President Obama: "I didn't campaign on the public option."
You see, it all depends on what your definition of the word "campaign" is.
My definition would be the part where it says: "Offers a public health insurance option to provide the uninsured and those who can’t find affordable coverage with a real choice."
Of course he wants Government run health care, and centralized financial institutions, and a single payer employer (the government). The American people aren't interested in that junk. Obama will do what he can to incrementally implement his vision. It is up to the American people to actively reject this leftist ideology before it destroys the engine that made America great.— Mr. Smith
Hope- Change and GULLIBLE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VOTERS— Manny Trillo
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I notice that the Republics in the Senate debate are continually claiming that the health bill is not what Obama promised in his campaign, suggesting somehow that if they were in charge they would put Obama's campaign promises into law (which of course is not likely at all). Obama distanced himself from requiring a public option, although he said he would prefer to have it, a long time ago. I don't think you can get him on this one. Now on restoring full civil rights that the Bush administration took away--that may be another story.- Certainly happier than when conservatives are in office, despite Obama's centrist stances.— HandNik
- Heh, Mark Steyn: --snip-- Every Continental under the age of 40 – make that 60, if not 75 – is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe --snip-- So Steyn says. In reality? --snip--Slightly more than 4 percent of Europe's population is Muslim, as defined by demographers (though about 80 per cent of these people are not religiously observant, so they are better defined as secular citizens who have escaped religious nations). It is possible, though not certain, that this number could rise to 6 percent by 2020. If current immigration and birth rates remain the same, it could even rise to 10 percent within 100 years. But it won't, because Muslims don't actually have more babies than other populations do under the same circumstances. The declining population growth rates are not confined to native populations. In fact, immigrants from Muslim countries are experiencing a faster drop in reproduction rates than the larger European population. --snip-- Mark Steyn, a liar and an Islamophobe. No wonder he's sloboat's hero.— Talking point sleuth
Actually TPS your right in the sence they are not a huge minority , what you dont know is they all live in certain areas , where they collect they become a majority , they put up their mosques and have that stupid chanting calling them to prayer and complain endlessly about the infidel church down the road that just happenes to have been there a thousand years. No point talking about the terrorist attacks , or the european muslims caught on the battlefields commiting treason or the complicit support of extremists by the majority because we all know you will try spinning the reality like you did when the Fort Hood terrorist attack took place .— PAEnglish- The Chinese called and said they won't lend us the money for this health care bill Very sorry— Tageman
- Blaming all Muslims for terrorism is like blaming all Christians for the KKK.— aj322
@ aj322: Uhhh, let's see...— baworks- Will, if you fully understand the content of the two versions, please explain it to us, without cutting and pasting from other commentaries or summaries. Bottom line, my annual costs will increase, even though my company is self-insured.— AngryWhiteMale
- Er, Mr. Smith... I'm an American person and I'm interested in the government running health care. Seems to me that there's a conflict of interest in having private insurers in the game at all: their profits come from taking in premium from as many folks as possible and paying out costs to as few as possible. Sounds like a con game to me. I'm also interested in some common-sense regulation of the financial sector so that it actually serves the engine of American economic growth rather than just its own shareholders and bonus-takers (and so that the taxpayers never, NEVER have to bail them out again, as we did towards the end of the Bush administration). But let me ask you this: can you prove that Obama is in favor of making the government a "single-payer employer" - in other words, that he is a genuine socialist? Has he made any statements or published any writings to that effect? Can you quote any socialists that approve of his plans? (A two-minute Internet search will find you quite a few who don't.) Simply shouting "Socialist" doesn't count. Simply saying that health care is the thin end of the wedge is fallacious.— Billy Ray Winthorpe
- Gee, Will, maybe this can be the start of a trend - you know, where you pay more attention to the transgressions of someone who is in power (Obama) than someone who is not (Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck). But you'd better be careful, if you actually start acting like a journalist instead of a DNC shill, they might take your Obama-pom-poms away from you.— db_cooper
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