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The Obama Watch
WBHO and WBHO FM in the Nation’s Capital
If the president wants to be believed, he could begin by giving up his Saturday disc jockey gig.
(Page 2 of 2)
Polls indicate the president can’t. So do recent elections.
So when the president said in his radio address, “If you like the insurance plan you have now, you can keep it,” people probably didn’t believe him.
And when he said, “Doctors and patients will have more control over their health care decisions,” people probably didn’t believe him.
And when he indicated that his socialized medicine plan will prevent Medicare and Medicaid from sinking our government deeper and deeper into debt, probably no one believed him.
Except, perhaps, some White House bears, including Hopey and Changie.
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dhenri2| 3.8.10 @ 6:31AM
The great MOTUS (Manipulator of the United States) spews so many putrid lies, I can hardly breathe.
ItsdaEconomyStupid| 3.8.10 @ 5:53PM
I think we are missing the larger point here and Obama's purpose. This article only clouds the economic debate. There are reasons for the plans in the jobs and recovery legislation. It's actually much more simple than this article or argument any of our "politicians" are making on the hill. I was glad when I came across this article about the economic debate and the benefits of the republican vs the democratic plans check it out:
http://bit.ly/investment-vs-debt
basur | 10.27.10 @ 9:12AM
Would you buy a used car from this guy?
greghawk| 3.8.10 @ 6:51AM
I'm embarrassed to have this thought, but perhaps the President was not as rigorously schooled as one would like to believe. 'Gentleman's C's', as it were, all though the primary grades and high school. We'll never know.
Hugh| 3.8.10 @ 4:08PM
Although Mr. Obama and his colleges have not released his grades, we know that he did not graduate with honors from Columbia, nor from Harvard Law School. There have been assertions that he graduated with honors from HLS, but you will not find a Harvard publication to that effect.
The President of the Harvard Law Review used to be the student at the top of the class, but by Obama's time, it was a popularly elected position.
Lawrence Boccardi| 3.8.10 @ 7:21AM
Actually, we will know, greghawk. When one of his water bearers gets fed up enough, they will leak his college records. Of course they are only kept from us because he declareed his faith as Islam.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.8.10 @ 7:40AM
When you believe certain citizens are evil, it would seem reasonable that you also believe they are stupid. That would explain Obama's lazy language litany.
Evidence of the Obama condescending attitude is found in the following statement, where he simply dismisses many Americans as bitter zealots, not worthy of his quasi-godlike leadership that he will fawn upon them:
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Further disdain for America and it's citizens can be found in this article. Be sure to listen to the radio interview. Obama's problem is that he thinks he's smarter then anyone else. In that sense he's wearing the Emperor's New Clothes.
http://www.americanthinker.com.....titut.html
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.8.10 @ 8:23AM
I simply cannot help wondering if the man was actually packaged and positioned to crater our country...across the board.
Handing him the presidency was akin to handing a five year old "Dirty Harry" fan a loaded six-gun.
Pugsley| 3.8.10 @ 9:08AM
Ken-look up an old out of date book titled, 'The Unseen Hand' written in the early sixties. It lays out the whole blueprint for what is happening today. It will make the hair on the back of your kneck stand up. The main premise is break the middle class financially because they have too many guns to be taken over by force. Sure seems to be working, as more of the people get desperate they simply turn to the gov for help. The rats are standing with open arms to give all the 'help' the people need...for a price. I read that book back in the 80's and laughed, reread it in '02 and suddenly I wasn't laughing anymore, check it out if you can find a copy.
oof oof| 3.8.10 @ 8:46AM
Actually he's just doing the "Goebbels" imitation. The big lie, put it out there, keep repeating it, and it becomes the truth. He spews it, the lame stream media repeats it, the trolls spew it all over the blogs, and pretty soon it's the truth. What he doesn't understand, and refuses to, is that thinking people are not believing his crap anymore. With the advent of talk radio, the internet, and Fox news, there are plenty of ways to combat these lies. And thank God for the American Spectator, on the frontlines defending the truth!
TabbyCat| 3.8.10 @ 2:56PM
Mee-Ow to that!
Just let them turkeys try and keep us down! >^^
Mattled| 3.8.10 @ 8:51AM
Ken---the patina wore off his charm last year. Now it's his [supposed] intellectual capacity.
He has none. Read Jack Cashill's defenestration of his book---written by Bill Ayers. Read Obama's second book and you see the real Obama----dumb. There I said it. The president of the United States is -----dumb.
