Sorry, this is what you get because you didn't pick a real man. Like Hillary.
Posted on 08/19/2009 7:03:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Could Hillary Clinton have been right about Barack Obama?
Could she have been right when she said that he was the candidate of lofty promises -- "the skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect" -- and not the candidate of real leadership?
In her former life as a presidential candidate, Clinton warned voters that Obama would let them down. She warned them that when the going got tough, he would fold up.
She said it was not just a matter of Obama lacking experience -- that was the least of it -- but that he lacked the strength, the toughness, the will to get the job done.
In January 2008, at Nashua High School North just before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton said of Obama: "I applaud his incredible ability to make a speech that really leaves people inspired. My point is that when the cameras disappear and you're there in the Oval Office having to make tough decisions, I believe I am better prepared and ready to lead our country."
Democratic voters disagreed with her (though she did win New Hampshire), and Obama went on to win both his party's nomination and the presidency. But Clinton, now his secretary of state, left him with a warning: "You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose."
It is prose time for Obama.
And we are now going to see how he governs when it comes to meaningful health care reform. In his heart and in his head he knows what it takes for such reform. He knows that a public option -- a government-run health care program like Medicare -- has the best chance of competing with the insurance industry.
In Grand Junction, Colo., last week Obama said that if the public option "could keep its costs lower and provide a good-quality service and good benefits, then that would help keep the insurance companies honest."
The public option would do so by creating not socialism but competition. To compete with the huge health care industry, you have to be huge yourself or you get steamrolled. That's why a public option would work and a system of smaller health care "co-ops" almost certainly would not.
In general, the health care industry wants health care reform and for a very simple reason: It would mean 47 million new customers, many of them young and healthy.
But the industry does not want a public option as a part of that reform, because a public option would be large enough to negotiate with private insurers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and doctors for lower costs.
"A public option would cut deeply into their current profits," writes Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. "That's why they've been willing to spend a fortune on lobbyists, threaten and intimidate legislators and ordinary Americans, and even rattle Obama's cage to the point where the administration is about to give up on it."
We don't know for sure that Obama is about to give up on the public option. I think, in the end, he will not. I think he may be tougher than some think and stronger than the polls show. But I admit there are troubling signs.
"The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform," Obama said at Grand Junction. "This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."
But it is a very important sliver, a critical aspect. And how Obama acts right now on health care reform could tell us how he will act for the rest of his presidency.
Sometimes it is not enough to have just your heart and your head in the right place. You have to have your guts there, too.
Obama “man up”?
How can he?
He's the “missing link” evolutionists are looking for.
He's no man. He's something else that is not completely human.
“Sometimes it is not enough to have just your heart and your head in the right place. You have to have your guts there, too.”
Well we all know Obama has NO HEART.
His head is hidden where the sun doesn’t shine.
Obama has no guts. So forget about that one.
Zero has problems ... .
A "public option" would not negotiate, it would mandate.
Should that not be He's the NOWHERE MAN please listen? the world is at your command!
One tabloid says he will fire her. That would be fun to watch.
And she will welcome it since of course, Barry’s short leash of her will end....to Barry’s detriment.
I didn’t know Hitlery was still running for President.
Was the phrase “like a cheap cardboard suitcase” ever used?
Hillary Cretin dissing Barry. Zero X Zero = Zero
All evidence points to his heart and his head fully devoted to Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky via Frank Davis Marshall. Communism is his religion and redistribution of wealth is his devotion.
For what it is worth, I know George Sopos is behind this entire debacle. But in the brief studying I have done on Soros and his background, when the lawn chair folds (Or when things go bad) Soros stops, packs his bags and prepares for his next attempt.
Let us pray that the American people have awoken and stopped Soros in his tracks...but be careful...like an arch enemy to a super hero, Soros will be back sometime in the not so far future to try it again.
“Well we all know Obama has NO HEART.”
like the Imus guy on hannity said: he just wants to go to Martha’s Vineyard.
Obama’s in this for the ride. He gets to travel the world, give speeches in front of thousands. But he doesn’t want to do any hard work. That’s why he lets pelosi and reid write all the crappy stimulus and healthcare bills.
He's the “missing link” evolutionists are looking for.
Where's the "That's Racist!" Kid?
Bingo, you got it. The whole family is on a big long vacation at the expense of the USA. Barry just wants to keep campaigning or speaking to the masses. I was wondering 20 minutes ago, who exactly is leading this nation of ours and what exactly in the way of executive work has Barry done? He has signed legislation that he doesn’t read. He is appointing all these “czars” so they can cover for his lack of leadership. This has to be one of the biggest farces I have ever bared witness to. He always gave me the impression of a pretender. Empty suit describes him pretty well, but doesn’t capture his arrogance to go along with this empty suit. Quite a combo to have in our White House, not as a guest but the Executive.
Let’s see how many more trips the Obamas can knock off over the next 41 months.
I hope they take a break so they can buy new shorts.
“Bingo, you got it. The whole family is on a big long vacation at the expense of the USA. Barry just wants to keep campaigning or speaking to the masses.”
i wondered...his healthcare plan is in deep trouble so why is he giving town halls in montana? It’s a red state and besides, very few people live there. Why not make the case in florida or Ohio? then I realized the only reason he was there was because he was on vacation so might as well give a speech there. But it’s not because he was willing to do all the work to push his plan.
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