Obama says 'it's time to act' on healthcare

Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/7/09 | Peter Nicholas

[Nachum]

In a speech to the AFL-CIO, the president accuses critics and special interests of using scare tactics and spreading 'lies' in healthcare debate.

Reporting from Cincinnati - In a combative Labor Day speech, President Obama said that the healthcare debate had gone on too long and accused opponents of spreading "lies" meant to persuade Americans that his proposed overhaul would cruelly deny care to the elderly.

The president, speaking at an AFL-CIO picnic, said that "special interests" were determined to "scare the heck out of people.

[Nachum]

Funny Mr. President, this is EXACTLY what you said in 2004 in the Illinois state senate.

[dalebert]

did anyone see beck today?..it will finish jobs and small business in this country

[Texas Fossil]

“Obama says” is that similar to “Simon Says”?

[PhiKapMom]

So he is recycling his speech? Figures!

[Secret Agent Man]

Back in July Verizon said it was cutting 8000 jobs by the end of the year to ‘control costs’.

Healthcare reform is being touted in order to ‘control costs’. To believe it won’t cost jobs is insane.

[fortunate sun]

Well, if he said so it MUST be true! tool

[kingu]

There’s lots that can be done to reform health care, just none of your wacky ideas will do anything other than harm the very system you intend to ‘save.’

[FastCoyote]

[In a speech to the AFL-CIO, the president accuses critics and special interests of using scare tactics and spreading ‘lies’ in healthcare debate. ]

So in a speech to a lying special interest called the AFL-CIO, Obama decries lies and special interests??

[timetostand]

I saw his speach - Classic demagoguery!!

[timetostand]

I saw his speech - Classic demagoguery!!

[Gator113]

“it’s time too act”

Obama’s healthcare-con..... has been nothing but an act.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Zero can’t ‘act his way out of a paper bag’.

[cripplecreek]

I know what the goal is and I'm doing my best to make sure others know what it is.

Direct quote from the SEIU bylaws.

We must organize unorganized Healthcare workers, extending to them the gains of unionism while securing control over the Healthcare industry.

SEIU bylaws pdf

Well Mr President, are you man enough to tell the truth? (Yeah its rhetorical)

[Paladin2]

Drive a stake through the bill’s heart.

[Candor7]

Special interstes are scaring the heck out of people?

Obama is scaring the heck out of people, and dong a damn good job at it.

Just look at section 431 of HR 3200, the so called health bill, which ends all IRS privacy between federal agencies, the IRS and HMOs. Why is THAT necessary in a "health care bill?"

Simple, you get sick and you will pay, pay , pay,according to fees set by the amount of income and assets you have, not according to the medical services rendered.

And special intersts are scaring the heck out of people?

Buahahahahahahaah!

Obama YOU RETARD, you are scaring the heck out of people and they are fighting back. GOOD!!

Scrap HR 3200 for the social control piece of $hit that it truly is, and organize a real health care plan that will work, with the supposition that Health Care is a duty, NOT A RIGHT.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And destroy small business.

[smoothsailing]

Obama says 'it's time to act' on healthcare

But in his speech, Obama did little to clarify matters.

Yep, that's our boy.

[Mojave]

In a speech to the AFL-CIO, the president accuses critics and special interests of using scare tactics and spreading 'lies' in healthcare debate.

He's correct in a way. If you accurately quote Obama or his comrades, you're spreading his lies.

[Biggirl]

Did sample Beck today and his special presentation on small businesses dying out hit the nail.

[Biggirl]

Well the word has to get out about what the Obama White House is trying to do to ruin this country.