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Obama: Too Much Media Emphasis On Health Care Protests
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Posted on 08/15/2009 3:14:06 PM PDT by kcvl

U.S. President Barack Obama says news organizations are putting too much emphasis on scenes of hostile protesters at public meetings on his health care reform plan. The president received tough but polite questions from Americans Friday in the Northwestern state of Montana.

Mr. Obama said most meetings on his plan have been civil, and those that have been disrupted are in the minority. "What you have not seen on TV, and what makes me proud, are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country. Everywhere across the country you are seeing people who are coming together and having a civil, honest, often difficult conversation about how we can improve the system," he said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymob; arrogantbastard; firstamendment; obama; obamacare; obamavs1stamendment; obamavsamerica; obamavsamericans; townhall; townhalls
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To: kcvl

Well Obambi, why don’t you appoint a Czar to see about that?


41 posted on 08/15/2009 3:43:56 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: kcvl; All

Obama verifying the old adagio : Once a liar, always a liar

“Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits” - Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EAP47SdcY


42 posted on 08/15/2009 3:45:32 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: kcvl
Does the phrase pot calling kettle black (pun VERY intended) apply here?
43 posted on 08/15/2009 3:45:46 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Diogenesis

She’s even wearing the same jacket. Good find, Diogenesis.


44 posted on 08/15/2009 3:45:46 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: kcvl
Obama: Too Much Media Emphasis On Health Care Protests

Awwwww. Bammys falling flat on his socialist face while the whole world watches.

[chortle!!]

45 posted on 08/15/2009 3:45:56 PM PDT by MamaTexan ( ~ ~ Obamacare...'cause the Reapers cheaper!!! ~ ~)
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To: kcvl

MSM is not going to report it anyway. I just turned on Fox and there is Obama lying his way through a town hall.


46 posted on 08/15/2009 3:49:30 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: kcvl

Obama: Too Much Media Emphasis On Health Care Protests

The Drama Queen has spoken again!


47 posted on 08/15/2009 3:51:11 PM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: Diogenesis

Isn’t it illegal to impersonate a doctor?


48 posted on 08/15/2009 3:54:07 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty
MSM is not going to report it anyway. I just turned on Fox and there is Obama lying his way through a town hall.

Obama doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. He has never run a business! All he has ever done is exactly what he is doing now! Blabbing his damn mouth!

49 posted on 08/15/2009 3:54:42 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: FastCoyote; Secret Agent Man
What the President is using is a saturation technique, which (as Secret Agent Man points out) is right out of the communist playbook. And yes, I said "communist". Where in hell do people think he learned this stuff? Frank Marshall Davis. Bill Ayers. The writings of Saul Alinsky. He learned his trade from communists.

In this case, the technique serves a broader strategy of overwhelming the opposition - and the larger systemic structures targeted for control. Unlike most people who over-expose themselves, eventually causing even their admirers to beg them to give it a rest, Obama will not let you alone, ever.

Do you recall what Michelle Obama said about her husband?:

"“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed...”

Do you have a better sense now about what she really meant by that? It was not merely over-the-top rhetoric about her husband's intention to bring about change. It was an admission of her understanding of the greater project in which he and his Administration are presently engaged, and a foreshadowing of one of the strategies he would use to promote that project.

I believe that the Progressives who now control the White House and a powerful bloc in Congress are true believers who are convinced their moment has come. They never gave up the dream of establishing Communism in the United States, though they will never call it by that name (as is part of their strategy, too).

What we see now unfolding is an attempt to overwhelm everyone and everything with a program of continuous crisis and campaign, a daily assault on the senses, soon to be accompanied by very real efforts at attacking and restricting the liberties of the opposition.

As I write these words, I never believed I would ever say any of these things, but I will not deny the evidence of my senses in the pursuit of moderation or cooperation with those who clearly have no such intention. It's coming, and soon - a direct attack on free speech by muting conservative talk radio and FOX news, on Conservative organizations by way of their tax status, on 2nd Amendment rights.

Barack Obama, the man who is always in your face, will never stop being in our faces until we organize and take back this country, preferably at the ballot box. I think you must know the Progressives have plans for that, too. From little ACORNS grow mighty oaks. It's not too late to stop the nuts.

50 posted on 08/15/2009 3:56:09 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Safrguns

That was an awesome video. I just mailed it to my list.


51 posted on 08/15/2009 3:56:33 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: andy58-in-nh
I absolutely agree with every word you said.

Also, the economy will crash soon. Big time! Cloward-Piven Strategy.

52 posted on 08/15/2009 4:01:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
Don't get me started on the economy, now. All right, since you brought it up... (wink):

I've written extensively about this here and elsewhere, but the fundamental thing to understand is that in our present economy, there are no fundamentals. There are no real earnings, only baseless projections. No new jobs, only temporary make-work projects and government sinecures. No investment, only debt and credit expansion by means of phony money and unsecured obligations. There are no "green shoots": only weeds pressing through the crumbling asphalt and concrete of decaying factories.

The United States is being systematically embezzled by the Federal Government and its Wall Street cronies, all in on the game, playing the investing public for suckers, just pumping and patiently awaiting the dumping to follow, in hopes of short-term lucre at the expense of their friends, families, and neighbors.

Bad philosophy (collectivism) and bad economics (socialism) breeds bad behavior, and treats those who refuse to play along as their victims.

The time is coming to shrug.

53 posted on 08/15/2009 4:24:20 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: kcvl

He ‘splains to them: “Media, do what I tell you, just like you’ve been doing. I can’t handle it if you don’t do what I say. I’ll, I’ll, have a fit, I will.


54 posted on 08/15/2009 4:26:07 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: kcvl

As I recall whenever President Bush was asked about some protest de jour he most always answered with something like “This is America, we have a right to freedom of speech”, “we have differences”. I don’t recall him ever saying the protesters were too much of anything.

If someone can research and present some old clips and compare it to President Obama’s statements, we might actually see how partisan Obama is compared to Bush.


55 posted on 08/15/2009 4:34:48 PM PDT by GoforBroke
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To: andy58-in-nh
I believe that the Progressives who now control the White House and a powerful bloc in Congress are true believers who are convinced their moment has come. They never gave up the dream of establishing Communism in the United States, though they will never call it by that name (as is part of their strategy, too).

Agree. Rush had a segment about this on Friday. Along the same line, he said:

"They don't call themselves socialists. They don't even call themselves liberals. They call themselves progressives now. But when Norman Thomas said, "The American people would never vote for socialism, but under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program," that's no different than Rahm Emanuel saying, "We have to take advantage of this crisis."

56 posted on 08/15/2009 4:35:57 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Again I completely agree. It is being done intentionally too.


57 posted on 08/15/2009 4:41:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
Also, the economy will crash soon. Big time! Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Agree. Hussein and the other Communists in government are hell bent on destroying capitalism and the economy. I believe the house of cards will come crashing down very soon -- perhaps as soon as September/October.

58 posted on 08/15/2009 4:43:46 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: GeronL

Then we take our own cameras and post on youtube.


59 posted on 08/15/2009 4:45:04 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: GoforBroke
There are many examples of George Bush publicly accepting criticism. I cannot think of a single instance of him complaining about it.

Obama presents a mirror image: he does not like to be challenged, and fairly bristles whenever questioned. One of his preferred techniques is to trumpet his own good intentions and then to question those of his opponents. This is a common trait among narcissists.

60 posted on 08/15/2009 4:46:15 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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