Posted on 09/17/2009 4:38:38 PM PDT by mdittmar
President Obama took his health care pitch to a college campus today, telling a cheering crowd at the University of Maryland that he is keeping his promise to not just clean up the messes he inherited, but build a better future.
In a message tailored for the young people who powered his campaign, Obama said his domestic agenda is designed to "ensure your generation" has the same opportunities as his.
He specifically mentioned that Congress is on the cusp of overhauling the student loan system to make it simpler and cheaper for students. "That's the change you worked for, that's the change you voted for, that's the change I will deliver," he said.
The president said another defining struggle for the younger generation is his push for sweeping changes to the nation's health care system. While young people might think they're immune from health problems, one third have trouble paying their medical bills, he said.
Despite all the machinations on the details of the health care bills, Obama said the bottom-line issue is simpler:
"It's about what kind of country you want to be. You gave time to this campaign because you believe America can still do great things.
"I may not be the first president to take up the cause of health care reform," he said. "I am determined to be the last -- with your help."
His full remarks are below:
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
AUDIENCE: Fired up! (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Ready to go?
AUDIENCE: Ready to go!
THE PRESIDENT: Fired up?
AUDIENCE: Fired up!
THE PRESIDENT: Ready to go?
AUDIENCE: Ready to go!
THE PRESIDENT: Fired up?
AUDIENCE: Fired up!
THE PRESIDENT: Ready to go?
AUDIENCE: Ready to go!
THE PRESIDENT: Let's go change the world.
Thank you, everybody.
And after in the crowd — OK, lets go clubbing, we heard enough from this jerk.
He might as well. They’re going to pay for it.
I can’t WAIT until these ‘kids’ hit 35 or 40 and look back in HORROR at what they’ve done.
They are going to be living in a Third World Country by then...
The 'young' are about to get a bill they won't be jazzed about. Party on! Whoo hoo!
Youth of America:
He fooled you once . . shame on him.
If you let him fool you twice . . .
Young and dumb. They don’t know any better.
Support me and my plan to force you kids to buy your own health care policy!
Once again, doesn’t this bozo know how to do ANYTHING but campaign?
Somebody tell him the election’s over.
He can’t sit still in the Oval Office and do actual work. His handlers said so a few weeks after the inauguration. He needs to get out of the WH and go on trips. Preferably on AF 1.
Who better to sell this crap to than people who most likely never had any real responsibilities and/or never had to work for anything in their lives.
Yeah ;-)
Then when they finally catch on to what they have done, they will try to inform their children, who likewise will reject anything their parents tell them. On and on it goes.
The youths have always rejected what the older generation said was best, it's just the way they are.
That is why Hussein is going on Letterman.
What a complete jackass. I work with a lot of young people who have bought into the Hussein cult....skulls full of mush, as Rush would say, fresh out of college and who’ve either never had to fend for themselves or whose parents have provided it all. I guess that is the same thing.
Hopefully they’ll lose.
Obviously he forgot to tell them he destroyed their future and they will have to pay the bill.... but many of them have no comprehension of that.
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