“Yes we can” . . . . President Obama said during his campaign . . . but two years later that promise has been amended to . . . “but it’s not going to happen overnight.”
It was Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ that labeled Obama “The Dude” because Obama defended National Economic Council director Larry Summers saying he did, “a heckava job.”
“You don’t want to use that phrase, Dude”, Stewart responded, alluding to former President George W. Bush’s infamous use of the same compliment.
Stewart later said the slogan should be modified to “Yes, we can – but . . . “
Although being the first President to appear on a comedy show, Obama was reaching out to the youth vote trying to salvage, to some degree, the mid term election and said, “We have done some things that people don’t even know about . . . “
Stewart interrupted and said, “You’re preparing a surprise party for me?”
There was audience laughter, but Obama was serious in defense of his administrations’ policies over the past two years.
And no comment by Obama was more true than, “We have done some things that people don’t even know about . . . “ That was certainly true in health care reform, for even the administration doesn’t know what it did, because it didn’t read the bill.
I think that comment is more transparent than any rhetoric Obama has ever delivered to the American people, because there are more surprises in Obama’s bag of ‘things that people don’t even know about . . . ” especially Obamacare.
Within the past few weeks checks in the amount of $250 were sent out by Health and Human Services to seniors that fell in the doughnut hole.
There was a lot of ballyhoo about how Obama was going to eliminate the doughnut hole; many thought it would take place this year.
No, those in the hole got a check for $250. Obamacare doesen’t go into full effect until 2014.
A female senior citizen here in Florida received her check, refilled a prescription for an anti-hypertensive for 90 pills and it cost her nearly $200 and that was for a generic substitute. She’s got $50 left of Obamacare money for two months with several more prescriptions to fill.
Obama accepted a deal by the pharmaceutical industry of a contribution to his health care reform for $800 billion over 10 years.
He accepted that deal with the proviso that the government would not interfere with price increases during this period. Meanwhile price increases are already taking place within the pharma industry by an increase of 20%; by 2020, $800 billion will look like petty cash to the pharmaceutical industry with the increase in the customer base and the increase in prices for prescriptions.
More surprises? You bet.
There are now some 20 states suing the government on Obamacare.
This fall the health care reform will eliminate lifetime limits on how much insurers will pay to cover claims in a policy.
There will be no more dropping of individuals, or recision when an expensive illness results in big claims.
There will be no co-pays or other cost-sharing for preventive care, such as immunization or mammograms.
There will be the right to include children up to age 26 on family policies, whether they are dependent or not.
And, there will be no more refusals of policies to children with pre-existing conditions.
The government is enforcing people, with a penalty if they don’t take this insurance, and the insurance companies are already raising rates.
What is left, because the people will not be able to afford the price increases of health insurance and prescription costs? Obama’s Marxism. Government control of health care, yes death panels, and a level of health care that will not compare to what we have been used to.
This is but one example of Obama’s policies and, “some things that the people don’t even know about,” that he is proud of and touts.
The mid-term election on November 2 is about stopping Obama in his tracks as step number one. To stop the direction in which he is taking this country, eroding the constitution and propagating as a disciple the philosophy of Alinsky, Cloward & Pivin and a Marxist agenda.
If you haven’t yet voted, this election is not about the candidates, not even their qualifications; it is about stopping a movement that is taking this country in the wrong direction, a direction that our founders did not envision for the United States and to make Obama a one-term president as step two in 2012.
Yes, God Bless America in your vote – for all the right reasons, not the hidden ones.




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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWas Nixon a Marxist? His proposed health care plan was more liberal than Obama’s. If the democrats didn’t block it we would long since have had a “socialized” plan and think nothing more of it than we do Social Security or Medicare.
You insist on this death panel nonsense which is complete fabrication. The wonderful health care we presently enjoy is bankrupting the country. Can you understand that? If you’re concerned about seniors and death panel fiction how will you feel when the new Republican majority in the House attempt to place restrictions on Medicare benefits that you now enjoy? We have to address entitlements, but don’t complain when it hits home.
Let me just finish up your previous article. What you’re trying to scandalize is political deal making. How shocking, politicians actually do that?
One of your readers was surprised about my comment concerning the popularity of Bill Clinton. Even though I believe he was one of our better presidents I was merely stating fact. A recent poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal/NBC News and which appeared in Politico confirmed he was the most popular politician in America. If you ever attended a rally in which Clinton appeared you would get a sense of that popularity, if you could get in. I respect your readers feeling about the moral issue but I try to live in the real world, with all its warts, than live in some fairy tale Sound Of Music. I really was attempting to show my intolerance to hypocrisy. Bill Clinton’s problem is between him and his family. Let them work it out. I like to think I’m a pretty decent person, but far from perfection. When I reach that state I’ll judge others sexuality which means maybe in the next life. Harding had a mistress living in the White House; FDR had a mistress while in the White House; Eisenhower had an affair while he was Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in London; we all know about JFK. Enough of a list? I could go on.
There is much more of your previous articles that require comment but not now. I’m not sure but did you criticize Clinton concerning the USS Cole? Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the architect of the attack, was captured in The United Arab Emirates and placed in CIA custody. He was one of three detainees who were water-boarded. He has been held at Camp 7 at Guantanamo since September, 2006.
I see The Giants just beat Texas. Poor Bushes can’t get a break.
Oh yes, Alinsky, Cloward and Piven, Marxist agenda. Scary.
Cloward and Piven. Didn’t they open for Henny Youngman?
Hey, Norman that was pretty good. Yes the Giants won. And I am proud of them, they made the World Series look like batting practice with a pitching staff unequaled.
Let’s see where do I begin with some of your comments that cover the spectrum of politics?
I guess I might begin by stating a fact: Americans are politically to the right of center – not the left.
Obama is a left wing scary liberal. Yes, I choose to label him a Marxist because he proposes policies that do represent Alinsky, yes and those others from Columbia, which represent the redistribution of wealth.
In our Democracy that was founded on small government, not big government, that fosters capitalism, I don’t happen to believe this is a direction in which Americans want for our country.
If it is, and that’s what Obama represents, as an American, he is not my type of leader.
Today will be a referendum on Obama, the people will speak and I hope they are as intelligent as I think they are.
Only yesterday, Obama backtracked in a political comment he apparently made in the heat of this mid-term election when he called Americans ‘enemies’. Oh, I know he was talking about his opponents – Republicans; but are they not Americans? Or, should they be characterized as ‘enemies’?
Obamacare is but one example of big government. There isn’t one policy of his two years in office that doesn’t represent a Marxist trend.
Let’s examine all aspects where government has been involved in a take over. I don’t think you want to discuss the Post Office or the railroads nor most recently the stimulus package in which we are about to infuse more taxpayer money, that has failed to provide jobs or improve the economy.
Yes, I hear the alternative – “If we didn’t do all of this we wouldn’t have been able to avoid a depression.”
We really don’t know this – do we?
Do not glibly dismiss the ‘death panel’ comment with respect to Obamacare. It is already happening, how else can he cut costs?
If you don’t believe there will be a formula for approved tests, treatments and procedures on the basis of age and longevity you are living in the world of Obamacare naivety.
Now you seem to have an obsession with the respect of Clinton and polls that suggest he was a great president. I don’t happen to think so, although he did balance a budget for which I give him credit.
However, you defend his frailties as a human being, comparing them to we the people, or even former presidents.
Do you think that is right? Does this represent what a leader of this nation should have as a qualification because it has happened before? And, is it a distraction to a President’s elected responsibility?
Now so far, I believe President Obama is focusing on his job. I just happen to believe he is screwing around with our democracy.
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