Obama on Health Care Reform: ‘This Is Our Moment’

Yes, it will be an important difference to the lives of their constituents — the constituents who, polls have shown, are against these half-baked bills — by adding taxation and debt to them and their children.
When has government EVER done something better and cheaper than the private sector?

Better grab as much power as they can and socialize America as fast as they can.
Their power will be gone in 2010.

I don’t know why people are so anxious to give health insurance companies the right to continue to rob their patients. We elected Obama and the Democrats to do the job, and now the Republicans are crying. You lost, we won. Get over it.

We should all keep our cool and put things into perspective. We know that Mr. Obama is one of worst President we’ve ever elected. But there’s currently no one, especially Mrs. Palin, who is better than him.

Hey Barrie, how does it feel to be a useful idiot? “We Won”, you’re the type of moron the libs just love. You are who they’ve been waiting for.

Even if the House passes the bill it still has to work it’s way through the Senate…it will be a goner! This bill is unconstitutional and if passed will be challenged in the courts and that is why Obama is eager to get another lib on the Supreme Court bench!! Have no fear…the Dems are done in 2012!!That is, if Acorn stays out of it!!

Barrie- why are you trying to speak for everyone. Im an independent and im not for it and im sure there are alot of dems that oppose this bill. So why dont you just say Barrie is for it and quit trying to speak for others.

“this is our moment”…the moment when millions of hearts and minds turned against the liberal left, the moment when the American people decided en masse that enough is enough, the moment when millions of young voters grew a bitter heart towards politicians. the moment when we see the liars that they are… the moment when congress and the POTUS began to lose their jobs…the moment when the press began to come out of their slumber….the beginning of the end for this socialist regime.

Hey Barrie, how does it feel to be a useful idiot? “We Won”, you’re the type of moron the libs just love.
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Juvenile name calling as intelligent political discussion.

“….the beginning of the end for this socialist regime.”
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Nonsense, that is an extremist point of view.
The truth of the matter is given a chance to vote Democrats OUT of Congress within the last week, voters actually voted Democrats INTO Congress – in BOTH Congressional seats up for election.
In fact the voters booted the Republicans out of one seat and voted in a Democrat there.
You have to remember, a majority of Americans have consistently supported a public option.

“If policy makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable then perhaps the same mind-set applies to others.
What may they feel about the elderly person who may not have a whole lot of productive years left?” Sarah Palin
We know obama’s feelings about children produced from unwanted pregnancies–they are a punishment. His words

Yes Obama, this is your moment to sock it to the people. You want us to pay, through the nose, for lousy healthcare, but you guy and Pelosi will have “private” health insurance.

Isn’t funny those who have jobs, homes & medical coverage are the one’s that are complaining? I’m one of the lucky one’s, I have a great job with medical insurance that covers my wife, 3 kids & myself. If anyone gets sick all we do is call our doctors and make an appointment pay our $20 co-pay and see the doctor.
But just have a need for a MRI, surgery, or any thing that requires to go in the hospital. Then that’s when the fun begins! That’s right, the insurance company decides what medical services you really need. They do is try all the can to deny coverage for treatment a doctor orders. Get sick, loose your job have pre-existing health issues, what do you do?
But then again to the right wing, tea party, conservatives anti-healthcare reform gang it’s all good. They’re suppose to believe in god and be true Christians and live by the bible. I’m not a religious person, I lot my faith years ago as watched the very one’s using god and the words of the bible to justify their hate and bigotry for their fellow man.
Unlike republicans I care for those that are struggling, my heart goes out to that mother with a sick child needing a organ, chemo or just a simple earache. Just take a minute and ask yourself “What would Jesus do”?

Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a [Sacramento] Bee review has found.

George W. Bush visits wounded soldiers at Ft. Hood.
Barack H. Obama relaxes at Camp David.
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President Obama visited wounded troops on Friday. He and the First Lady will be in Ft. Hood on Tuesday.
Oh, you want to talk about Bush now?
We all remember President Bush’s very callous and crass on camera comment about ‘on to victory’ now watch me hit this golf shot’ – while our troops were putting their lives on the line.

Lucky One- talk is cheap. Why dont you go to the soup kitchens and dontae your time, open your house and let people less fortunate move in to help the poor or donate half of your salary to the medical clinics.

