Comments on: Obama speech preview

By: Baklava

Baklava — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:18:29 +0000

nyom wrote, “So far, so good for Obama — thus far he is selling it.”

Yep. And remember the experience Obama sold you on. He ran his own campaign! He ran something. You sell easily…

By: Obama’s “Very Special Episode” | curtis schweitzer (dot) net

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:02:02 +0000

[...] those “very special episodes” of 80’s teen television shows? It had everything: fear mongering and deliberate scare tactics, stern admonishment against partisan bickering, tiring and long-winded [...]

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:30:15 +0000

And have some unionized healthcare:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400571702189240.html

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:21:24 +0000

My favorite moment of the crappy speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4owvUFY1g

By: Harder edge, still vague « Healthcare Horserace

Harder edge, still vague « Healthcare Horserace — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:05:32 +0000

[...] Neo Neocon, who might fall under that category, points out some serious flaws in Obama’s tough-guy [...]

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:54:41 +0000

If we don’t pass his bill, the deficit will go up. WTF?

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:26:03 +0000

If low taxes, dogged determination to live, and praying for miracles, isn’t a good enough health plan for everyone, then what is?

Well, shit; it sure beats high taxes, self-slaughter and existential angst.

By: Gray

Gray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:22:57 +0000

What a crappy, juvenile speech. His speechwriter really does sound 27 years old…..

If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.

Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing….. more will die as a result (of our do-nothing, nothing-doing, apparently). We know these things to be true.

Such utter, utter bullshit. No, we do not “know these things to be true”.

The whole thing was just stunning in it’s complete misrepresentation of the opposition and pie-in-the-sky promises.

He built a straw man and beat the shit out of it in front of congress, engaged in some scare-tactics and doom-mongering and then beat up his opponents for using scare-tactics and doom-mongering.

I’m calling you out, Obama.

Of course Nyomythus:
So far, so good for Obama — thus far he is selling it.

You gigantic ass: are you just obtuse or are you smoking the hopium. Snap out of it man! It’s concentrated pablum with a chaser of ill-will. I know you aren’t this stupid.

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:19:21 +0000

Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close.

So there’s the strategy. Crash the economy, and blame it on lack of health care reform.

Obama knows that his health care bill is deader than dog food, so he’s trying to wring some benefit from its demise: the deficit will grow, families will go bankrupt, and businesses will close in any case, thanks to his policies, so he might as well lay those problems off on the failure of his bill(s).

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:32:41 +0000

Now Obama is slagging everyone who disagrees with him.

This is red meat for his base, but who is persuaded to change their position?

Now the Big Lie: Nothing will change for you if you like your insurance. Repeated twice.