Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'

Washington post ^ | 4/2/10 | Anne E. Kornblut

[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").

[Typical_Whitey]

This is the weakness to exploit. "We are over-taxed as it is," Doris said bluntly" Confronted with that asseration the rantings and justifications start because he knows it cannot be debated he is going to tax us into obliteration.

[SkyDancer]

Good Grief! I hope nobody asks him how he’s feeling. He’ll launch into why we need health care for a half hour .....

[Oceander]

There is only one response, since the sole point of taxation now is to steal from those who can produce, to give it out free to those who choose not to, and that is:

[oldenuff2no]

So how does the anointed one know how much this lady pays in taxes????
Talk about a bunch of BS and political double talk.

[Outlaw Woman]

He is a delusional, demented dictator wannabe.

[R0CK3T]

But - what’s the word count when you subtract the uhh’s, ahhh’s, and umm’s.

Maybe 10?

[syriacus]

[Irish Eyes]

From the Washington Post no less. Maybe there is hope.

[Secret Agent Man]

Guess she hit a nerve.

I say anytime anyone gets to ask him a question start out with “Mr. obama, as we are being overtaxed already...”

[Doc Savage]

“I was waiting for you to shoot your mouth off Doris. We’ve been aware of you and your teabagger co-conspirators for quite awhile. Doris, I’m not only going tax you even more, I’m going to have the IRS stick a proctoscope up your lily-white ass and I’m going to make sure you and your family never see the light of day again. It’s creeps like you Doris that are preventing me from becoming dictator for life, and I’m not going to let you ruin my chance to convert this country into communist gulag!”

B.O.

[tet68]

The good thing about it is that no matter how much
he tries to explain (especially if he drones on and on
like this.) it still won’t change anyone’s mind since
they KNOW that they are bein over taxed from the get go.
The only ones he will convince are those already disposed
to believe that OTHER people aren’t taxed enough.
Frankly that is a shrinking number because even the
average joe can feel the pinch of what he has to juggle
after taxes. I don’t see the Ginsu President being able
to make that sale.

[FreeAtlanta]

Did TOTUS approve, or was TOTUS leading the ramblings?

[saganite]

Hugo Chavez would be proud. For some reason, dictators and dictator wannabe’s can’t seem to limit their verbosity. I guess they believe everyone hangs on their every word.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Typical pseudo-intellectual, elitist response

[FreeAtlanta]

So, there was a second independent thinker in the crowd of lemings....

[exnavy]

And when this overtaxation finally causes the collapse of the United States economy, and anarchy ensues, “woe be unto he that calls evil good”.

[Ladysmith]

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullship...

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[FrdmLvr]

That’s not taxes Doris. That’s wealth redistribution.

[Semper Mark]

"He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze."

Empty wagons rattle the most.

[Vendome]

LOL