Posted on 01/13/2016 8:59:20 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
President Obama’s call for “a new national effort†to cure cancer during his State of the Union address on Tuesday seemed familiar to fans of Aaron Sorkin’s “West Wing†television show.
That’s because there was an entire episode in 2002 of the NBC show where the fictional president played by Martin Sheen made nearly identical comments.
On Tuesday, Obama said: “Tonight, I’m announcing a new national effort to get it done…For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.â€
During the “West Wing†episode “100,000 airplanes,†Sheen’s character, President Josiah Bartlett, wants to pledge curing cancer over the next decade during his annual address to Congress.
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Does L4B write any of his spittle? His speech writers are just as shallow as the TV sludge. Poor teleprompter, having to scroll through all that leftist swill ... and the leis. Oh, the hugh manatee.
I have long believed that the same people who wrote West Wing ghost wrote speeches for Clinton and Obama.
Excuse me?
If only Obama promised this in his first SOTU Speech, my Leukemia would have been eradicated by now and a few of our Friends would still be alive.
What took you so long El Presidente?
Obama, look, a squirrel...
That is all well and good as long a we realize one thing. Electing politicians and giving them money and power is something like a treaty with a potentially dangerous nation. It really doesn’t matter how in love we are with that politician.
We TRUST but we VERIFY. If the country violates the treaty, we sanction the country. We don’t sign a treaty and forget about it. In the same way, if the politician self-aggrandizes and unconstitutionally expands government, we THROW THE BUM OUT. We don’t elect politicians and then forget about it.
You and I have given that elected politician tremendous power to do a lot of damage which in many ways is in his own political self-interest to do. It is up to US to make it clear to these politicians that it is really in the best interests to keep their power and government small because if they don’t they get bounced. THAT is the ONLY language these yokels understand.
Obama should NOT joke about an effort to cure cancer, but he did, he appointed Joe Biden.
What a loser President.
On the first two pages, seventeen people approve of Trump being installed as a dictator:
That POS 0bama is the cancer . . .
Eff him.
So some dolt makes a comment and it is a pandemic?
It sure is. I don’t know why it can’t be fixed.
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