Isn’t funny those who have jobs, homes & medical coverage are the one’s that are complaining? I’m one of the lucky one’s, I have a great job with medical insurance that covers my wife, 3 kids & myself. If anyone gets sick all we do is call our doctors and make an appointment pay our $20 co-pay and see the doctor.
But just have a need for a MRI, surgery, or any thing that requires to go in the hospital. Then that’s when the fun begins! That’s right, the insurance company decides what medical services you really need. They do is try all the can to deny coverage for treatment a doctor orders. Get sick, loose your job have pre-existing health issues, what do you do?
But then again to the right wing, tea party, conservatives anti-healthcare reform gang it’s all good. They’re suppose to believe in god and be true Christians and live by the bible. I’m not a religious person, I lot my faith years ago as watched the very one’s using god and the words of the bible to justify their hate and bigotry for their fellow man.
Unlike republicans I care for those that are struggling, my heart goes out to that mother with a sick child needing a organ, chemo or just a simple earache. Just take a minute and ask yourself “What would Jesus do”?
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Jesus would have quit the Republican party and damned the right wing years ago.

tierra…Guess that puts you on a higher plane than the rest of us, being the speaker for Jesus and all……….

tierra…Guess that puts you on a higher plane than the rest of us, being the speaker for Jesus and all……….
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“Jesus would have quit the Republican party and damned the right wing years ago.”
Heh, it’s my educated guess. If you’ve got a better idea of what Jesus would think, bring it on.

“Jesus would have quit the Republican party and damned the right wing years ago.”
Heh, it’s my educated guess. If you’ve got a better idea of what Jesus would think, bring it on.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 7, 2009 7:33:27 PM
Absolutely He would have. I’m sure His taste is more the liberal wing where abortion and gay marriage are okie-dokie. Unfortunately for Jesus, the liberals don’t need Him though. You already have Obama. Glory…

regardless of the bill they pass we are going to have to deal with this just be prepared

That “shout out” before mentioning the dead at Ft. Hood was eerie in the extreme. Something a bit off about this guy. Weird.

“abortion and gay marriage”
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You think this would have been Jesus’ big concern as he looked around the planet? And all the death and destruction, the extinction of species his Father created, the pollution of the waters his Father created . .. the hatred embodied in the right wing and so-called Christians in this society? The tens of thousands killed and maimed in the attack on Iraq? The filthy rich and the impoverished living side by side? The greed, the waste . .. and so on?
Posted by: tierra | Nov 7, 2009 7:56:16 PM
Please, tierra, you’re making me tired. YOU were the one who took the shot at the Republicans and wanted to bring Jesus into the argument. I’m simply pointing out the ignorance on the liberal side. All of the things you listed above are the faults of EVERYONE. Liberal, conservative, whatever the case may be. Actually we should ALL be thankful God’s wrath hasn’t been unleashed yet. But I’ll say this, and then I’m outta here… people complain more and more about how horrible this world is. The death, destruction, hatred, immorality, etc. Yet these same people want to take God out of EVERYTHING. We no longer have the Pledge of Alligence in school, no Christmas plays, no Easter references, and the list goes on. Horrible things occur and people rush to church and pray and ask Him to make everything better. But how can God do that? He isn’t allowed here anymore.

Stop and think for a minute that private health care insurance companies generally realize a 2% profit annually. Now here comes the government telling private health care how to run their business or should I say to run themselves out of business. If the liberals care so much for the people they would partner with Private Health care to hammer something out that can work and not break the back of the economy. Tell me after they take 500 billion from Medicare/Medicaid, which hardly pays for anything now, how are seniors on a fixed income going to afford their supplemental insurance which will no doubt triple (what one meal every other day now..and that isn’t cruel??). One last thought…did you notice that Pelosi’s bill allows congress to have private health care..hmm I guess not good enough for them to go on the public option…so whose the fool?

The Job Report: Another month, another drop in payrolls. Will it ever occur to our leaders in Washington that what they’re doing isn’t working — and may actually be damaging our economy? News that the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2% in October, its highest level since 1983, as the economy shed 190,000 nonfarm jobs, underscores the spectacular failure of the so-called fiscal stimulus to stimulate anything other than economic misery.

Even if the job saving numbers posted by the Obama administration from the stimulus legislation were real, that total is much less than the number of Visa issued to foreign workers to work in the U.S. since Obama came to office.

Doesn’t matter whowants a public option and who doesn’t: a public option will not pass in the Senate and will not become law.
If you are hopng to have other people insure you with their money while you skate, you had best change your plans. Go out and get a good policy. Take care of yourself and your family.
It may require some hard work and sacrifice, but you’ll feel better about yourself. Just think: you don’t have to be a serf if you don’t want to.

“In fact they voted Democrats INTO Congress in BOTH Congressional elections – and in one case they booted the Republicans out of the seat.”
The Democratic Party will suffer major losses across the board in 2010. Count on it.

Indeed Obama is a bit off.
Also detached and disconnected.
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Seriously, compare him to the last President who in the face of BOTH World Trade Towers having been struck by planes, and the country under serious attack – continued to read the Goat story for 20 minutes. Just who exactly was a ‘little off’?

