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Obamacare: The Hate Can’t Be Cured
The New York Review of Books ^ | April 22, 2013 | Garry Wills

Posted on 04/24/2014 10:56:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: kcvl

Short books for a short mind.


21 posted on 04/25/2014 1:09:13 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even if Obama are provided benefit to a majority of Americans not at the expense of the others, it would still be repugnant because it puts healthcare under the control of the state. That will not change because some people benefit.


22 posted on 04/25/2014 1:27:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slavee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He made the mistake of thinking that facts matter when a cult is involved>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, a cult of freedom, which created a nation and wrote the greatest national document in history, The Constitution of The United States of America.

These Coercive Utopians can ram all of the “false facts” and “lies” they want down the throats of Americans, but the cult of freedom will never die without a fight.

The translation should read: “ Obama Propaganda Fails to hoodwink America into accepting Obamacare.”


23 posted on 04/25/2014 1:36:53 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't like someone else making your choices in what medicine and treatments you can or cant have?

How is this ANY DIFFERENT than PROHIBITION?

We haven't been free to choose what and how for over a hundred years now!

24 posted on 04/25/2014 1:58:15 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The dems assured the demise of 0bamacare by the way they “passed” it.

It will not stand. No sir.


25 posted on 04/25/2014 2:50:19 AM PDT by Principled (Obama: Unblemished by success.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gary Wills is a perpetually self righteous lefty geek. Truth is an inconvenience to him. He is Walter Duranty redux


26 posted on 04/25/2014 3:36:59 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Garry Wills-idiot!


27 posted on 04/25/2014 4:03:45 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Ah, still clinging to the opiate of the masses, are we? To the camps with you, bud!


28 posted on 04/25/2014 4:07:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jimmy Valentine

I was at a non profit organization dinner last night seated across from a Harvard professor. He pontificated on the success of Obamacare. I responded with facts including my own situation — cancelled private insurance policy, 51% increase in premium to get an ACA compliant private policy with less coverage, finding the closest bronze plan on the exchange offering less coverage and even higher premiums than the private substitute.

After a few minutes of back and forth dialog in which repeated the White House talking points about the 8 million signups and all of the people who now had access to medical care, he realized he was confronted by someone armed with facts who would night yield. He then dismissed me say, “You are an outlier. The noise level from the GOP has stopped so the ACA must be working. You can afford to pay the higher premiums so you should just accept that you are an exception and move on.”

I asked if if it occurred to him the noise level may have subsided because 1) the captive media was supporting the president by not reporting the reality of the situation in the general population and 2) Republicans had gone quiet waiting to beat the drum again closer to the election when people on employer plans get hit with huge premium increases. He gave me the strangest look and then turned to talk to someone else.


29 posted on 04/25/2014 4:08:19 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ha! Gotta catch me first!


30 posted on 04/25/2014 4:16:25 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Hugin

Sure hope so.


31 posted on 04/25/2014 5:17:36 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I hope I never have to associate with such a moron.

He has everything exactly backwards. The evidence he speaks of, in each case, has been disproved many times. It is he & his ilk who clings to AGW, gun bans, & Obamacare despite a multitude of proof they are wrong.

How will this country/world survive when 50%+ of the people are fundamentally WRONG?

32 posted on 04/25/2014 5:22:32 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gary Wills forgot to mention that food stamps create jobs, that the Chevy Volt will cool the sun, and that improved cow farts will halt continental drift. Communists think out of the box—and out their minds.


33 posted on 04/25/2014 5:29:44 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: Smokin' Joe
"I’m not going to toss aside eternity to make some damned Liberal happy." --Smokin' Joe

Anyone need a ready-made tag line? This would be a good one.

34 posted on 04/25/2014 5:35:31 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: pallis

Seriously, the main driving reason that leftists want to impose socialism on us, not only in the medical arena, but all facets of life,

is to punish those whose decisions resulted in a comfortable and successful life, with a house, family, cars, insurance, climate control, and entertainment.

You see that with the popularity of this latest Marxist book that calls for the elimination of above average salaries.


35 posted on 04/25/2014 5:41:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Soul of the South

Good for you! Facts are of no moment to these people. They never learn that the “ivory tower” is a prison of the mind not a refuge.


36 posted on 04/25/2014 5:54:37 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Rastus

Gary Wills is a leftwing leftover from the hate-Nixon era of the late 60’s. Completely predictable.

The New York Review of Books is so far left they make Mother Jones look center-right. Another Sixties leftover rag read only by Greenwich Village radicals sipping their Starbucks.

“Opposition to Obamacare is racist!” is all Wills needed to write, no article necessary.


37 posted on 04/25/2014 6:27:39 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

heh. What an ironic article. I kept having to remind myself that the author was accusing conservatives & not leftists. And using leftists as an example!
Wonder if he (the author) hears himself?
Nah.


38 posted on 04/25/2014 8:51:34 AM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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