The Seminal Watercooler: Obama’s Speech |
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| By: Jason Rosenbaum Wednesday September 9, 2009 5:08 pm | |
The watercooler comes a bit early tonight so folks can weigh in on Obama’s speech. What are you hearing and thinking?
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prediction: no real news one way or the other on the public option front.
like that little smile from Obama after the McCain reference, when McC gave him a standing O.
Way more populist in this speech than in the past.
What were the GOP clowns waving in their hands?
Three things I liked: (1) He called out the right for lies and general bad behavior; (3) He debunked the anti-government rhetoric; (2) He unequivocably called it a moral issue above all else.
for you and for eye and for kill bill
http://limittedliabilityco.blogspot.com/
Joe Wilson’s opponent has an ActBlue page… U.S. Marine Rob Miller. Let’s have his back this time and give him the support to win.
Semper Fi
Borrowed from Kos:
Is that good?
Seems like the questions before-and-after are comparing apples and oranges….
Joe Wilson’s phone is busy and his website has been taken down or crashed, but you can still contact him through a congress email: follow link at bottom of article to contact Wilson:
http://redcowranch.wordpress.com/
I find both this and this good analyses but for me the bottomline is this:
“In fact, this speech made one thing perfectly clear: Obama doesn’t just spout rhetoric on bipartisanship, he actually believes in it down to the very core of his being. It’s not just lip service to him, he really really really believes that bipartisanship is the best way to get things done.”
REAL leaders are not concerned with placating those who attack them and their ideas and it certainly cannot be argued that he has not been attacked by those whose ignorance and biases are based on fallacy.
‘Lines in the sand’ are drawn by those who have principles they won’t abandon; THAT is why Bush won re-election(besides the cheating at the polls,see Ohio).
And that is why the Democrats will lose the next election.
Joe Wilson’s website has crashed and his office is busy, but you can contact him at home and politely request that he resign. An apology is not enough:
Home phone number is at top:
http://redcowranch.wordpress.com/
My take on it? The Heel of a Loaf. It’s a good speech, but not good policy.
Obama used the word “affordable” about a dozen times. But insurance executives’ fiduciary responsibility is to maximize near-term profits. So absent an affordable public option, what incentive toward affordability do they have? In the president’s own words:
If he understands that, how can he say that the public option is merely an expendable sliver of the bill?
In this speech, Obama answered the question (if had not been answered before) as to whether or not he is a progressive with a resounding NO. But his plea for tort reform as part of his health care ”plan” raises a new question: is he really a Democrat? I mean, that’s Republican talking points, that’s McCains position (which he also embraced on other points). The speech was a wholesale sell-out to the insurance industry which should be delighted with it. He approached the public option (not even single payer) as if it venereal disease. Very, very disappointing.
Forget to mention that I have a line by line analysis of the President’s speech up as a Diary here.
He’s a closet Republican and may not even realize it. FDR he isn’t. History demanded an FDR and instead we have an Eisenhower Republican.
I’m gonna name my pony “tort reform”!!!!!!
I see it as a challenge to prove that the public option is the only way to do these things.