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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Hell's Bells, just reading this article made me want to keel over, much less listening to the entire 17+ minute ridiculousness spouted with nose in the air and head bobbing from side to side.
Paaa-uke.
That said, I finally have to ask: I keep hearing this line about insurance companies "dropping" patients because they got sick or "cancelling their policy right after they got sick." I have a hard time believing that happens -- at least the way TOTUS is portraying -- or, if it happens, that it's not some rare, rogue practice.
For one thing, I cannot imagine that, in a nation full of trial lawyers and up to Jupiter in regulation of the insurance industry already, insurers could do the above, period, or, two, do the above unless it were provided for somehow in the coverage limits on the policy. In which case, isn't that your bad for choosing the policy?
Can anyone splain this to me?
Ya got that right!
Many years ago we were vacationing in an exotic locale and decided to go to one of those dinner shows at the hotel just for grins.
About half-way through the show, the main entertainer starting repeating his schtick because he had sort of dozed off with his eyes open or whatever. He sang a song and told some jokes. Then he started up singing again, there was a little confusion in the band, but they caught up to him quickly. He was singing the same song he'd just sung, with all the "clap your hands, now" folks stuff and everything -- and then told the same joke afterwards!
At first I thought it was part of the act. But, no. He really was just going through the motions, lost his place without knowing it, and repeated himself.
Somehow the Obambi Wind-up Doll that went off on poor Doris reminded of that other showman today.
Exactly.
And if George Dubya Bush had EVER gone on like this, whooo-EEE.
One thing about Dubya: he kept it short and to the point. Even if he did say nuck-u-lar. Really, I never found anything the least bit wrong or offensive about “nuck-u-lar.”
And another thing about Dubya: if he said it, he meant it.
Gawd, I miss George.
They take pictures of Lindsay Lohan, too. So what, sez me.
Well said, my FRiend.
HONK IF I’M PAYING YOUR MORTGAGE will have to move over for HONK IF I’M PAYING FOR YOUR HEALTHCARE.
My goodness, these Tea Party are just so rude. "Is it wise, Mr. President?" WTH kind of question is that? And who gets named "Doris"? /s
Odummy is channeling his bbf Fidel now. He is going to talk the American nation to death like his pal in Cuba does.
Shouldn't that be:
"If I may be conclusively ingenuous, I'm against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution." - Eric Idle, ed. by FightinJAG
You’re good!
And the other stupid thing about this is that everybody got medical care whether they had insurance or not.
I saw that today on the back of a truck in St. Louis - I want one!
Yes, and the article says the Rats are counting on sending Obambi “out into the country” (that would be where you and I live) to sell this thing.
ROTFLMBO!!!!
"Hope all you want, but you didn't; all you did was try to baffle us with evasive bullsh!t."
I'm just saying...and saying...and saying...and saying...and saying...and saying...and saying...and saying...
Thank you.
...and in the end, said nothing.
Anyone got a video link on this? Text?
HONK IF I’M PAYING FOR YOUR HEALTHCARE.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Drudge: CHILL OUT, MR. PRESIDENT!
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