Obama is such an intellectual lightweight, the media is in overdrive covering for him and in the process sound like they are HS sophomore writers.
You can't write something smart or clever when your subject is so dumb. Just repeating "he is SSOOOO smart" over and over does not make it so.
My CNN relative last week said; "Well, he was elected president, so he has to have some smarts".
I said: are you now admitting Bush was smart? Then I guess Bush was super-intellectual because he got re-elected---something Obam will more than likely NOT achieve. He is polling in the 30's and no hope to go up to 50+ any time soon.
It is an absolute joy watching a Liberal wallow in such unpopularity and get proven stupid like this.
In the future we can just say Remember Obama next time a liberal tries for the WH.
It will be like "Borked" of F*****.
Don't get "Obama-ed"
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.8.10 @ 9:05AM
It's not LAZY LANGUAGE. He's NOT STUPID. He knows what he's doing. He's LYING. He's a LIAR. EVERYONE in his Administration is a LIAR. They spout the BIG LIE, like it was the 1930's. And, because the FREE PRESS has chosen sides, they get away with it. Don't be surprised if they start BLAMING THE JEWS.
Speaking of the FREE PRESS...Anybody know how many Americans were KILLED in the Wars, yesterday? How about the day before? Are we getting 'close' to one of those DEAD AMERICAN TROOPS MILESTONES, that we used to hear so much about? Is ABC still showing the PHOTOGRAPHS of the AMERICAN TROOPS that were KILLED that week? Where are all the SOUP LINE STORIES? Where are all the HOMELESS STORIES? Where was the OUTRAGE, when President Jesus canceled the VOUCHER PROGRAM, so that POOR BLACK KIDS, in places like D.C., could get a GOOD EDUCATION in a PRIVATE SCHOOL, like the TEACHERS UNION MEMBERS' kids do?
The PRESS has become a CULT. And this country is in PERIL.
Mattled| 3.8.10 @ 9:33AM
Timothy---you're right.
Drones killing civilians? Yawn.
Patriot Act reauthorized? Yawn.
Cell phone conversations listened to? Yawn---no Libtard outrage.
Web Activity monitored? Google will help Dear Leader on that one.
Their lack of voice on all these will be remembered for a long time.
The sooner Big Media goes down---the sooner Omobby goes down. The patina has wore off.
Can't agree with the "He's not stupid" line though. Marxists aren't smart---they just think they can do Marxism better than the previous Marxist. If Marxists were smart, then people would be drowning to get into Cuba. And they would show us their college grades (lol).
Marxist professors give their Marxist students great grades for being great Marxists.
Show me a Marxist, I'll show you an A student---in an Ivy League school.
Grzmlyk| 3.8.10 @ 2:59PM
Timothy and Mattled, well said to both of you.
I think Obama does know what he's doing - employing the old Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the system in order to paralyze it - then lay the failure at capitalism's door, even as the socialist knight in shining armor comes riding to the rescue. So in that way, he knows exactly what he's doing.
But that's because he has a puerile view of economics (among other things) that is informed by his own indoctrination and his status as a perpetual outsider during his formative years. I honestly think he believes what my ex-girlfriend believes (hey, she was gorgeous and sometimes very sweet, what can I say?):
That there is a giant cave somewhere that is filled with all the money that this planet will ever have. This lucre is jealously guarded, naturally, by evil, right-wing capitalists and their cronies, and it is the mission of Obama and his fellow travelers to pry the guards away from the mouth of the cave and dole out the stacks of money inside to those they deem "deserving."
Obama's supreme confidence does not derive from surpassing wisdom; quite the contrary, it derives from utter ignorance.
He's like the child that slips into his daddy's shoes and imagines himself a man of consequence as he traipses around the house, idealizing his father's perceived omniscience and omnipotence even has he mythologizes his own place in the world.
But of course his father is just a man, the shoes don't fit, the moment passes and the child's fantasy is eventually supplanted by something we in the conservative movement like to call "reality."
This will NEVER happen with Obama. If the man lives to be 100, he will go to his grave believing he was the one we had been waiting for - but that we Philistines were simply too retrograde to recognize his godhead.
Like Peter Pan and Michael Jackson, Obama simply refuses to grow up.
LQQKY| 3.8.10 @ 10:02AM
The messiah proves the adage: "Figures don't lie, but liars figure!" His administration is probably among the worst ever for (to put it mildly), shading the truth -- a pre-requisite being a PhD Magna cum Laude with a major in spin.
