Posted on 08/11/2009 6:53:24 PM PDT by pissant
I continue to be a supporter of President Barack Obama. He has had several outstanding successes. The major one has been a positive change in the economy due primarily, I believe, to his hand-picked team of economic advisers who, from all indications, have fashioned an effective economic recovery plan. The recovery still has a long way to go, but using the language of my doctors at the hospital in which I recently spent six critical weeks recovering from open-heart surgery, “All the numbers are going in the right direction.” I also believe his reaching out to our allies and those not allied with us has somewhat calmed the world’s roiled waters.
Yet, strangely, the President’s support is waning. A recent CNN poll gave him a C-minus after 200 days in office, whereas at the end of his first one hundred days, he got almost universally a B-plus.
I think most people would say that the President’s standing with the American public has suffered as a result of his handling of health care policy. During the election, Barack Obama promised to speedily deliver universal health care.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldtribune.com ...
Ouch! That's gonna hurt in the morning.
Most alarming for people like me, who at 84 years of age recently needed a quadruple bypass and aortic valve replacement, are the pronouncements of President Obama’s appointee, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who, according to a New York Post op ed article by Betsy McCauley, former Lt. Governor of the State of New York, stated, “Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, ‘as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others’ (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).” He also stated, “…communitarianism’ should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those ‘who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens…An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.’ (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ’96). “
looks like koch just got mugged except this time the liberals aren’t asking “your money OR your life”
If this isn't satire this guy needs to be in an institution for the criminally insane.
You bet Eddie! Only one quarter of a million Americans got pink slips last month! How you doin?
“The major one has been a positive change in the economy due primarily, I believe, to his hand-picked team of economic advisers who, from all indications, have fashioned an effective economic recovery plan”
Well, the lack of intellegence is showing right there.
Imagine. All they have to do is make up a plan and the economy recovers. O really can walk on water.
“All the numbers are going in the right direction”
Actually, we’re heading for another economic depression, Mr. Mayor. I would not be in stocks right now.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/08/real-unemployment-situation.html
Looks like one Democrat has lost his appatite for Obama’s grape kool aid.
LOL
Koch was a big Hillary supporter last year. He was open to supporting McCain if he picked Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge as veep. When Palin was announced as Veep, he swung back to the Rodent party line. If OBamaCare passes, Koch could vote for the GOP ticket in 2012(he endorsed Rudy for Mayor in 1997). However the GOP candidate must be a RINO.
Beame and Koch did a very good job of getting NYC out of a jam. Koch is my favorite politician of all time. His opinions were shot from the hip. There still is no BS about him.I’ve worked in Manhattan for over 30 yrs now.
I consider myself a very conservative person.
No he doesn’t. Koch supported Bush for two terms but then went back to his moonbat ways. Incredible that ANYONE who voted for Bush also voted for Obamunist. What complete idiocy. Bush had his problems, BIG problems, but bambi? The urge to vote for the cool black guy was overwhelming for so many. Ugh!
Did Crazy Eddie’s leg stop tingling? Koch was the former mayor of “Fun City”,but is now better known as its clown prince..
(Paglia weighs in)
I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a ‘death panel’ under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin’s shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate’s unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.”
I thought Palin got it exactly right. Instead of backing off the use of the phrase “death panels” (as some people even on the right are insisting we should do)—it is time to double down and hang this phrase on ObamaCare’s neck. People need to understand exactly what is at stake, and exactly where Obama’s team is coming from.
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