Posted on 08/12/2009 1:20:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Time and again, President Obama portrayed himself as the voice of reason combating "myths" and "misinformation" during a town hall meeting on healthcare Tuesday — while he himself weaved a web of gaffes, errors, and misstatements that further muddled the facts on healthcare.
The president's missteps during the meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., triggered a flurry of corrections and clarifications from the White House and other organizations.
The flubs come at a critical time for Obama, who has launched a public relations offensive on his signature issue at a time when polls show plummeting support for his healthcare proposals, dropping 5 points in just two weeks, according to the latest Rasmussen survey.
"Change of this major sort requires trust and a leap of faith," political science expert Larry J. Sabato told Newsmax, in reaction to Obama's performance. "Every misstatement is damaging to the president’s goal. People instinctively know that the current system is flawed and that the president’s proposed system will have a new set of flaws."
Obama's most egregious error: claiming that the AARP has endorsed his plan, forcing the organization that represents older Americans to issue a correcting statement that it has done no such things.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I have read their literature, they are all for it, in fact defend it. Take a close look at the new head of the org. and tell me where he stands.
They are afraid because their target membership is directly impacted by this plan and has been reading more and more about it and getting madder and madder about it.
At this point an endorsement of this plan by AARP would significantly impact their membership and thus their revenue...so they are distancing themselves from it to avoid that, though the leadership has been pushing it in principle.
I quit AARP the first time they did it.
MY LETTER TO THE WHITEHOUSE AND OBAMA ABOUT FREE SPEECH
The real knee-slapper was when BO referred to UPS and Fed Ex doing well while the US Postal Service is going broke. Now that was not exactly a ringing endorsement for government-run health care. Without TOTUS, he’s just another shifty, no-talent politician.
yeah and Caterpillar is going to rehire all of those people once we pass the stimulus....
Uh, yeah... If you think the AARP is against Obama’s Health Care Deform, you better read AARP’s fine print in their nebulous statement:
“Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.”
That’s what we call, “CYA”
Seems that AARP’s members canceled their memberships en masse’ after AARP signed on to ObamaCare.
So, AARP is trying to con the seniors into thinking that they (AARP) oppose Obama’s Health Care Deform-—which, they don’t!
AARP is infested with Lefturds who have weaseled their way into top positions in AARP in order to leverage and control the direction of the organization...
Cheers
Well, just in case they’re not telling the truth, I cancelled my card. I kept forgetting to use it anyway.
First liar don’t stand a chance during this administration.
>>They are afraid because their target membership is directly impacted by this plan and has been reading more and more about it and getting madder and madder about it.
A year ago, their members were all for it. But that was when they though they’d be getting free health insurance that would cover every ache and pain and make them feel like 20 year olds—and poor suckers that still work would pay for it all!
Now they’ve learned that Obamacare has decided that they are useless eaters and a burden and suddenly, they’ve discovered capitalism again.
If he adds a provision that protects them from the Death Panels and only euthanizes sick people under 60, they’ll be all for it again.
Disgusting. Does anyone have the morals to support something that is good for the country, even if its not completely in their own best interests anymore?
Is that Barry peeking out from under the bus?
The loss of membership must be starting to hurt.
I actually forced myself to sit through his latest performance. As far as I’m concerned it was no different from any of his other scripted, controlled, dog-and-pony shows.
He really did not add anything new to his arguments beyond his castigating of Big Pharma. He merely repeated his rote recitations while insisting that he did not say what he was recorded as saying several years ago.
Basically, it was: “I’m handsome, eloquent and glamorous. Trust me.”
As for AARP. I turned 45 recently and have started getting their crap. I’ve been hearing complaints about their leftism since the beginnings of the revived talk radio in the early nineties. AARP has been in decline for several years now and is a textbook example of an organization that is gradually taken over by college-indoctrinated leftys making their “long march through the institutions.”
If they are not endorsing the plan, then why are they running commercials on foxnews.com (click the link for white house saving fishy emails) but they don’t support or endorse the plan. rrriiiiggght.
If they are not endorsing the plan, then why are they running commercials on foxnews.com (click the link for white house saving fishy emails) but they don’t support or endorse the plan. rrriiiiggght.
Okay, which one is the Marxist and which one is the Liar? Both seem to me to be Marxists and both seem to be to be Liars.
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