Shamus| 3.8.10 @ 11:21AM
Would you buy a used car from this guy?
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Northern Rebel| 3.8.10 @ 12:40PM
Kudos to you Mr. Oliver, for you interpretation of "president" Anti-Christs's remarks. I'm happy you are out there, because I can't stomache his voices: His White House voice, or his "black inflected" one.
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Margie| 3.8.10 @ 3:01PM
Obama was destined and pre-destined to be who and where he is right now.
When my Christian pals tell me I should pray for him I say yeah I'll pray for him. I pray for him to be removed from office asap. According to God's will, of course!
WAKE UP| 3.8.10 @ 3:58PM
"Marxists aren't smart---they just think they can do Marxism better than the previous Marxist." True - but they are Rat Cunning.
Drew | 3.8.10 @ 6:06PM
This entire article, which attempts portray President Obama's discussion of the skyrocketing cost of individual health insurance insurance as being in some way deceptive, is based upon a fundamental FAILURE to comprehend written English. While Mr Oliver manages to spend numerous paragraphs parsing the meaning of words and phrases such as "including" and "like" - he manages to ignore the salient point, contained in the very same newspaper article he cites:
(From the March 4, 2010 Chicago Tribune)
For the state's more than half-million consumers in individual health plans, base rates will go up from 8.5 percent to more than 60 percent, according to state data.
Mr Oliver's assertion that " individuals who lost their company health insurance will have to pay 60 percent more for an individual policy than they had been paying (out of pocket) for coverage under the company's policy" is absurd. People who lose their jobs (and company health insurance) will pay - out of pocket - many, many times MORE THAN 60% than they had previously. The article VERY CLEARLY states that it refers to those who are ALREADY in individual plans as those who will be subject to rate increases of (wait for it) up to 60%.
Epic Fail - on the grounds of facts, ethics, and basic reading comprehension - on the part of another American Spectator contributor.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.8.10 @ 6:51PM
Hi Drew.
You are wrong.
Stupid...and wrong
Have you ever paid health premiums....OK now be honest, have you?
Every quarter, as CFO, I must decide whether to pay my folks more...or insure them. I always must opt to insure them. That is the way "tax breaks" work best...for my people.
Drew| 3.8.10 @ 7:10PM
As someone who's owned and managed a small manufacturing business for more than 15 years I'm quite well acquainted with the payment of health insurance premiums, thank you very much.
Read the Tribune article. It is quite apparent that Oliver didn't make it past the first paragraph. Or he is as stupid and mendacious as you are.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....3417.story
Grzmlyk| 3.8.10 @ 9:06PM
I read it.
I don't see any other way to interpret it. Looks like Drew's right on this point.
COservative Bob| 3.8.10 @ 8:12PM
This link does not work Drew... can you provide one that does?
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FTM| 3.9.10 @ 4:39AM
I think that you guys are being way too hard on President Obama and party in power. I think that you should rejoice that this man is the President of the United States at this time. How could the situation be any better?
Seriously, for the Tea Partier, Libertarian, Social Conservitive, Fiscal Conservitave, Constitutionalist, Republican, Traditionalist how could the situation as it exists ever be any better? President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have proven once and for all time, beyond the shadow of any reasonable doubt exactly what the Liberal Democrat/Progressive Movement is all about. Who can make a legitimate arguement in favor of these fiscal and social policies? The outcome is proven, assured disaster.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have assured fiscal and social conservitive majorities in the legislative and executive branch for at least the next generation excepting places that are hopeless, the likes of san fransicko and new orleans. Places like those.
There is a Liberal Democrat running for re-election in a mid-western state that is behind in the polls to "other" right now. If the fiscal/social conservitaves can resist doing something ignorant like mandating a state religion or something like that I'd think that even the likes of President Bush could get re-elected. This is simple, get the US out of the UN, get the UN out of the US, get the US out of NATO, Japan and South Korea, insist on "Free Trade" being a true two way street and abolish the federal corporate income tax use the revenue surplus to pay off the national debt and there will never again be a socialist threat to the well being of this nation for fifty years.
Conservvitives would actually have to work at screwing this up.
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Dave | 3.10.10 @ 1:50PM
Obama's "wordsmithing" kind of reminds me of another Fibber-in-Chief: "(uhh) Well, it all depends on what the meaning of IS ... is."
Or as Forest Gump might have said: "B.S. is as B.S. does."