I tuned in to a Presidential Speech and got a tennis game instead


So Barack Obama is speaking right now. He’s turning his head back and forth so much for the teleprompter that I think he’s watching a tennis game. I can’t find where the ball is hiding though.

8:26: “Build on what works and fix what doesn’t.” Everyone stands and applauds. This is the problem though: he doesn’t believe it. He wants to raise the costs of private insurance so much that government insurance looks cheap in comparison. In other words, he wants to raise prices all around and, in the process, break the system.

8:28: Just noticed Nancy and Joe. It looks like they had their botox. Better enjoy it while they can because because the Democrats want to tax the hell out of it.

8:28: He’s accusing others of playing “short-term” politics. But . . . but . . . what the hell is this speech? Obama is accusing others of playing politics when he is playing politics.

Three basic goals:

  • More security and stability.
  • Insurance for those who don’t have it.
  • Slow the costs of healthcare.

But he won’t propose tort reform, which would slow the costs of healthcare.

8:30: Obama says his plan includes input from his “primary opponents.” What’s that? Remember Hillary supporting forced mandates for insurance and Obama bashing her in Ohio? Yeah. He’s caving on that.

8:31: “No one should go broke because they get sick,” he says. He stole that from Facebook. Of course, no one should have their insurance lost to pay for the insurance of those who don’t have it. And that’s what he would have happen.

8:32: He’s talking about the exchange. The exchange forces employees who leave their present employer to get on government insurance. They would have no choice.

8:34: Four years? In other words he wants to push the ball down the road so he doesn’t have to deal with the costs during a re-election campaign.

8:35: I told you he was going to flip-flop on mandatory coverage. Oh, and businesses are going to be forced to pay. And here we go: the requirements on business will necessitate businesses don’t grow or they throw employees off their insurance and into a government plan.

8:37: Barack Obama takes on the death panels. He calls them a lie. EXCEPT THEY ARE NOT.

8:38: He says abortions won’t be funded and illegal immigrants won’t be funded. He is lying.
Whichever member yelled out “it’s a lie,” gets a drink on me.

8:39: ZOMG! He said “choice and competition.” Quick, quick stand up and clap Republicans.

8:40: Barack Obama tries to claim a government option is competition. This is crap.

8:42: If lying is a sin, Barack Obama is in big trouble. He’s using so many disproven fatuous canards he’s turning into a walking red herring.

8:43: Talking about the Public Option. He’s trying to split the baby.

8:46: “We will provide you with a choice.” No, we will enslave you to the government.

8:48: Barack Obama wants to speak directly to seniors. They must have put a senior on his teleprompter, because he’s speaking directly there and not at the camera.

8:50: Barack Obama has blown this. He’s turned it into a campaign speech using Congress as a prop. He’s needling the Republicans instead of trying to work with them.

8:53: Obama actually brings up tort reform. Defensive medicine “maybe” contributing to costs? What a load of crap. So Obama is going to pass this off to HHS to rig some results that make it look like tort reform does nothing.

8:56: Barack Obama stakes his Presidency on healthcare. And he says he’ll call us out for distorting the plan. Will he call himself out for distorting the plan?

8:56: He pulls out Teddy Kennedy’s corpse and drags it around the House chamber now. Thank God he drank so much. His body looks well preserved.

8:59: My God. This has become “Weekend at Teddy’s.” Where are Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman?

9:03: I’m waiting for him to go “I still believe in a place called hope.”


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I hope the GOP response

DerKrieger (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 8:46PM EST (link)

…mentions the Constitution and the GOP bill for health care reform.

Watched about 15 seconds, heard Teh One say “It’s time to stop____” and had to turn the channel. More heaping blame on those of us that oppose socialist policies. More lying. Can’t take it.

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690

 

I thought this would be different

GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 8:52PM EST (link)

But no, same disdain for the American public. And same garbage about how government can do things better than you and me. Mark Levin had a grrod comment: if government has to keep insurance honest, who will keep Obama honest? Definitely not Congress.


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

 

Though I still believe we conservatives

burgessputney (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 8:55PM EST (link)

need moderates, I can say this… President Obama has given a speech unbecoming of a Untied States President. He has been demeaning, trivial, and ultimately juvenile in his tack. From here on out, the Republican must have the mindset described in the Godfather Part I. “To the Mattresses!”

Just like all of his speeches

GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 8:57PM EST (link)

He has never left the campaign trail. There is a difference between campaigning to be POTUS and being the POTUS. This nut has no clue.


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

Obama needs to remember that he

GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 8:58PM EST (link)

is everyone’s President, not just the POTUS of those who believe in him and agree with him.


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

Unbelievable, unpresidential

burgessputney (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:01PM EST (link)

This man is not a leader, he never has been. He is the darling child of nut job leftists. He is off base, and lacks any real courage.

 
 
 
 

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'waving the bloody shirt'. nt

Xasteius (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:00PM EST (link)

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

 

Come on!

redtillimdead (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:01PM EST (link)

If I didn’t want to see the response I’d stop this now! Gah! Barf!! This is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E-!

Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.

 

Heck yes I'm skeptical...

burgessputney (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:03PM EST (link)

Mr. President, have you ever been to a post office? That is the U.S. government at its finest. They lose your mail and are only open from 10 to 2….

 

thank GOD!

redtillimdead (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:03PM EST (link)

Its over!

Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.

