Senior Citizen Health Czar
Posted on 08/20/2009 9:58:24 AM PDT by AuntB
ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report:
In a conference call with liberal and progressive religious leaders Wednesday afternoon, President Obama railed against those who were “bearing false witness” in the debate over health care reform.
“I know there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness, but I want everyone to know what health insurance reform is all about,” the president said.
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor,” is, of course, one of the Ten Commandments. (It’s the 9th Commandment in all religions except for the Catholic and Lutheran traditions, in which it’s the 8th.)
Mr. Obama pointed the finger at unnamed sources for the “distortion(s)” “fabrications” and “ludicrous ideas” in the debate over health care reform and rebutted specific “divisive and deceptive attacks.”
The president said the bill would not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, or as he called them, “illegal aliens.” “That's not true. There's a specific provision in the bill that does not provide health insurance for those individuals.”
“You've heard that this is a government takeover of health care,” the president said. “That's not true. You've heard that this is all going to…mean government funding of abortion. Not true.”
Mr. Obama said these claims were “fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation, and that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, and in the wealthiest nation on Earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call.”
Mr. Obama called on the religious leaders to help him share the good word about health care reform and set the record straight.
“I need you to knock on doors, talk to your neighbors. I need you to spread the facts and speak the truth,” he said.
-Jake Tapper and Karen Travers
About this comment: "The president said the bill would not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, or as he called them, “illegal aliens.” “That's not true. There's a specific provision in the bill that does not provide health insurance for those individuals.”
Just one LIE from the article.
There was a provision to exclude aliens, the Heller amendment which was VOTED down by the democrat congress! There is nothing to stop illegal aliens from getting free health care!
Hey, Zero? I thought we aren’t a ‘Christian nation’? Hmmmmmm?
“You’ve heard that this is all going to…mean government funding of abortion. Not true.”
What a lying POS this guy is.
America to Obama: "Saddle thine ass and quickly depart."
Obami is breaking the commandment that he is accusing others of breaking. Typical tactic of the Devil.
Alinsky tactics, make the opposition (Christians) abide by their rules, while you abide by none. Interestingly, we saw it used here by the atheist Marxists defending evolution being taught to grade schoolers.
Obama feels strongly both ways.
I believe that Tapper is simply reporting the Obama lies.
“America to Obama: “Saddle thine ass and quickly depart.””
Sweet!
File under: “Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining!”
Here comes the ‘moral sanctioning’ by the ‘Progressives’. In warfare, you must put your enemy in the ‘immoral position’.
I will not be lectured by the morally bankrupt Marxists!
there's also that pesky "Thou shalt not kill"
Many interesting comments on this ‘story’ at the link.
Just one:
To: hkdakota
Stretching the truth? “Please give examples of President Obama stretching the truth”.
Refer to the bottom link, I call it a LIE.
The legislation contains no verification mechanism to ensure that illegal immigrants do not apply for benefits. Republicans offered an amendment to close this loophole it would have required verification using the existing methods that are already in place to verify eligibility for other federal benefits programs. But, when they were asked to put the language of the bill where their words were, in a party-line vote, House Democrats rejected the amendment to require verification and close this loophole.
The bill also leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family including illegal immigrants is also eligible for the benefits.
Re: http://thehill.com/op-eds/healthcare-scheme-would-benefit-illegal-immigrants-2009-08-03.html
Reminder, Bush is no longer the President. Quit looking up the dead horses arse.
Is this the best the Dems got. I thought they had us out-brained and out hustled last November. They had the internet saturated, they had all the shadowy financing in place due to armies of 20 something wunderkinds, they were supposed to dominate politics for a 1000 year Reich. All the intelligentsia and all the best and the brightest were now liberals enlisted in the Obama army. All that brilliance and as Joe Biden would say “A very nice looking black man” to head it all. And the best they could do, the sum total of their message is to misquote the bible. Back to the bong Obamanauts....you’re still weak douches.
Careful there Mr. Obami - God will not be mocked.
Is there any doubt anymore that Odumbo thinks he’s really an incarnation of God?
CSM to President, “Keep your laws off my BODY!”
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