Obama back on the campaign trail, this time pushing health reform
I can’t recall seeing Barack Obama this animated and forceful since he took the oath of office. This looks like something from the closing days of the ‘08 campaign.
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Truth
March 8th, 2010
5:13 pm
You are drooling, Jay!
Kamchak
March 8th, 2010
5:15 pm
Teleprompter
I thought I’d get that out of the way early.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
5:22 pm
“Obama back on the campaign trail…”
And why not? It’s what he does best…
Haywood Jablome
March 8th, 2010
5:22 pm
the AM-radio/Fox News crowd’s whining chorus about “shoving it down our throats” is deafening. yeah, this bill has only been in discussions since the late 60’s.
with the help obama has gotten from the right, he shouldn’t shove it down their throats obama, he should shove it up their chutes.
Bud Wiser
March 8th, 2010
5:26 pm
Sounds like Jay’s been holding hands with Chris Mathews as they each get a little thrill run up their leg.
Well, it’s not a thrill, and it’s not running up your leg Bookman; it is Obowo as he drains himself on the American public, starting with his drooling minions in the media.
This alleged “meeting” in St Louis over health care is but another campaign stop.
You know, you’d think by now the Moron In Chief could have figured out, or been told, he won the election in 2008. It is time for him to govern, instead of force feed what he wants, as opposed to what America wants.
What a maroon.
Who is more stupid though – the leader over the precipice, or the idiots that follow him?
jefferson
March 8th, 2010
5:31 pm
If the “D’s will pass something, it will be easier to defend as this is what we are doing for you.
Paul
March 8th, 2010
5:32 pm
He brought David Plouffe back a few weeks back. Looks like he’s being listened to.
Good.
Haywood
[[this bill has only been in discussions since the late 60’s.]]
Nice to see we’ve moved past blaming Bush. But I think “blame Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, Bush” might be a bit of a mouthful.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Have A Drink On Us, obozo!
March 8th, 2010
5:36 pm
Yeah, he’s “animated” alright, dancing with the strings.
Shot down in flames, shot down in flames, ain’t it a shame, yeah, to be shot down in flames?
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
5:37 pm
PAUL–
What the h3ll…let’s blame the Bruin…he’s a lot closer at hand and is probably as much to blame as any of the rest…or maybe it’s the Baptists…Is Jay a Baptist?
@@
March 8th, 2010
5:37 pm
Obama back on the campaign trail? He never left it.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials reversed course Monday on a recently captured American suspected of being a member of al-Qaida, saying the man is not the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman, as they initially believed.
The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist network. But authorities later said it was a case of mistaken identity and that they have a different American in custody.–AP
DRAT!
Paul
March 8th, 2010
5:43 pm
josef nix
I’m not sure… but according to Jenifer, the Baptists are still in jail. So it’s probably safe to blame them.
“Admit nothing. Blame everyone.”
It’s the American way.
Dusty
March 8th, 2010
5:43 pm
Well, I got angry too early. Can’t repeat all that. Still disgusted. So Obama is animated! Whoopee! And next presidential election he will be terminated! And Bookman will be crying in his beer over in the Want Ads Department.
Jethro
March 8th, 2010
5:51 pm
This President and his cronies are so crooked it is not funny. Eric Massa gets pressured for voting no on bills like cap and trade and healthcare. Rahm calls this guy up and yells at him for not going along with them. That is not America, that is a disgrace.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
5:52 pm
My, my…won’t y’all just look at the stage management of the crowd in the background…not a hijab to be seen!!
@@
Sex? Them that can, does; them that caint, talks about it…
Dusty–
Left you a message downstairs…hrrrmph!
Paul–
“…blame the angels, blame the fates, blame the Jews and your sister Kate, teach your children who to hate…little wheel spin and spin, big wheel turn around and around…” –Buffy Ste. Marie
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
5:54 pm
Jethro–
Ole “Dead! Dead!” Rahmbo do have a temper…stay clear of his dinner knife, I’d advise Massa, that is if we can get him to leave the male staffers alone…
Mmm! I love the smell of a scandal in the morning! Smells like, uh, politics as usual?
