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Obama Tells Students: “Fight With Me”

By Philip Klein on 3.8.10 @ 1:10PM

President Obama kicked off his health care road show this morning with a speech to students at Arcadia University outside of Philadelphia. “I’m fired up,” Obama declared in the campaign-style rally during which, ironically, he blasted pundits in Washington for being too focused on politics and elections.

He made a closing argument more or less along the lines of his speech last week, complete with the disengenous deficit reduction and cost containment claims as well as the boast that new subsidies translate into the largest middle class tax cut in history. (This even though the plan would force uninsured middle class Americans to either purchase expensive government-approved health insurance, or pay a tax.) One new false claim Obama made was to argue that free market reforms aimed at lowering health insurance premiums by scaling back benefit mandates had already been tried before.

Ultimately, he tried to argue that Washington was too focused on how passing the bill would affect Democrats’ political prospects and not whether passing it was right. Of course, left out of this analysis is that the public has overwhelmingly decided that passing the bill would be wrong — a fact that has been demonstrated in numerous polls, as well as that election in Massachusetts that you may have heard something about.

By far, the most depressing aspect of the speech was the fact that Obama seemed to receive his largest applause (as far as I could tell watching on TV) when he said that the health care bill would require insurers to let individuals stay on their parents’ health care policies until they are 26 years old. Yay for dependency!

Eric Cartman| 3.8.10 @ 2:15PM

Obamabots In Love:
Scene II: The scent of Ramen Noodles, patchouli oil and sandalwood incense hangs in the air. The room has the warm glow of a early spring morning sun though a paisley sheet that hangs across the window. Outside, the campus is readying for a speech by Professor Obama. Two sophomore co-eds (one is a guy who is trying to get a gender reassignment operation at the student health center) are sitting so that the taller one Jasmine (Jack) is braiding Suz's hair and putting star anise here and there . Charcoal stretching's of professor Barack Obama with rainbows, hearts and unicorns hang in various stages of completion.

Suz: I can't wait for the speech today! Professor Obama is so AWSOME! I'm so embarrassed that I couldn't not stop, um, my orgasm the other day in his class. The thorazine drip helped a lot.

Jasmine (Jack): You are not alone, girl! Haven't you noticed the whole campus grabs their groin and falls over when he walks by?! Well, except those yucky ROCT Nazis and some of the business college goons.

Suz: I know! (Suz blushes and gabs her stomach) I'm getting all fluttery just thinking about it! Did you have to kill my buzz with the mention of those ROTC guys! What fools! "Join the military and see the world!" More like " Join the military and kill innocent people!"

Jack: For sure! Do you want the willow branches in the braids, too? Or is that too busy?

Suz: Too busy! No willow - I told you that the other day! (Suz picks up a sketching of the professor) Look at him! *Sigh*. He's so, so dreamy! Do you like my sketching? See, He's riding the unicorn under a rainbow. See all the people looking up at His rippling muscles with hope in their eyes?! I added the tears to show the emotion we all feel for Him! And look, in this hand is his teleprompter and he's slaying the Republicans and insurance CEOs with it. In his mouth is a cigarette - I had to think about that, but it does look cool.

Jack: Hmm humm. Tilt your head back, dear. Ya know, His speech today is about health care and immigration. How the two go hand in hand. Girl, STOP moving your head! I can't wait until health care if free and we can get all those immigrants on it - then the Democrats will be in charge FOREVER!

Suz: Oooohh! I know! My dad - he's just an old white guy, doesn't understand - he is soooooo mad about that. Like it will hurt him to help these poor people! They just want a better life! He's mad cause' he says his competition is hiring "illegal's" and undercutting him. We got in a big fight and he said he was going to not pay for my college anymore. So I said, "Fine, that's okay, Professor Obama said he will get the government to pay for all our education! " Boy, that made him mad! Hahahhahahahahah.

Jack: Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee!

Suz: Professor Obama will fix the world, Jasmine! He will! He'll end hunger, stop global warming, stop war and bring love and warmth to humanity! He is God! Wait, wait! I have to add Obama throwing money out to the masses to my sketch!

Join us next time when Suz throws eggs at a group of ROTC students while shouting "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi!".

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 3.8.10 @ 7:18PM

Cartman: I really hate Jack & Suz, I really, really hate them!! I hope you have a very unhappy ending in store for them, in this serial-love-story you've been writing here. Maybe involving a Islamic Jihadist, who cuts off Suz's head, while Jack watches and cries about how they're ruining his great braid job? When does the next edition come out (I'm not excited about it or anything, I'm just kind of interested)? I hope those ROTC students kick their asses, what am I thinking, of course the ROTC students are going to kick their asses. But maybe Professor Obama saves them at the last second, when he comes flying in on his magical unicorn, and blows smoke into the eyes of the ROTC students, rendering them blind? That would be most unfortunate!!

Oldefarte| 3.8.10 @ 5:01PM

This LIAR -IN-CHIEF is the worst president in this nation's history, and his excessive desire [along with the radical Democratic Party] to force this WELFARECARE down the throats of American taxpayers SHOULD BE criminal. His typical ambulance-chasing SHYSTER/LAWYER tactics of blaming the cost of healthcare on insurance companies is the biggest pile of horse manure ever witnessed. The CBO has previously stated that tort reform's built in costs in the medical expense formula is approximately $50 million per year; and his and Democrats' down-on-their-knees personaes to trial lawyers [who substantially fund their political campaigns] should be obvious to the American public as to who/what/why,etc he/they are pushing this government helathcare takeover so excessively. Anyone doubting this may wish to question why Obama/Holder/Democrats are so determined to allow the Muslim terrorists to be tried in this country [so that trial lawyers can have ready access to clients----the only question should be WHO/WHAT will be paying these lawyers' fees]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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