 

Boustany

redtillimdead (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:10PM EST (link)

Seems to be doing better than Jindal did. We may have a real, vocal spokesperson here. I hope they put him out more.

Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.

 

ok, I confess

Cheryl (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:10PM EST (link)

I’m watching my A’s get spanked by the Sox and just relying on ya’ll to fill me in. Thank you for your great sacrfice. How’d our guy from LA do?

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams

“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com

To be an A's fan this year

civil truth (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:15PM EST (link)

…is to be a glutton for punishment. How far they have fallen.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

no kidding

Cheryl (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:20PM EST (link)

BUT, they’ll be back next year, still better than watching Nobama

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams

“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com

 
 
 

Well, considering this was his last pitch to kick start this dead horse.

Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:13PM EST (link)

I personally feel he failed miserably. And I am happy :D

To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher

Yeah

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:18PM EST (link)

No points were scored tonight. He tried to damn hard to be Mr. Centrist. I personally didn’t buy it one damn bit.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

 
 

Everyone, please wipe your shoes after the speech

NickDeringer (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:13PM EST (link)

Don’t want to mess up the rug.

 

"Reset" Or "Replay"

michigan Wednesday, September 9th at 9:19PM EST (link)

Same ideas in different packaging. It’s really tough to cover a lie with another, but what else can he say. He’s pathological to his hidden ideology so some may buy in.

At least some have the guts to say what they believe. I submit, Mr. Thomas Friedman in the NYT.

Quoting Mr. Friedman,

“Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China’s leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.
Our one-party democracy is worse….”

I’ll be the first to buy Tommy a one way ticket to Beijing or Pyongyang, and let him try it first hand for a few years. Then, he can report to us how “Dear Leader” is handling his every utopian want or need. I say let him talk, talk, talk. This is in the soul of EVERY secular progressive; he just had the guts to spit it out on paper. Delicious

China's leaders!!!! OMG....

antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 10:05PM EST (link)

This guy is nuts…. Same guys who bulldoze people….. Communists? If he were in China he would be executed for going against the fabric of the country… for Treason….

Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
—————————–
What is to be done?
——————————
No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!

 
 

Erick, you could be the play by play analyst

louisiana (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:19PM EST (link)

at Wimbledon, although I don’t think they’d appreciate your wit! I laughed so hard about the Senior in the teleprompter & the Ted Kennedy remarks. LOL!

 

Tennis game? How did you know?

GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:20PM EST (link)

I watched the US Open Women’s quarterfinal match on ESPN2 for most of the time. And then listened to Mark Levin broadcast it with his great commentary.


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

I watched GA's Oudin last hurrah; Obama's 112th speech on health care and GOP response not game-changers, a game, I might add that

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:38PM EST (link)

ObamaDems are losing badly.

Oudin will win a major by 2012. Obama will lose in 2012.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 

I watched GA's Oudin last hurrah; Obama's 112th speech on health care and GOP response not game-changers, a game, I might add that

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:38PM EST (link)

ObamaDems are losing badly.

Oudin will win a major by 2012. Obama will lose in 2012.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 
 

I fell like I'm in some Orwellian nightmare

johnCV (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:33PM EST (link)

When obama starts out by talking about American rugged individualism and ends up that segment with how we really only want the government to provide us succor and safety in the end, I thought my head was going to explode!

this guy is either ideologically blinded or evilly manipulative. Maybe both – he has makings of a good dictator.

That's the whole idea, JohnCV, a good dictator. nt

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:42PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

Is there such a thing as a "good" dictator? nt

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:57PM EST (link)

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

Yeah, some are good at being dictators. nt

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:59PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

Heh

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 10:12PM EST (link)

It doesn’t take much skill to be a dictator. All one needs is an extreme narcissistic personality disorder.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

Check.

johnCV (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 11:32PM EST (link)

Add a pinch of meglomania and a dash of disdain for the lumpenprole and that about rounds out comrade obama.

 
 
 
 
 

I'm pretty sure he thinks he is dictator. nt

clowngirl (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 10:13PM EST (link)
 

Why are talking heads saying public option is out?

GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 9:45PM EST (link)

O’Reilly is saying how public option is off the table. This confuses me. I distinctly heard Obama say that people will be able to buy a low-cost policy from the government if they cannot get insurance. What did I not understand? Help!!


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

 

LOL!

kdoc Wednesday, September 9th at 9:49PM EST (link)

8:56: He pulls out Teddy Kennedy’s corpse and drags it around the House chamber now. Thank God he drank so much. His body looks well preserved.

Best line of the evening! Drinks on my son the next time you see him :-)

 

I tried to watch the thing

WarEagle01 (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 10:14PM EST (link)

but I made the mistake of using Jim Geraghty’s Obama Health-Care Speech Bingo as a drinking game. Now I’m drunk off my ahh……….

“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg

“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)

 

Erick, that's a great summation.

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, September 9th at 10:16PM EST (link)

I almost choked the first time he called something a lie when we know it’s in there because we read it for ourselves.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

 

Number of viewers

lurker9876 Thursday, September 10th at 12:13AM EST (link)

I wonder how many watched him.

 

I tried

proudgop (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 12:20AM EST (link)

I tried to watch but had to shut it off then turned it back on to see GOP rebuttal and was not pleased with that short speech

How much airtime did the networks give GOP rebuttal? Serious, that had to have been less then 5 minutes?