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Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'
Washington post ^ | 4/2/10 | Anne E. Kornblut

Posted on 04/02/2010 5:24:56 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey

CHARLOTTE - Even by President Obama's loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy.

Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a "wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care" package.

"We are over-taxed as it is," Doris said bluntly.

Obama started out feisty. "Well, let's talk about that, because this is an area where there's been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I'm going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have," the president said.

He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer - more than 2,500 words long -- wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, "F-Map"). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as "FICA").

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To: Typical_Whitey

Sounds like Obama did “a little sidestep” from the movie Best little wh**e house in Texas.


41 posted on 04/02/2010 6:06:29 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Obama's vision for America...Green shoots and skittles, where pancakes grow on fritter trees.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Typical passive-aggressive response, if you ask me ... over talk the answer in order to bore the the opposition into submission.


42 posted on 04/02/2010 6:07:31 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: rlmorel

What tool did you use to create that image, actual Adobe or something else?


43 posted on 04/02/2010 6:07:38 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: Typical_Whitey
This is the weakness to exploit.

I presume you mean his weakness of going into long-winded nonsense answers to very simple questions, questions that most Americans want simple answers to.

To that I agree.

44 posted on 04/02/2010 6:09:13 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: Typical_Whitey

OBOZO really is a Moron on the scales of Castro and Chavez!
Only a Moron and a Mentally Insane Narcissist is able to answer an Honestbrief Question with a 17-18 Minute, 2500 Word Psychobabble Non-Answer! That is Freakin Scary and terrifying that this MORON has his Finger on the Nuclear Holocaust “RED” Button!! I pray there are many Generals that can stand and mitigate the Disasters are Armaggedddons
that can be caused by a Bonehead Despot!


45 posted on 04/02/2010 6:10:11 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Clock King

Just Photoshop...that is a hell of a picture by itself, though. Her face says it all.

The face of the zealot behind her mother completely creeps me out. The one with the camera right over her head.


46 posted on 04/02/2010 6:11:29 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: Typical_Whitey

47 posted on 04/02/2010 6:13:07 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: John-Irish

Correction!:

“he’s an ass.”

should be corrected to:

“he’s a stupid, communist, dictatorial, moronic “BIDEN” A**!”


48 posted on 04/02/2010 6:16:38 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

yes you’re right. He’s all that.


49 posted on 04/02/2010 6:17:25 PM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

“Quite frankly, I’m against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution.” - Eric Idle


50 posted on 04/02/2010 6:17:53 PM PDT by Textide
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To: Typical_Whitey

Long answers enable him to get fewer questions. In any subsequent answer he can also say, “as I said earlier...” and nobody will be able to call him on it. High school level debate tactics.


51 posted on 04/02/2010 6:18:25 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Typical_Whitey

I’m waiting for someone to ask this affirmative action sonofabitch ‘whom instructed him on implimenting the Cloward-Piven strategy and when does he believe it will be accomplished?’


52 posted on 04/02/2010 6:18:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

The stench of that pile of &*** on the floor must have been dizzying.


53 posted on 04/02/2010 6:19:45 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Typical_Whitey

Classic.


54 posted on 04/02/2010 6:29:40 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: MHGinTN
I’m waiting for someone to ask this affirmative action sonofabitch ‘whom instructed him on implimenting the Cloward-Piven strategy and when does he believe it will be accomplished?’

That would be great!

55 posted on 04/02/2010 6:33:23 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Typical_Whitey

She should’ve grapped the mike back and said “Yea well bla bla bla...I asked about whether it was a wise idea to tax us more?” and smiled.


56 posted on 04/02/2010 6:35:26 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: FreeAtlanta

WIFE BEATER ALERT

57 posted on 04/02/2010 6:42:34 PM PDT by bitt ("WE THE PEOPLE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE)
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To: VRWC For Truth; rlmorel

BRILLIANT


58 posted on 04/02/2010 6:46:14 PM PDT by bitt ("WE THE PEOPLE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE)
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To: Typical_Whitey

thank you, Doris.


59 posted on 04/02/2010 6:49:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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To: bitt

ROTFLMAO!


60 posted on 04/02/2010 6:49:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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