Bush continued to read to the kiddies while he collected his thoughts.
And within minutes he was already addressing the nation.
Obama had literally hours to prepare his remarks. And he decided shout outs and laughter was appropriate.
I would love to see Obama’s reaction had someone whispered in his ear about a terrorist attack. He would have been
yelling for TOTUS.
Or maybe he would have said it’s above his paygrade.

Obama’s advisers duped 53% of voters into believing he was a brilliant orator.
But in reality he says and does some pretty dumb things.

A British view:
In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. “I never thought I’d hear myself say it,” one Democrat told me. “But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something.”

A British view:
In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over . ..
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So much for the ‘British view’ and the Telegraph UK – try looking to America itself.
When American voters had the chance to vote Democrats OUT of Congress with the past week what did they do?
They voted Democrats INTO Congress in BOTH of the Congressional elections.
In fact they booted Republicans OUT of one seat and replaced them with a Democrat.
You can quote all your phony propaganda you want – the American people see through your manipulative nonsense.

From the 9/11 Comission:
The President was seated in a classroom of second graders when, at approximately 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: “A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.” The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis. The national press corps was standing behind the children in the classroom; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring. The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading. He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15….

Only the yokels still believe he knows what he’s doing.
Everyone knows that the debt with which he has saddled the country–and with which acknowledges he intends to saddle it henceforth– simply cannot be repaid.
As the current debt instruments come due in ten, fifteen or twenty years, how will the government pay them? What, pray tell, is the yokel’s-eye view on this fundamental question?

Mr President, “this is your moment”?
You can’t even supply the country with
enough H1N1 flu vaccine or for that
matter enough seasonal flu vaccine
and you want us to trust you with the
entire Healthcare System?
No Way!
Listen Up and Listen Good!
We the American People don’t want the
government messing up our Healthcare
System.
We want to keep what we have.
We want Tort Reform.
We want portability and we want to be
able to buy insurance across state lines.
We want those citizens who don’t
have coverage but want affordable
coverage to be able to get it.
We don’t want citizens to be denied
coverage due to pre-existing conditons.
We don’t want a dictatorial regime
telling us we Have to Buy Health
Insurance or face a stiff financial
penalty even if we can’t afford it.
We do not want a public option.
That will only drive out competitors
of the government plan and force all
of us into the Government Plan.
Finally if and your Party don’t
understand these things by now we
the people will make you understand
in the 2010 elections!

Sure Obama has inherited a mess and Bush added to the deficit. I get it. But to institutionalize a bureaucratic health care system on the people’s dime after Obama already quadrupling the deficit in just 8 months? I cannot support this.

We need this health care reform more than ever. Each year more and more Americans can’t afford the high premiums charged by the private health insurance companies. Each year more insured folks find out their insurance won’t cover their medical bills, as the insurance companies use a whole bag of tricks to not pay.
Great speech by the President. I agree completely that the Dems should realize that the Repubs are coming for their jobs in 2010 no matter how they vote on this bill. May all Dems and those Repubs with a heart and soul vote for this health care reform. Tens of thousands Americans dying each year because they can’t afford health insurance is too many.

Obama ran on health care reform and universal coverage . .. and it looks like he’s going to deliver.

Congratulations Dems!
You are one step closer to your dream.
Why you prefer less freedom I’ll never know–unless you like the government controlling your life.
Let us know how you like waiting eight hours in the doctors office–if you still have a doctor.

America–one step closer to being Venezuela.
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Not at all. American has already burned up most of its oil – Venezuela has lots.

Dear Lydia:
Can you please site your sources for us on the “tens of thousands of American’s who die each year because they don’t have health insurance?”
Because hospitals are required to treat anyone that goes to the emergency room.
Thank You.
We need this health care reform more than ever. Each year more and more Americans can’t afford the high premiums charged by the private health insurance companies. Each year more insured folks find out their insurance won’t cover their medical bills, as the insurance companies use a whole bag of tricks to not pay.
Great speech by the President. I agree completely that the Dems should realize that the Repubs are coming for their jobs in 2010 no matter how they vote on this bill. May all Dems and those Repubs with a heart and soul vote for this health care reform. Tens of thousands Americans dying each year because they can’t afford health insurance is too many.

You poor saps.
Because of your blind loyalty to Obama you can’t even see this isn’t about health care.
It’s a massive power grab by the government to make more people dependent on them.
Are you so needy that you want Obama and the government regulating your whole life?
Don’t worry though–it won’t last long.
In less than a year we will fundamentally change Congress.

Yea for the U.S.A!!!

“For any doctor … it’s completely a no-brainer that people who can’t get health care are going to die more from the kinds of things that health care is supposed to prevent,” said Woolhandler, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a primary care physician in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Does anybody know where I can see the President’s remarks today?