Paulo977
March 8th, 2010
5:56 pm
Well Dusty sounds as though you are one of those ‘teapartiers’who just don’t want to come clean and state that they are pure unadulterated racists so they resort to attacking things like efforts to reform health care even though it would benefit the general public in many ways
@@
March 8th, 2010
5:57 pm
josef:
Them that can, does; them that caint, talks about it…
I was gonna say that earlier, but I quickly lost interest in “talking” about it.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
5:59 pm
PAULO–
16 posts in and the R card! FIRST!
And don’t go accusing Dusty of being a racist…what have YOU done for the Indigenous Americans?
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:00 pm
@@
Why do leftist do so much talking? Maybe because most are right handed? (ISH)
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Have A Drink On Us, obozo!
March 8th, 2010
6:05 pm
Dan Rather: ‘Articulate’ Obama Couldn’t Even ‘Sell Watermelons’…
ha haha aha ha ahahahahahaha, just sayin….
@@
March 8th, 2010
6:06 pm
One of those funny headlines.
Cops shoot dead man pointing imitation gun after he refuses orders to drop it
Death by rigamortis?
TnGelding
March 8th, 2010
6:06 pm
This was one of the few strong moments of the speech. I’d rather see more time in the Oval Office. He stammered and stuttered more earlier than I had ever witnessed. The bill(s) only need a few refinements to gain passage. The GOP has done an excellent case of misrepresentation.
md
March 8th, 2010
6:08 pm
I wonder how bankruptcy is going to help 30 million without insurance.
Are we cutting off the nose to spite the face??
300 million in dire need vs 30 million in dire need – hmmmm……………
TnGelding
March 8th, 2010
6:08 pm
Yeah, we’ve got that talking part down pat!
TnGelding
March 8th, 2010
6:10 pm
Big wheel keep on turning!
Dusty
March 8th, 2010
6:15 pm
josef,
Aincha heard “MASSA’s in De Cold Ground” according to Stephen C.Foster. ” Round de meadows am aringing. De sad and mournful song. While de mockingbird am singing,Happy as de day am long, Where de ivy is acreeping,.oer de mossy mound. Dare ol’ MASSA am asleeping. Sleeping in de cold cold ground.”
Oh well. Just the latest on Massa.
larry
March 8th, 2010
6:15 pm
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic?”
The irony, one guesses, is that Palin now views Canada’s health care system as revolting: with its government-run administration and ‘death-panel’-like rationing. Clearly, however, she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.
Officials at several hospitals in that area declined to give out information on patient visits.
Just another example of Republican hipocricy. Like ” I voted against the stimulus” but i will pose with the big check from the stimulus.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:19 pm
DUSTY
“…when Ole Missus lived, she lived in clover, and when she died she died all over…” –That song we’re not supposed to sing…
Left you one downstairs…got a new name for ‘im…Ista Possum…
Dusty
March 8th, 2010
6:20 pm
Paulo 977
I’m not a “teapartier”. I’m a “pork’n'peas” person. Go peddle your piffle elsewhere.
Southern Comfort
March 8th, 2010
6:20 pm
Ok, so by my count, we’ve had teleprompter, Obowo, Palin, moron, and racist. The only one missing is socialist. So who’s gonna throw that one out?
@@
March 8th, 2010
6:21 pm
I just watched the video, jay. That speech impressed you!!?!!
Does he really need a teleprompter to evoke passion? My gawd, he’s used those same words “in hundreds” of speeches about health care reform. You’d think he could remember ‘em by now.
He’s just a sad excuse.
If he were my choice, I’d sure expect better than ^^^ THAT. But you guys?
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:24 pm
SoCo
The workers control the means of production!
Paul
March 8th, 2010
6:31 pm
larry 6:15
[[Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.]]
You may have missed it from downstairs – seems HuffPo or whomever put that out left out a few key poionts – evidently Palin was oh, about six years old when she went to Canada for health care, and it was a few years before Canada even had their single-payer system.
I’m afraid this is gonna become the Progressive equivalent of “Hey! Didja hear Al Gore thinks he invented the Internet?”
