tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post3600698736862840049..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Obama Health Care Speech: Pure AdvertisingLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-15422077164197030942009-07-24T18:16:42.997-05:002009-07-24T18:16:42.997-05:00I think this is turning into a medicare program fo...I think this is turning into a medicare program for people under 62. The chief problem with medicare is waste and corruption which is worse than private insurance fraud. But Obama is selling the idea that the gov't as a new "player" in the "Under 62er" market will make the private insurers "more honest" reminds me of a Rahm-Obama Chicago Ninth Ward version of Woody Allen's Mid Summer's Night Sex Dream.<br /><br />In all honesty many feel that we as a member of the civilized nations club need to extend health care to all citizens ala Canada and Europe has its merits. Except for time of war and national elections, I feel we are no longer a united nation but a diverse market for banks and oligarchs. The free marketers themselves often have their Barack moments as well.<br /><br />BTW when the Cambridge police encountered Professor Gates they asked him to prove who he was by showing them his birth certificate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-40448652953293350002009-07-24T00:36:22.906-05:002009-07-24T00:36:22.906-05:00One reason for guarded optimism, at least on this ...One reason for guarded optimism, at least on this particular issue, is the well-known fact that the poll numbers for the administrations health care plan have been sliding like a glacier over recent weeks and months. Most Americans have day jobs and like me have been paying attention to other things, but as we gradually learn more and more about this plan, we like it less and less. Obama's alleged silver-tongued eloquence (to which I seem to be tone deaf, BTW) can't turn this sow's ear into a silk purse.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-90559646164679584902009-07-23T17:44:52.791-05:002009-07-23T17:44:52.791-05:00"The only question remaining is whether the A..."The only question remaining is whether the American people are sensible enough to realize that he has not told them anything that would pursuade a rational being. I think they are."<br /><br />I tend to agree. But while most Americans might realize that Obama hasn't made a persuasive argument that the government can achieve these goals, it leaves open the possibility that many (most? enough?) Americans nonetheless have faith that the government CAN achieve these goals, and that an argument COULD be made. (Or perhaps it's just faith that Obama can achieve anything and no argument needs to be made.) To what extent this is actually true of the American public is, of course, an empirical question about which I don't pretend to have an answer, although my gut feeling isn't extremely optimistic.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180762290315096280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-20244462872206917012009-07-23T09:49:53.776-05:002009-07-23T09:49:53.776-05:00I agree with you, Lester, I think (and deeply HOPE...I agree with you, Lester, I think (and deeply HOPE) most people are not as idiotic as Obama seems to believe. This president continues to amaze me with his ever-expanding manifestations of naivety, Chicago bully tactics and somewhat narcissistic public humor. I think it's raising more and more red flags as he keeps trying to rush this 1000+ page piece of horseshi, I mean, legislation, through Congress before August. Apparently Congress will be exempt from this public option - they should be the first ones to have to adopt it, the test case. Obama and too many others in politics are economic and business illiterates. It's really hard to imagine how they come up with this stuff, otherwise.Annnoreply@blogger.com