“Punishable by fines and incarceration like health insurance is trying be?”
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Insurance companies fine you (charge you extra) for being a smoker. Are you sure they don’t do that as well if you’re obese? It’s a definite health risk.

Thanks A

They have awakened a sleeping giant.
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You right wingers have been touting this line for weeks, but the real world disagrees . . .
When American voters had the chance to vote Democrats OUT of Congress with the past week what did they do?
They voted Democrats INTO Congress in BOTH of the Congressional elections.
In fact they booted Republicans OUT of one seat and replaced them with a Democrat.

“Not at all. American has already burned up most of its oil – Venezuela has lots.”
Your degree of ignorance on this topic (and essentially all other topics in which you weigh in) is simply staggering…

If there is justice in the world I hope small businesses will fire the Obama supporters first.
And I hope doctors will schedule the Obama supporters last. Let them wait months since Obamacare is what they wanted.
There are consequences for our actions.
And Karma is a bi**h.

This bill ,if enacted, will cut billions from Medicare at a time when the program is in dire straits.The Baby Boomer generation is now entering the Medicare program in increasing numbers.How can any politician say no to the AARP lobby when the chickens come home to roost and Medicare runs out of money?You can add that funding to the cost of this bill- the stated price is pure fantasy.If employers are mandated to provide insurance,we will see massive layoffs to get below mandated employee numbers.

The delusional and arrogant man-child thought health care reform could be crammed through in two weeks–back in July!
Surely with a supermajority and the media in his pocket it would be a breeze.
And now after months the 1st step has passed by a mere 5 votes. And poor Obama/Pelosi had to give up their dream of gov’t funded abortions on demand.
Maybe that’s why Nancy was crying.

Time to write a letter to the Chinese and tell them that you ar going to quit your job and live on the government dole. Let Obama and the rest of the idiots figure out how to borrow money for their pipe dreams when nobody will lend it to them. Oh don’t forget to write one to the Arabs to so they will know that if they keep buying T-bills nobody in this country is working and there is no revenue coming into the federal treasuary.

Dear President Obama:
You are the eleventh President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh’s, Hannity’s, O’Rellly’s and Beck’s who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

A True American Citizen
I agree with your letter and I would bet many others do too.
Obama scares me for all of the same reasons.
He knows his power runs out in 2010, and with it the dreams of dismantling America. So I think we are in for a bumpy ride until 2010.
The Constitution means nothing to the WH. And that is the saddest thing of all.

No worries, if they can make cuts to medicare, we can eliminate this health care in 2010 and in 2012. If we have to start paying into the system now, the next President can give our health care money back in 2013.

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“Dear President Obama:
You are the eleventh President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others…”
I agree with everything you wrote A True American Citizen.

Protocol, A True American Citizen
I would urge you both to try and not be so frightened and intimidated by right-wing propaganda. That ‘letter’ was one of the biggest servings of pure baloney I’ve seen recently.

DID MR TRANSPARENCY READ THETHE WHOLE BILL…PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME.

Yes We Can…
Yes We Can ruin America’s healthcare system.
Yes We Can bankrupt America.
Yes We Can ruin the economy.
Yes We Can …
Obama is nothing but a celebrity who likes to inflate his own ego. Our Moment?! If this wasn’t another one of his ego-enriching publicity stunts, he wouldn’t refer to it as such.

Yes this is our moment, to take over 1/6 of the economy, to redistribute the wealth from those who earned to those who have no ambition. Yes this is our moment to finally socialize our medical care. Now on to crap & trade lets grab the brass ring away from democracy and socialize the entire nation !!!

Shouldn’t America be about giving people rights, instead of taking them away?
By taking the Socialist idea of uniform healthcare and putting it in a Democratic society is like spitting on the Constitution, and saying everything our forefathers fought for was in vain.
By taking away my choice, you are taking away the very essence of my American heritage.
And Obama if you truly cared about the people of the country you are blessed to represent, you would care less about what the media thinks of you, and more about what the people think of you. When a bill passes and your public rating goes down by five percent, that’s a sign. when your egotistical self checks what people think of you on ABC, read this and know. Eventually the people will overcome.

Time for Obama to do something as president

I believe this President is trying to ruin the United States and he has the House of Representatives being led like lambs to the slaughter. I hope the health care bill dissolves in the Senate. I hope someone is going to stand up for the People of the United States.

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Social Security is bankrupt.
Medicare is bankrupt.
Medicaid is bankrupt.
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This is our moment when we plunge the United States into fiscal disaster on a national scale that will send tsunami shockwaves around the Earth.

I can not believe that the USA has allowed this to go on. What has happened to the government we knew even 10 years ago. I think in 2010 it is really time for a change if not sooner. Want to make the people happy, get the impeachment process going.