as well.

Regards

[Rashputin]

sorry, correction

“a team” should be “a team player”

[Lancey Howard]

The scumbag Democrats always seem to be looking for new ways to lie. Good luck to them with turning communist health care rationing into something American taxpayers want.

“Okay losers... ‘splain.”

[Lancey Howard]

Early in the last presidential campaign Bill was asked if he thought Obama was qualified to be president. Clinton's rather odd, cryptic reply:

"The constitution sets qualification for the president. And then the people decide who they think would be the better president."

It has been my opinion since August of 2008 that the Clintons know something, and that it was they who set in motion the whole "birther" thing. Remember, it was a big Hillary supporter in the Philadelphia area who long ago launched the first Obama eligibility lawsuit.

Yes, the Clintons have no intention of waiting another four years to go after the big prize.

[Talisker]

Furthermore, there are precious few democrats the Clintons and their machine don't have a grudge against after the way Obama (as they see it) usurped Hillary's chance to run.

Yeah, but now Hillary has to convince all of those "traitors" that she won't hold it against them when she finally has the brass ring she wanted all her life - and that they denied her...

[Lancey Howard]

Clinton offered his assessment about Obama being “qualified” to be president in early August, 2008. By the end of August, 2008, Hillary fundraiser Philip Berg had taken legal action:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/28/lawsuit-questions-obamas-eligibility-for-office/

[princeofdarkness]

Billy Jeff is the master at playing political head games. Does anybody in their right mind think that he truly wanted Teleprompter Kid and the Dem party to be successful with their election campaigns?

Clinton’s ego would never allow an Obama legacy to eclipse his own. He knows Obama is a one-termer and after he loses he can say “See you should have listened to me. I told you the only thing this guy is good at is fetching coffee.”

[Rashputin]

Yeah, but now Hillary has to convince all of those "traitors" that she won't hold it against them when she finally has the brass ring she wanted all her life - and that they denied her...

It won't take much convincing after the slaughter in November. Even losing the House would be seen as a disaster to the democrat party of if the Senate goes as well, the Clinton wing of the party will be dictating terms rather than having to making peace treaties.

Regards

[Quiller]

Eighty percent of the public last year said they were satisfied with their personal health care plan.

But it was the .00005% of the population who weren't satisfied with the public having choices abouth their healthcare that rammed it down the U.S.'s throat.

[grania]

Yes, ObamaCare needs to be explained to Stupid--and I suggest they start with the Democrats who voted for it.

People are getting informed in other ways. I have a conservative neighbor who thought this health care "reform" would get her the insurance she so desparately needs because of a legit pre-existing condition. Instead, she finds out the policy she could now get would just about take her whole paycheck, and she is barely holding that job.

People like this woman feel duped; they thought it was some kind of gov't freebee. And the stories like this are spreading very, very quickly. Summary....the 'pubs could take a real lot of elections in OH.

[reformedliberal]

We know a well-to-do couple where the wife has major health problems. The husband supported zerOcare (and zerO) because he thought it meant his wife would get low-cost insurance. Since they now live in The Villages, I am sure he has neighbors who have explained the facts to him.

Too many people just did not register the redistributive aspect of this obamination.

[GailA]

btt

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

We've already seen Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., lash out at companies that were taking a billion-dollar write down because of tax changes in retirees' drug benefits. The outraged Waxman demanded hearings until his staff explained to him that the companies were doing exactly what they needed to do under the law. He canceled the hearings.

And then there were four Democratic senators who sent a letter to the head of the IRS in July complaining, "Not only will a 1099 form be necessary for millions of new transactions, the stricter requirements force business owners to collect taxpayer identification information from vendors, contractors, and other companies." Yes, senators, and you voted for it, so it's a little late to complain.

Precious! Please keep "explaining" Obamacare to us non-Ivy-League-educated rabble!

[Liz]

Hey, like Nanzi said-—we’ll all find out what’s in the bill-—AFTER it passes.

ROTFLOL.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Please keep “explaining” Obamacare to us non-Ivy-League-educated rabble! “

Any reasonably intelligent high school graduate without a college degree should be able to explain to the Harvardheads why Obamacare is an abysmal failure.

[sickoflibs]

He is just making fun of that ppt presentation from last week on selling Obama-care. I think I did a better job making fun of it :)

[Liz]

Yes, you did.