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 8th, 2010
6:36 pm
Paul
**evidently Palin was oh, about six years old when she went to Canada for health care, and it was a few years before Canada even had their single-payer system.**
Now that’s funny.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:37 pm
Swamper…
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Dusty
March 8th, 2010
6:40 pm
Oh josef,
Now I’m singing BAD songs!! Sob! Left you a possum trail down stairs. I am off to eat CHICKEN!!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 8th, 2010
6:40 pm
The only one missing is socialist. So who’s gonna throw that one out?
Well, he is a Socialist. And a Black one at that. If he keeps on, all the beer will be on the taxpayer and I’ll be out of a job. I bet guvmint beer tastes real bad. And my healthcare will be gone too while Those People guzzle free beer and wait for the Dr.
And did you hear he’s a Muslim too that wasn’t born in the U.S. of A. and is in the White House illegally?
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 8th, 2010
6:41 pm
TnGielding
**The GOP has done an excellent case of misrepresentation.**
I’ll say. They even tricked enough Democrats to vote against it to endanger it’s passage, even with the nuclear option.
Southern Comfort
March 8th, 2010
6:42 pm
Thanks RC, I had forgotten all about Muslim.
Paul
That’s funny as hell. I wish I had thought of that one.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:43 pm
DUSTY
It tastes like possum!
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 8th, 2010
6:47 pm
Josef
Man, that would make a great book:
The Palin Chronicles, Tales from the far left about Sarah Palin.
What I see as being so funny about liberals that go after Sarah Palin, have they taken a look at the dingbat that is in line for the White House behind Obama and Biden? Nancy Pelosi is two heart beats from being the leader of the free world. If Biden and Obama would get hit, people would be swimming to get out of here. Mexico would be building a fence on their side.
F. Sinkwich
March 8th, 2010
6:48 pm
Yawn.
So our fearless leader delivers a “spell-binder” to SEIU brain-dead sycophants who cheer raucously at perfunctory introductions of bottom rung politicians. Is this going to change the minds of Americans who are actually going to have to pay for this travesty?
Nope.
How about those comments from Congressman Massa (lib Dem) today, Jay? Much more provocative and certain to generate a lot of posts.
You’re welcome.
Southern Comfort
March 8th, 2010
6:52 pm
DTS
That is scary for sure, but I’ve felt the same way about the past few administrations. None of them made me comfortable when looking at the line of succession. That was one of the reasons I was so happy that Cheney wasn’t out in public too much (although I thought it was like that movie “Dave” and he was in the basement of the White House on life support. But that’s another story for another day).
The only solution that I see for true health care reform is to make the basic health care system non-profit. If people want elective stuff like plastic surgery or something, let them pay for it. I couldn’t see myself trying to make a profit off of someone else’s health. That, to me, seems inhumane.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:52 pm
F Sinwich–
Dusty already told ya, Massa’s in de col’ col’ ground…
NIF
Pelosi? Don’t get me started on Jumpin Jackess! The idea of her in that office is just too depressing to even consider…
Glenn
March 8th, 2010
6:56 pm
Watch Glenn Beck tommorow at 5:00, if you are not a fan just tune in tommorow. Representative Eric Massa who has now resigned will be on for the full hour to tell of the corruption and the intimidation tactics of the Obama Administration. He is a Democrat by the way.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:57 pm
SoCo
In the more serious vein, and as you know I’m for free, universal health care, what you say:
“I couldn’t see myself trying to make a profit off of someone else’s health. That, to me, seems inhumane.”
is the crux of the matter. It’s why I keep using the phrase “moral compass…”
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
6:58 pm
GLENN–
Now THAT might be interesting enough to tune into…that is if I can bear that much of Beck…he just grates on my last gay nerve…
F. Sinkwich
March 8th, 2010
7:04 pm
josef,
Yep, a Congressman who resigned 2 hours ago with the inside story of Whitehouse beat-downs administered to get votes to pass a travesty is somehow not news nor worthy of discussion.
But Palin visiting a Canadian doctor when she was five or six years old is.
Awesome.
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
7:06 pm
Whoo-whee!
“…and there I was, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emmanuel…”
It don’t get no bewtter than this!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/08/massa_rahm_emanuel_would_sell_his_own_mother_for_votes.html
josef nix
March 8th, 2010
7:07 pm
JAY
Really, don’t you see the mene mene tekel that’s a’coming on this one?