Did anyone watch the press conference he held yesterday? I did, and I have a few thoughts:
1. Iran: I appreciated what he said with regards to universal rights. He charged their government to honor those rights that the citizens hold. America should not march in there with troops and “fix” the government, but I do believe we need to speak out against idiot dictators. Winston Churchill comes to mind as one who never backed down from speaking out against those creeps.
2. Healthcare: He continues to make it sound like the system is broken. The story he shared was nice, but fails to convince me that our system needs to be overhauled. The stats he keeps sharing about the tens of millions of people without healthcare are pretty lame. According to one of the CNN talking heads after the press conference, those stats include illegal immigrants and people who willingly choose to have no coverage because they don’t feel it is necessary. The head also claimed that, even if the government implemented a universal healthcare system, the number of Americans without healthcare would still be around 39 million.
3. We already have universal healthcare. It’s called medicare / medicaid, both of which get abused quite often.
4. I didn’t want to attack his personality in this post, but I have some good zingers to write if I did want to.
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I didn’t watch the press conference. We have CNBC on all day and I swear 50% of the time it’s Obama talking. I didn’t turn up my individual volume.
Interesting about the health care stats. I didn’t know that. Definitely puts a different spin on his thoughts.
I’d love to hear your zingers.
PS I hate the word verification. It looks like someone wrote some words on a paper, and then the paper got wet. All blurry. I can’t make out the stupid letters.
I didn’t watch the press conference, but it sounds like he used anecdotal evidence at times? I can’t stand it when people in power use anecdotal evidence to sell their points. Politicians do it all the time. It causes people to make emotional decisions.
He used anecdotal evidence to sell points, but refused to talk specifics about the plan. When asked about something specific in the plan, he merely said that first he wanted to talk about how badly health care needs to be reformed. Cue anecdotes.
As for keeping your health care if you like it, now he’s saying people were going to lose their health care anyways because its so expensive.
Obama makes me cringe.
And it’s all said and done with such condescension and contempt!
I also would like to hear your zingers. I am so, so frustated with this guy. I am to the point, like many people I know, that I cannot listen to this man any longer, I just quickly change the channel or mute the sound. Like the bumper sticker says, he talks alot but says nothing.
He has attempted to fix or create so many federal government programs in such a haphazard, rush-rush fashion, you know the outcome is filled with under the table deals that strip the US taxpayer of dollars and their freedom.
He just doesn’t get it. It is not his prompter reading skills that we want, it’s a honest passion and concern about a particular issue and how this honesty can inspire the country to better things.
He does not have it and he never will. He never did anything in his past to suggest otherwise. Never created a job, a product, a payroll, a profit. He is a talker, not a doer as my late father said. It is sad to say, America is in trouble. I pray we can recover from O’blah blah.
Man alive, this post read my mind. I love how Obama loves to cite Spain as his economic Guru (well, so far as the Cap & Trade issue) and Universal healthcare as the ideal band-aid. It sounds so pretty until you look at Spains reaction to cap & trade, and my homelands to having increasingly socialised health care. Eugh. Obama does my head in.