Posted on 03/06/2010 5:15:21 PM PST by SmartInsight
WEDNESDAY'S health care rally was one of President Obama's finest hours. It was so fine it couldn't be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospital in one of the daytime soaps that refused to be pre-empted by the White House show.
At last he mobilized his rhetoric against a villain everyone could hiss - insurance companies. In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times.
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The men in white coats? Were they coming to take him away???
Yes I do. We have men and women dieing nearly every day there.
My Dad fought in WWII, put the flag back up on Corregidor when MacArthur retook “The Rock”, has a Bronze Star, my late husband’s uncle Ralph was a member of the original Merrill Marauders, late husband did his 4 year hitch in the USAF during Nam (Nam Era Vet), current husband retired as a Senior Chief, was on the USS Midway when that little piper cub with the Vietnamese pilot and his family landed on the Midway, was off the waters of Cuba during the Missile Crisis. NO way could I forget the men and women willing to lay their lives on the line for us.
FREEDOM AIN’T FREE. The words of Patrick Henry still ring in my ears more than 2 centuries later...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Reagan’s quote is just as good: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan
To bad we have so many politicians forgetting these words and deeds.
The choice is clear DumBO or America.
“In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times. ... Who have one of the lowest profit margins in industry.”
It’s a classic ruse of demagogues who seek to acquire power for themselves to fearmonger against scapegoats and concocted enemies.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - Henry Louis Mencken ...
“The G.O.P. would be able to argue this fall, not without reason, that the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress cannot govern. “
Imagine that. The future of American freedom rests on the disunity and incompetence of the Democrats in Washington.
Yes, because we have not heard from this man about a billion times too many already.
I have an idea!
How about he holds a Health Care Summit!??!!??
Wow he must’ve saw a different news conferance than I did. The one I saw made Obama look like a teen having a temper tantrum demanding that we play the way he wanted or he was stomping home with his toys!
The left and the Dems delude themselves. If this is somehow passed those who voted yes might be surprised that Americans probably won’t leave them alone unil they are driven from office.
Is their an up ? anywhere
It’s like the boy poking the tiger in the cage, he needs civil unrest and he’s inching toward it everyday.
Vote “down” on both the bill and his impotusency!!!
Oh, boy. This is whistling past the graveyard big time. The left is crazy if they think we'll forget this mess once they ram it through.
newly added traitors
Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 TN
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, WA
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN
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