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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132331)	5/11/2012 12:52:59 PM
From: Carolyn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

He did not say that and you know it. Typical left wing lies - can't think of anything else, can you? Everyone know healthcare will be reformed. First start - allow companies to sell insurance across state lines.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132331)	5/11/2012 1:02:11 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

Poll: Obama Learns What Happens When You Ignore Voters breitbart.com by Mike Flynn1 hour ago I swear, most days I think I inhabit some weird no-man's-land between parallel universes. In one, the economy is sputtering and people are anxious about their long-term prospects. Government is borrowing money we can't pay back to prop up a political status quo who's foundation is cracked. At the end of the year, the economy will get a knock-out blow when the largest tax hike in history takes effect. In the other world, though, the economy is just fine and the most pressing issues on voters' minds is whether Billy can marry Bob and if women can get someone else to pay for their birth control. Oh, and in this world, apparently racist, homophobic thugs roam the streets ready to harm gays and minorities. Obama and his allies in the media clearly live in the latter world. Unfortunately for them, the voters live in the other. Today's Rasmussen poll should be a shocking wake-up call that the Obama campaign needs to quickly find a way into the real world: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 43% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undecided. This is the first time Romney has reached the 50% level of support and is his largest lead ever over the president. It comes a week after a disappointing jobs report that raised new questions about the state of the economy. See tracking history. Thirty-seven percent (37%) give the president good or excellent marks for his handling of the economy. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he’s doing a poor job. Consumer confidence has slipped four points since last week’s government report on job creation and unemployment. The number who believe their personal finances are getting better slipped from 30% a week ago to 28% today. The number who fear their finances are getting worse increased from 43% before the jobs report to 47% today. Romney has only just wrapped up the GOP nomination. Obama has been campaigning for... well, he's never actually stopped campaigning. He has access to all the tools of the Presidency and benefits from a sycophantic press corps, who focus their considerable resources on diverting attention away from the sad state of the economy. We're told ad nauseum that Obama is "winning" the news cycle and forcing Romney to respond to him, rather than drive his own campaign. And yet, Romney is absolutely crushing Obama. The problem for Obama and the compliant media is that the economic news is so bad that their old trick of focusing on social issues, which few people really care about, isn't working. When you can't find a job, worrying about whether Billy marries Bob is pretty far down on your priority list. Don't get me wrong; there are people who care passionately about social issues. They see both gay marriage and free birth control as fundamental civil or human rights. There just aren't that many of them. Obama's campaign needs to find a way to talk to the 99% of us who are worried about the economy and our children's future. Even messianic politicians ignore the voters at their peril.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132331)	5/11/2012 1:19:37 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132331)	5/11/2012 1:53:50 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

You sound like a frightening little girl.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132331)	5/11/2012 2:01:37 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224718

Obozo Repeats Whopper About Mom's Health Insurance The Obama Record: In a campaign infomercial, the clown suggests his late mother's health insurer denied her coverage in her cancer battle. It's a heart-breaking story. Only it's not true. About midway through the slick 17-minute video, "The Road We've Traveled," narrator Tom Hanks explains that Obama made enacting his health care reforms a top priority because "he knew from experience the cost of waiting." "He remembered the millions of families like his who feel the pressure of rising costs and the fear of being denied or dropped from coverage," Hanks says, as photos of Obama and his late mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, appear on the screen. Dunham died in 1995 after a bout with ovarian cancer. Then the first lady chimes in about Dunham not having "good, consistent insurance," and the president himself adds that it "drained all her resources." "That's a tough thing to deal with — watching your mother die of something that could have been prevented," Michelle Obama says. "I don't think he wants to see anyone go through that." The suggestion is that a heartless U.S. health insurance industry denied the president's own mother medical coverage when she needed it most. And this not only bankrupted her, but sped her death. The heart-tugging narrative echoes what Obama said during a 2008 presidential debate: "For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that." He told the story again during a 2009 town hall meeting while selling his health care plan: "I will never forget my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final months, having to worry about whether her insurance would refuse to pay for her treatment." All three accounts are fictional. A new book puts the lie to his story. According to "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother," Dunham had an employer-provided health insurance policy that paid her hospital bills directly. Her insurer, Cigna, never denied payment for her cancer treatment. The deathbed dispute was over disability coverage to replace lost wages, not medical coverage. But then Obama knew this. As his mother's lawyer, he reviewed all the insurance claims. This isn't another case of Obama blurring the issue. This is the president deliberately deceiving the public to sell it socialized medicine. Worse, he used his late mother's tragedy to do it. And it isn't the first time the president has exploited deceased family members (who aren't around for the media to challenge his accounts) for political gain. During his 2008 speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama also told a story about his white grandmother and a black man at a bus stop to try to prove his point that America still clings to a racist past. He claimed his grandmother, Madelyn "Toot" Dunham, "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street." In fact, there was a single incident in which Dunham came home scared after being accosted by, as she had put it at the time, a "very aggressive" black panhandler while waiting for a bus in Waikiki. This wasn't any African-American passing her by on the street, as Obama made it seem. This was a large, menacing man who hassled her for money even after she gave him a dollar. She had reason to fear — not because he was black, but because he was a belligerent bum. Obama left all this out of his story. This was not some off-the-cuff anecdote. He spent a lot of time preparing his remarks for what was a highly promoted speech on race, knowing full well millions of voters would be tuning in on national TV. If he's willing to lie with cold calculation about his own family, what else is he capable of lying about?