Posted on 09/10/2009 7:21:43 PM PDT by jazusamo
"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.
To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.
Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch? Some people probably did and the true believers in the Obama cult may still believe the President, instead of believing either common sense or budget experts.
Even those who can believe that Obama can conjure up the money through eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" should ask themselves where he is going to conjure up the additional doctors, nurses, and hospitals needed to take care of millions more patients.
If he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the United States can be expected to produce what government-run medical care in Canada, Britain, and other countries has produced-- delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decisions by bureaucrats.
Obama can deny it in words but what matters are deeds-- and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds-- whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through Congress, or how his administration was not going to go after CIA agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists.
President Obama has also declared emphatically that he will not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations-- while telling the Israelis where they can and cannot build settlements and telling the Hondurans whom they should and should not choose to be their president.
One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true, and instead giving your full attention to what is required by the audience and the circumstances of the moment, without letting facts get in your way and cramp your style. Obama has mastered that art.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing. That is the core of Barack Obama's medical care plan.
President Obama tells us that he will impose various mandates on insurance companies but will not interfere with our free choice between being insured by these companies or by the government. But if he can drive up the cost of private insurance with mandates and subsidize government insurance with the taxpayers' money, how long do you think it will be before we have the "single payer" system has he has advocated in the past?
Mandates by politicians are what have driven up the cost of insurance already. Politicians love to play Santa Claus and leave it to others to raise prices to cover the inevitable costs.
Politicians have driven privately owned municipal transit systems out of business in many cities, by simply imposing costs and restricting the fare increases needed to cover those costs. The federal government can drive out private insurance the same way that local politicians have driven out private municipal transit and replaced it with government-run transit systems.
Barack Obama's insistence that various dangerous policies are not in the legislation he proposes sounds good but means nothing. Unbridled power is a blank check, no matter what its rationale may be. No law gave the President of the United States the power to fire the head of General Motors, but TARP money did.
When there are "advisory" panels on what treatments to approve and the White House's existing medical advisor has complained of Americans' "over-utilization" of medical care, what does it take to connect the dots?
"To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.
Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch? Some people probably did and the true believers in the Obama cult may still believe the President, instead of believing either common sense or budget experts."
“Hubris-laden charlatans” was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.
To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone’s intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.
Did we really need CBO experts to tell us that there is no free lunch?
Sowell has no peers.
One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true, and instead giving your full attention to what is required by the audience and the circumstances of the moment, without letting facts get in your way and cramp your style. Obama has mastered that art.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe.
Dr. Sowell sees obama for the glib talking con man he is. Hopefully an overwhelming majority of voters soon will as well.
Joe Wilson was right.
This man is a genius. He articulates ideas better than most.
That nails it. Obama is trying to convince the public that medical care will be free. It will be paid for by corporations, insurance companies, and the government. Wheeee, we, the consumers, won't have to pay!
I guess if people can believe that the words "Hope & Change", with no policies that give cause for hope or positive change, will make the world better, they can believe in "free" health care.
He's almost 80 years old!
I had no idea!!
I hope I'm 1/20th as sharp when I'm that age.
I hear you. My dad is Obama’s man all the way. Did your brother really call you a racist?
Correct...Obama is trying to pull off the biggest scam ever on the people of this country and far too many are falling for it.
BTTT!
In so many words. He said that I was telling him about Obama was racist. His head really would have exploded, had we been in the same room when I read that, because I laughed right out loud.
Yeah, it's pretty sick that this crap even goes on in "the great melting pot".
I remember when I was a kid, that dating a white girl was a huge taboo among black people. My eldest cousin once did that back in the late 60's, and his dad nearly disowned him for it. My uncle wasn't even a racist, per se, but he was definitely in step with the status quo of the time.
My dad and I both eventually married white women, and one of my nephews is married to a hispanic woman. Dad had to endure the disagreement of his parents over his marriage, but my generation is a lot more relaxed about it.
I dislike black racists as much as any other kind. I guess I'm just agnostic on the whole subject. It's just not important to me, in any way, shape, or form. I don't even think about it until other people force me to put my attention on it. Been that way my whole life.
Good for you, friend. It's really the way everyone should feel, especially if they're an American. We're the one people on this planet who should be the furthest from defining ourselves by race. After all, our motto is E Pluribus Unum.
Like you, my DNA is a total mixed drink. It's actually ridiculous for me to think of myself as anything other than simply an American - and that is exactly how I've felt my whole life. I admire and appreciate the cultural heritage of my family, but I don't allow it to define me, personally.
If I did, I'd be a Gaelic speaking, kilt-wearing dude with an afro, living in a teepee. LOL
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