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Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being "over taxed" (???)
Washington Post ^ | April 2, 2010; 3:01 PM ET | Anne E. Kornblut

Posted on 04/03/2010 5:48:54 PM PDT by ksm1

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: cocainetalk; losingit; obama
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Teleprompter not working today? Or is the dude just losing it?
1 posted on 04/03/2010 5:48:55 PM PDT by ksm1
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To: ksm1

He is losing if, folks. He knows there is a military officer who is refusing to go to Afghanistan today, until Obama shows his Birth Certificate. Obama is a man running scared.


2 posted on 04/03/2010 5:51:50 PM PDT by Galtoid ( .)
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To: Galtoid

Losing it.


3 posted on 04/03/2010 5:52:06 PM PDT by Galtoid ( .)
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To: ksm1

That’s the kind of answer you give when you don’t have a clue what you are talking about.


4 posted on 04/03/2010 5:53:32 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: ksm1

That wasn’t read from a teleprompter. He gets long-winded when he’s off the prompter.


5 posted on 04/03/2010 5:54:45 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: ksm1
Redistribution is Theft III

6 posted on 04/03/2010 5:55:07 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Galtoid

Some people just talk in circles.

Obastard talks in spheres...


7 posted on 04/03/2010 5:55:46 PM PDT by antivenom (OBASTARD must become a "Half Term President" * Impeach the anti-Constitution Bastard!)
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To: ksm1

Probably both. The Dude has never had anyone question him with hard questions. The pressure is on and he dosen’t have the answers. Watch the next couple of months as the shepple
start to understand that they have been had. That woman’s question is only the tip of the iceberg of discontent!


8 posted on 04/03/2010 5:56:24 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: ksm1
Search.
9 posted on 04/03/2010 5:56:33 PM PDT by upchuck (Subjects to citizens to subjects in less than 250 years.)
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To: ksm1

Il Douche’ Jr. is in over his head


10 posted on 04/03/2010 5:56:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the all knowing/seeing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr. blessings be upon him.)
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To: circlecity

Is the transcript out there anywhere? The little I read in the Post story confirms for me that the man hasn’t the foggiest notion how insurance works and nothing but lies, fear, personal attacks, and generalities to fall back on.


11 posted on 04/03/2010 5:57:02 PM PDT by hometoroost (Proverbs 8:36 - All those who hate me love death.)
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To: antivenom

Hyperspheres.


12 posted on 04/03/2010 5:57:15 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: circlecity
Or that's the kind of answer you give when you are over-confident in your ability to explain to lesser beings the wisdom of the professor class.

He assumed the world would hang on his very word (however trivial)...classical "pathological narcissism"!!!

13 posted on 04/03/2010 5:58:20 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Lawless...with all power, signs and lying wonders")
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To: hometoroost

Ya, you’d like to think the pres_ent of the United States knows the difference between collision and liability insurance, but such is not the case.


14 posted on 04/03/2010 5:58:21 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: ksm1
misapprehensions

Hmmm.
15 posted on 04/03/2010 5:58:52 PM PDT by visualops (Freepin' on my Pre!)
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Loosing it?

One cannot loose what one has never had.

The Obamaloon unit is not smart folks.

He is a prime example of a quota kid. Name something he’s written. Name an idea (not even an original one) that he can state without the prompter.

You want smart? Try Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams.

Any could trounce the loon in a debate with 9/10ths of their brain tied behind their back.


16 posted on 04/03/2010 5:59:35 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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"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 ...

A whole lot of misinformation?! Obviously by democrats ultimate goal of control over 100% of all wealth we may not be over-taxed, but in my state tax freedom day doesn't come until April 15th! That's 3.5 months out of 12 that is spent paying nothing but taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/

17 posted on 04/03/2010 6:00:57 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Happiness doesn't come from owning something; it comes from being a part of something)
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To: ksm1

I’m at about 50% taxation taken from me and my family and at best we are at about the top 10% for income (far closer to 10% than the top 1%), and I would say any more taxation and it puts us negative and merely taxes Peter and takes from Paul.


18 posted on 04/03/2010 6:01:21 PM PDT by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: hometoroost

Yes sir you just described liberals in general.


19 posted on 04/03/2010 6:02:15 PM PDT by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: tutstar

read later


20 posted on 04/03/2010 6:02:41 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off.)
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