Posted on 01/17/2010 12:06:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Democratic fears increase that health insurance reform could slip away with a crucial vote for a new U.S. senator in Massachusetts, President Obama on Sunday used a church pulpit at a Martin Luther King Day service to say the massive health bill would be a victory for "decency."
Speaking to congregants at Vermont Avenue Baptist church in Washington, D.C., before heading north to rally for Attorney General Martha Coakley, Obama said the legislation will help more than 30 million Americans, "men women and children, mothers and fathers" to get insurance.
"This will be a victory not for Democrats," Obama said. "It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will be a victory for the United States of America."
It was the president's first visit to a church in Washington, D.C., since Oct. 11, though the White House says Obama attends the Evergreen Chapel in Camp David when he visits the presidential retreat in rural Maryland.
Democrats are working furiously to reach an agreement on the massive bill as they watch closely the prospect of Coakley losing the seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy to Republican Scott Brown. Brown has pledged to be the 41st vote against health insurance reforms. The election is Tuesday.
Democrats eyeing the possibility of losing the 60th seat needed to stop a Republican filibuster of the bill have suggested the Senate may try to pass a deal with only 51 votes rather than 60.
"Reconciliation is an option," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told Bloomberg Television. Reconciliation is a process that allows the majority to reduce the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts if it means cutting the deficit, which the bill claims to do.(continued)
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The most indecent POS campaigning for DeathCare as if that’s decent. Give me a break.
The facts, Mr. President, say otherwise, but I know you & your kind would like to keep us ignorant of the truth.
The Left destroys lives and people. THAT's decency???
Decency, like telling the truth, is something that never is a concern with o-bow-man.
If obama "health care" is so good for people, why does he have to make special back-room deals with unions, Nebraska, Louisiana, and who-knows else to get it passed? Why does he have to negotiate the final version of the bill in back rooms, and not in public? Why does he used goons and thugs to beat up on people in town-hall meetings and perhaps now at the voting booths? Why does he not answer the concerns of well-informed Americans who oppose the bill, but instead spreads lies that they are "spreading lies and misinformation" or calls them names like "tea-baggers" and "racists"?
The answer is very simple: obamacare IS DeathCare!!!! It is by no means good for anyone, and if people would do the research or at least use some common sense (i.e., the certain results of cutting Medicare), they would soon realize the truth.
That is--they would realize the truth if they would only remove their blinders, that have convinced them that "it can't happen here". Well, it IS happening here!!!!
If you live in Massachusetts, vote for Scott Brown. If you live elsewhere, give, make calls, and pray hard. In a way, the people of Massachusetts are lucky, since they had been on the sidelines of the health care fight, and of the battles to stop obama in general. Now they are at the front of the battle, just as in 1775 at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. Make us all proud, Massachusetts!!!!
For generations private charities provided hospitals and health care, but, that was not “decent” unless government does it.
Yeah, that's decency, alright.....
He tried to tie government Takeover of Healthcare to the African American experience in their fight for civil rights. The two have nothing to do with each other. It is the only rhetoric this idiot knows how ignorant is that?
Well Harry Reid said Light Skinned Obama could be President because he didn’t speak with a Negro Dialect unless he wanted to but what Harry Reid forgot to say is that Obama would try to use the civil rights movement as a backdrop for all of his campaign rhetoric.....
I said it then it is very dangerous for a person to do that but yet Obama gets away with it with no question.
Once again, the incredible double standard, pimped by the main stream press. Separation of church and state only applies to white Baptist churches. Seems that only one logical step remains ...mandatory tithing to the church of the government's choosing.
HELP SCOTT DEFEAT THE OBAMA SOCK PUPPET!!
(stole this from another FReeper, but bears repeating)
People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank! http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/phone-calls-for-freedom-call-1?commentId=2600775%3AComment%3A1891491&xg_source=activity
Anyone Anywhere Contribute! https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown
Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.
If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.
Needed; military and retired law enforcement VFW and police organizations etc to monitor polls- prevent the voter fraud theyre plotting right now. Video tape everything; document everything; prosecute the perpetrators. http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3599
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The black urban churches are indecent. Rev Wright proved it
Is it decent to throw people into jail, or fine them, if they don’t get health insurance? C’mon, libs, answer that one.
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