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Title: Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'
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Big Government
URL Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44 ... s-17-minute-2500-word-res.html
Published: Apr 5, 2010
Author: Anne E. Kornblut
Post Date: 2010-04-05 04:55:08 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: idiot, stupid, dunce, dummy, Democrat, Barry
Views: 176
Comments: 4
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"). Always fond of lists, Obama ticked off his approach to health care -- twice. "Number one is that we are the only -- we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance," he said. A few minutes later he got to the next point, which seemed awfully similar to the first. "Number two, you don't know who might end up being in that situation," he said, then carried on explaining further still. "Point number three is that the way insurance companies have been operating, even if you've got health insurance you don't always know what you got, because what has been increasingly the practice is that if you're not lucky enough to work for a big company that is a big pool, that essentially is almost a self-insurer, then what's happening is, is you're going out on the marketplace, you may be buying insurance, you think you're covered, but then when you get sick they decide to drop the insurance right when you need it," Obama continued, winding on with the answer. Halfway through, an audience member on the riser yawned. But Obama wasn't finished. He had a "final point," before starting again with another list -- of three points. "What we said is, number one, we'll have the basic principle that everybody gets coverage," he said, before launching into the next two points, for a grand total of seven. His wandering approach might not matter if Obama weren't being billed as the chief salesman of the health-care overhaul. Public opinion on the bill remains divided, and Democratic officials are planning to send Obama into the country to persuade wary citizens that it will work for them in the long run. It was not evident that he changed any minds at Friday's event. The audience sat politely, but people in the back of the room began to wander off. Even Obama seemed to recognize that he had gone on too long. He apologized -- in keeping with the spirit of the moment, not once, but twice. "Boy, that was a long answer. I'm sorry," he said, drawing nervous laughter that sounded somewhat like relief as he wrapped up. But, he said: "I hope I answered your question."
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#1. To: Client 9 (#0)
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Why not just post the goddam answer so we can decide for ourselves instead of being told what it was? I will say that you drunk post better than your pal Boofer. He can't even cut and paste correctly.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
Fact is, he filibustered a tax payers question, and never did answer it. He's so in love with the sound of his own voice its frightening.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Chuckles....hold yer yapper there ya little poodle:):)....17 minutes and 2500 words? How's about you figure out that ummmmmm......wellllll.....maybe only one or 2 losers such as yourself have either the interest or the requisite 17 free hours a day you have to bother following along? Snort.....bwwwwaaaahahhhhaaaa!!!
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. And the latest Eisteinian revelation from LF's resident Barack poodleboy...AKA Admiral Dwarf who has "shot at living things"...."Yeah, and Oswald was a right winger, too. He was... war posted on 2010-03-22 20:12:36
And didn't even use a teleprompter... ;)
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
#3. To: Dwarf (#1)
Why not just post the goddam answer so we can decide for ourselves instead of being told what it was?
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
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